ACIM Q&A Day: How to work with social anxiety and self-consciousness?

Anxiety, Healings

I’ve never considered myself to have social anxiety, but there are definitely times when I feel more outgoing than others. I’m naturally on the quiet side. I took the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (a personality indicator) years ago when I was in college.  I...

ACIM Q&A Day: When the ego screams “DEFEND YOURSELF!”, what to do?

Important Course Concepts

As I wrote about in my previous post, I have abundant opportunities to put ACIM into practice in my life.  A situation recently arose again where I had a choice: Do I want to be right or happy? Based on my previous experience, why stop forgiving when I’m on a roll? 🙂...

ACIM Q&A Day: What to do when you REALLY want to “correct” another person?

Important Course Concepts

I have recently been learning a great deal about what it really means to live “A Course in Miracles.” I’ve been specifically learning the difference between repeating the Course to myself as a reassurance, versus actually putting the principles into action...

ACIM Q&A Day: How to handle conflict when the ego wants to come out and “play?”

Important Course Concepts

Question: Other people’s egos appear to be knocking on my ego’s door, wanting it to come out and play – GRRR! I have been speaking my truth with two people in my life and their egos have just been ripping me apart. One person is completely ignoring...

ACIM Q&A Day: Job ick, bugs, and unhappiness… oh my! PART 1

Important Course Concepts

I am fortunate to have a loving, beautiful friend who also is really into “A Course in Miracles.”  As long as I’ve known Annie, she has struggled with every job she gets – she feels that there is usually something wrong with it, which often leads her to...

ACIM Q&A Day: How is the Course’s concept of forgiveness not blaming the victim?

Important Course Concepts

  Question: “I don’t understand how forgiveness in the Course is different than blaming the victim. I know that abusive people can, and have, misused the Course and other spiritual teachings to act from ego and hurt others. However, I still see in the...

ACIM Q&A Day: What self-talk helped you with anxiety?

Anxiety

Question:  I suffer from anxiety and depression. My question may sound dumb for someone practicing “A Course in Miracles” for 11 years but … for example … I get stuck mentally … I do very well at picking up on the fact that fear and/or...

“The light in you is too bright to fail”

Anxiety

These were the words my stepdad said to me as I lay flat out on the couch, incapacitated by anxiety, unable to eat for days, with dark anxiety-induced circles under my teary eyes. “The light in you is too bright to fail.” These words gave me hope and a...

I gave it to the Holy Spirit… Now what??

Important Course Concepts

The course emphasizes that we only need a tiny bit of willingness for that miracle – that shift in perception – to occur.  And this is true!  We’re asked to do so little. So we hand our situation over to the Holy Spirit, again and again. But we still feel stuck with...

Remember your willingness!

Important Course Concepts

Willingness is the key to happiness! Willingness is the foundation on which A Course in Miracles is built. It is the only building material we are asked to supply. The heart flowers on my website are reminders for willingness.  We so often forget that the Course...