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Moving Through Life
June 24, 2009
In case you're wondering why you haven't heard from me this week, we're in the process of moving from our home from Colorado to a new home in Montana....

Update on the Global Hug Tour
June 14, 2009
So, what's up with the Global Hug Tour? I think the most honest answer to that question is to explain that we're going through the same things in life...

Walking Through Scary Times
June 3, 2009
Companies are closing, pension accounts are being drained, unemployment is going up, folks are losing their homes and the bankruptcy rate is escalatin...

Today's Brilliance- by Scott Milford
May 27, 2009
Each week we select our favorite submission for Today's Brilliance from anyone who cares to contribute to our blog. (Details are available here.) This...

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Karen Brody

Karen helps people to experience the beautiful quality of deeply connective lovemaking in their work, relationships and creative life.

Healing is the application of loving to the places that hurt. ~ Ron & Mary Hulnick

If today were my last day on Earth and I could share 500 words of brilliance with the world, here are the important things I'd want to pass along to others...

Looking back on my life it's easy to see that all of it was perfect - that is, from here. It certainly didn't feel that way when I was crawling through hell to get to this side of heaven.

We all have stories of pain. In fact it seems to be that very pain that points us in the direction of what we're here to do. Look closely at where you hurt because under that pain lives a purpose and a mission.

Little did I know that the trauma and loss I experienced as a child and as a young woman was serving as a training ground for how to help others find their way out of darkness.

Whatever your struggle, your pain, your loss, know that there is something of value in all experience. And know --- really and truly -- that you are not what happens to you. You are so much more than that.

The first time I heard, "You are not what happens to you," my life shifted in an instant.
I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that what happened to me in my past, was not me -- not the essence of me. I was not a victim, nor would I live the life of a victim. The self-judgments that I'd allowed to define me and my choices, that I felt shackled to, began to release, and there was freedom inside of me for the very first time.

You also are not what happens to you. You are so much more magnificent! When you hold onto judging yourself for what happened, or judging someone for what they did to you, you carry the past like a clamp around your heart. Forgiveness frees you to give and to receive love - to joyously do what you came here to do.

I'm not suggesting that you forgive your actions or the actions of others. That is not your job. Rather, that you forgive how you judge those actions. Forgiveness isn't...