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28 Aug

Hurricane Harvey Reveals a Beautiful Truth

We have been told who the enemies are for the past few years loud and clear. It’s the left. It’s the right. It is the press which is the enemy of the people because they are all bad. It’s the traditional government officials because they are useless. It’s the Whites. It’s the Blacks. It’s the Hispanics or the Immigrants who can’t be trusted. These are the enemies, and we must fight them at all cost. Hurricane Harvey mirrored…..

19 Jun

FEAR NEEDS AN ENEMY

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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…..

14 Mar

No One is to Blame for Your Fear

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FEAR seems to be running rampant these days. Whether it is fear of terrorists, “other” religions, immigrants, people whose skin color are different than ours, people who are wealthy, people who are poor, those who don’t speak our language, those from different countries, or those who belong to an opposing political party fear is everywhere. Fear always offers us an endless array of individuals and groups to lay blame at their feet for our fear or pain. But if…..

07 Mar

Interview on Dealing with Loss through Self-Love

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Here is my interview I did on The Conversation with Klarque Garrison on Survival Radio Network last week. We talked abut my first book How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live covering some of the gifts and lessons I learned while helping my best friend deal with terminal cancer. I also previewed a bit about my upcoming book The Heart of the Matter – A Workbook and Guide to Finding ur Back to Self-Love. This book…..

16 Jan

HEARTFELT REFLECTIONS ON THE LESSONS AND STRENGTH TO BE GAINED FROM GRIEF AND LOSS

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McClung muses on the spiritual insights learned during the last six months of her best friend’s life in this debut memoir. The author ends each chapter with resonant questions for readers to ponder. McClung has written a thoughtful think piece that also serves as a touching tribute to “one of my greatest teachers during the worst times of her life.” McClung has written a thoughtful think piece that also serves as a touching tribute to “one of my greatest teachers…..

09 Oct

KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW – “McCLUNG HAS WRITTEN A THOUGHTFUL THINK PIECE”

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KIRKUS INDIE REVIEW (Oct 2016) TITLE INFORMATION HOW LEARNING TO SAY GOODBYE TAUGHT ME HOW TO LIVE Joffre McClung BalboaPress (166pp.) $30.95 hardcover $12.99 paperback 8.99 e-book ISBN 978-1-5043-3909-4; September 25, 2015 CLICK HERE TO ORDER BOOK REVIEW McClung muses on the spiritual insights learned during the last six months of her best friend’s life in this debut memoir. When McClung, just emerging from a two-year grieving process over her mother, found out that her best friend, Rob, had stage…..

12 Jun

THE ONLY POWER STRONGER THAN HATE IS LOVE BUT IT TAKES REBELS TO MAKE THAT CHOICE.

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In my long life, I have seen many hateful acts, but it is the REBEL ACTS OF LOVE that changed my heart. The brave civil rights marchers of the 1960’s who yearned for fairness and justice. The courageous women who took to the streets in the 1970’s to demand their rights as equals to men. The outspoken gays who refused to stay in the closet in the 1980’s pressing the country to deal with AIDS ethically and with compassion. Those decades…..

22 Mar

Your Heart is the Most Powerful Weapon Known to Man

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The only thing more powerful than darkness and hatred is light and love. We have a choice today and every day to choose love and light. Don’t let your fear make that choice for you. Never is it more important than when we feel as if we are being devoured by the clouds of fear, intolerance, and hatred to turn our attention to the light. Some will shout that we must fight hate with hate to keep ourselves safe. They…..

23 Feb

WHY I WROTE THE BOOK

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Whenever I am asked what inspired me to write my book, How Learning to Say Goodbye Taught Me How to Live, I have to pause before answering. Many factors seemed to have conspired to get me to write this particular story. I have written in the past but usually screenplays or fictional stories. I enjoy writing not just for the creative outlet, but it gave me a chance to live inside my characters in situations removed from my daily…..

13 Dec

Love is the only answer to fear