A friend recently asked me how I heard about a particular movie I shared in a past email. And I realized that her question was a wonderful segue into today’s blog post where I want to share not only how I find the movies I write about, but also how movies can be a fun…
DetailsHealing From Grief And Loss- The Importance Of Being In The Present Moment I first met Emil Caschetta in the fall of 2012 when he joined my very first A Course in Miracles (ACIM) group which I facilitated for about a year. Emil was a regular at these classes and we continued to stay in…
Details“My name is Shanti, and shanti means inner peace, but I don’t know where my peace has gone!” These were the words my mom expressed to one of our family’s earliest spiritual teachers. At that time, she was in her mid-40s, and negotiating some medical challenges. She was also grieving the loss of Mataji*- her…
DetailsToday marks the Hindu festival of Dussehra- which commemorates the celebration of Lord Rama (an incarnation of Lord Vishnu) defeating Ravana- the demon king of Lanka who abducted Sita (wife of Rama and herself also an incarnation of Goddess Lakshmi). According to mythology, when Lord Rama kills Ravana- who has ten heads- he immediately dies…
DetailsI am so happy to share that this month Coaching for Inner Peace celebrates its second birthday. ? How it all began and our mission About two years ago, the name ‘Coaching for Inner Peace’ was ‘given’ to me in a moment of inspiration. My thinking mind had nothing to do with coming up with…
DetailsOne of my Buddhist teachers at the local Rochester Zen Center once shared that whenever we visit with family or if they visit us, we can see this as ‘grist for the mill.’ What he meant was that family – especially close family, like parents, siblings, spouse/partner, and children- offer us a unique opportunity to…
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