Tara Moorman, PhD, LPC, CPC
What the heck is, Practical Spirituality?
Practical Spirituality is not WHAT or WHO you believe (in) or don’t believe (in). It is not about your religion. It is not about what happens or doesn’t happen when we die.
None of that is my business. [Read more…] about Practical Spirituality
I’ll just jump right into this one.
I’ve been in an emotionally taxing situation in one of my personal relationships. I’ve had all the feelings – anger, sadness, hurt, guilt, and even shame. It’s been a bit of a bugger, I can tell you. I may love witnessing and helping others work through their junk, but that doesn’t mean I actually enjoy working through mine all the time. Sometimes, I’d rather crawl in a hole with a live cobra. I would also love to claim that I don’t have junk to work through anymore, that I’m somehow more evolved than that, but I would be handing you a stinking pile of BS. So, I’ll keep it to the truth instead: sometimes I hate doing the emotional heavy lifting that healing requires. [Read more…] about Abandoning the Self – Justification, Rationalization and Blame
I find myself thinking a lot about habit-patterns of energy. I am deeply interested in the habit-patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that humans develop around trauma, stress, and pain. I want to know how those habit-patterns grow and develop and often end up sabotaging our lives, and I seek to understand the process of moving out of those habit-patterns and ultimately developing a new, whole identity. You see, I believe that our habit-patterns are indicative of a fracture, a Soul Loss, if you will. [Read more…] about Habit-Patterns – A Lost Soul’s Magic
My Child Self has been scared recently…
Lately, my Creative Heart has been longing to write stories. I’ve always written, but over the past 30 years or so, most of my writing has been non-fiction – either work- or education-related. I started writing fiction again at the beginning of the year by entering the NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge. I enjoyed it immensely, and though I didn’t place, I loved my story. Despite all the positive emotions I felt, my writing practice fell apart. I entered a couple more, small contests, wrote daily for about a month, and slowly started the process of stopping. [Read more…] about Child’s Fear, Adult’s Sabotage
“We have to learn the art of stopping — stopping our thinking, our habit energies, our forgetfulness, the strong emotions that rule us…When we are mindful, touching deeply the present moment, the fruits are always understanding, acceptance, love, and the desire to relieve suffering and bring joy.” Thich Nhat Hanh, The Heart of the Buddha’s Teaching.
I discovered The Honolulu Mindfulness Community back in 2003, after completing my Master’s program in Counseling Psychology. My favorite professor had introduced me to the teachings of Thich Nhat Hanh, and after graduation I went on a search for like minded folks. [Read more…] about The Art of Stopping