As women we are raised and encouraged to meet the needs of others, and our culture maintains and reinforces this expectation of “woman as nurturer.”

First House: Your body, personality, and the traits you possess that are most noticeable and apparent to the outside world. This includes such things as temperament, leadership style, the ego, and the way you take initiative (or don’t take initiative). Second House: Your values and possessions, including your personal values and priorities, morals,

It may help you to visualize the other person’s emotions as a color or shape so that you can imagine blocking them, putting them in a box, walking the emotions out your front door, sending them out of a window, asking them to leave, or sealing yourself in love and light. It may also help you to name that annoying aspect of the person who is

These events demonstrate the transformation of core wounding by abandonment into experiences of being nurtured and establishing a sense of belonging.

What memories might be peeking out of your consciousness at this moment as you read my words? Allow yourself to be nostalgic. Take a moment to reflect back and write down in your journal memory impressions that you have of your childhood, both positive and negative. What do you notice about them? Which memories evoke more emotion from you now?

I encourage you to be willing to see people and things through the eyes of your heart instead of your ego mind.

I suggest that you take a private moment of quiet time when you feel yourself in a personal interaction with someone and you’re responding to an emotion that they have triggered within you. In that moment, inwardly promise yourself that you’ll attend to that part of your inner world later on in a private moment when you can look at it more closely

people may stay in an unfulfilling relationship (a metaphor for a hand on the hot stove) for so long that their emotions (nerve endings) become numb or even deadened. What started as a pang of warning becomes full-blown hurt that can numb you emotionally over time, given that you may have minimized or even ignored your intuition.

The Power Is Within You, that may be helpful to you: Life is a voyage of self-discovery. To me, to be enlightened is to go within and to know who and what we really are, and to know that we have the ability to change for the better by loving and taking care of ourselves. . . . When I talk about loving ourselves, I mean having a deep appreciation