Do you feel like you’re rocking your life? Are you happy with where you are, the results you are getting, what you are accomplishing, the things you are giving your time and energy to? Do you feel mostly centered and peaceful? If you have intentions or goals, are you making progress toward them? Or do you find yourself in resistance … Read More
Healing vs. Sickness: How to Break Up with Your Dysfunctional Relationship with the Body
By Kelly Russell
Sickness is one of those areas of teaching that many students of A Course in Miracles take serious offense to. It’s like, yes, ok, the world is an illusion; yes, fine, I need to forgive my brother so that I can release myself; yes, I get it, we are all the light of the world as created by God; yes, … Read More
Election Day: Peace or Attack?
By Kelly Russell
It’s Kelly Russell here to give you the 411 about exercising our power of choice – peace versus attack. As Election Day and Veteran’s Day both fell within the last week in the U.S., this blog is a live teaching I did on that subject at the Teachers of God Foundation’s Friday A Course in Miracles group last week. I … Read More
How A Course in Miracles Healed My Anxiety
By Kelly Russell
What is anxiety anyway? As a psychotherapist and transformational coach, I see and treat symptoms of it every day. Anxiety sucks. Right out loud. The end. That’s my clinical assessment. At best, for some, it takes the form of a low-level undercurrent of worry; at worst, for others, it means debilitating, paralyzing panic, accompanied by very real feelings of reliving … Read More
Coming With Empty Open Arms to God
By Chris Casanovas
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Well… Isn’t That Special? Relationship Coaching by Spirit vs. the Ego
By Kelly Russell
So, what the heck does A Course in Miracles mean by talking about our relationships being special like it’s a bad thing? Aren’t our relationships with our closest peeps supposed to be special? Isn’t that the whole point, for crying out loud? I am a coach, teacher and minister of the Course and have been a student of it for … Read More
Life on Planet Miracle: Answers to Questions About How to Live in the World
By Kelly Russell
If you are called to A Course in Miracles, and it feels like Truth to you, and yet you sometimes struggle with trying to be a student of it while dealing with the bullshit of life in the world (and I’m not just addressing new Course students here – I have been doing both of those things for 16 years … Read More
Do You Have the Courage to Be Free?
By Kimberly Cartwright
“We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.” – Attributed to an unnamed Hopi elder, Hopi Nation Everyone we admire and respect, who made significant contributions to our world in terms of peace and freedom were and are radicals, heretics and maladjusted. Think about Jesus, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, The Dalai Llama, Frederick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, Mother Theresa, … Read More
Planning with Spirit vs. Planning with Ego: How to Stay Centered When Your Plans Go Awry
By Kelly Russell
They say that we make plans and God laughs. They also say that if you fail to plan, you plan to fail. Is it me, or do the “they” that say everything seem to be contradicting themselves? I’ma just go out on a limb here and call “they” the ego mind, since trying to convince us all that opposing thoughts … Read More
Relationships 101: How to Handle Conflict and Recognize the Guidance of Spirit vs. the Ego
By Kelly Russell
In this realm of higher learning known as A Course in Miracles, I think of the 600-page Text as the required reading, the 365-lesson Workbook as the study guide, and the Manual for Teachers as the handbook for anyone who chooses to be a teacher of God using this particular form of the universal curriculum. All three are important components … Read More