Does your ability to have compassion come with conditions? I will have compassion for those caught in the Opioid crisis but not for those who struggle with Crack or Alcohol addiction after all no one made them into addicts. It is their fault. I will have compassion for my neighbor who lost her job and do all I can to help her out but not for those who are on welfare or who panhandle for money. They just need to…..
To have your head in harmony with your heart you must have your emotions in balance. To maintain emotional balance, you can’t decide some emotions are more important than others or that some emotions are deserving of your attention and others are not. You can’t let your mind tell you which ones matter. It is easy to own the big emotionally eruptions that happen inside of us. When that happens, most of us will go within and do the work……
Most of us have heard the saying: Love your neighbors as you love yourself. If we look around, it is pretty clear with all that is going on in the world, that we don’t love our neighbors. So does that mean we don’t love ourselves? I would say YES. When you get down to what it actually means to love yourself, there can be no reasonable answer other than we don’t love ourselves and it is being mirrored…..
“America the Beautiful – Land of the Free and Home of the Brave.” Land of the Free We know by heart many of the freedoms listed in our Bill of Rights –the freedom of religion, the freedom to bear arms, the freedom of assembly, the freedom of the press, the right to vote for all, and more. We may fight over their meaning or how to always implement them, but we take these freedoms very seriously. However, let’s take…..
“In this self-help guide, McClung (How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, 2015) encourages readers to do “inner work” through meditation in order to facilitate spiritual healing. This short, intimate, and interactive guide In this self-help guide, McClung (How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, 2015) encourages readers to do “inner work” through meditation in order to facilitate spiritual healing. This short, intimate, and interactive guide aims to help the reader explore,…..
Fear only requires one thing – and enemy to focus upon. The man who shot a congressman and others focused his fear on Republicans. The cop who shot a man reaching for his wallet in his car focused his fear upon black men. The man who knifed and killed people in Portland focused his fear upon Muslims. The group of young men who beat and tied to a fence a young gay man focused their fear upon gays. The people who…..
Too often we look outside of ourselves for proof of our value or worth. Do you look to others to offer you the appreciation for a job well done? Do you dissect the words offered or sometimes withheld as evidence to whether you are good enough? Do you constantly look to others to make you feel good about yourself? And are you disappointed or outraged when they do not? You may demand that others recognize your value or…..
The Heart of the Matter offers a lifelong process for learning and acting from self-love. Joffre McClung’s The Heart of the Matter is a thoughtful, thought-provoking book that challenges individuals to live their lives anchored in the truth of self-love. Through interesting discussions, challenging questions, and daily meditations and affirmations, the book offers a course that anyone can take to find self-acceptance. This work is clearly and simply organized. There are three parts. The first part consists of…..
BLUEINK EDITORIAL REVIEW -MAY 2017 “To appreciate The Heart of the Matter: A Workbook and Guide to Finding Your Way Back to Self-Love is to understand what it’s not: a memoir, study of psychological issues, or clinical, therapeutic tome. It is, instead, an interactive workbook based on spiritual author Joffre McClung’s self-discoveries, which began when her best friend was dying of cancer and culminated in her first book, written to heal from her devastating loss, How Learning to Say Goodbye…..
How quickly do you forgive yourself for mistakes? I recently was going through a rough patch for a couple of weeks. During that time, I inadvertently throw out all my marketing materials for my new book, THE HEART OF THE MATTER. When I realized what I had done, I felt very disappointed in myself. How could I be so dumb? How could I just throw money out in the trash! These were the voices that began to loop…..
