Posts by Susan Schueler
A Time For Everything Under Heaven
I recall taking a class at my undergraduate alma mater, Niagara University, called Life, Death and Rebirth. Interestingly enough, it was taught by a Vincentian Priest, and a Ph D who ran our Theater Department. This may seem like an unlikely pair, but for the course it actually made perfect sense. Although this class explained…
Read MoreTime to Say Goodbye
Some goodbyes are fast and unexpected; our hearts literally feel like they have been cracked open from the pain. We have little time to prepare ourselves, or even consider how life in the future might look, because we simply did not see the winds of change blowing in the direction they decided to go. Yet…
Read MoreAre You Grateful for Who You Have Become?
The holidays can be a time for reflection, when we take the time to slow ourselves down, even for just a minute, before the rush begins. Consider for a moment, where we were last year at this time. What our worries centered around. What relationships were most prominent in our lives. The challenges that we…
Read MoreAccepting All That Life Sends Us
I recently had a client reach out to me asking, “Am I going to start feeling joy and contentment in my life? With all the bad things that have been happening, I don’t know how much more of this anxiety I can take.” My heart went out to him because this is something everyone of…
Read MoreHow to Throw Your Own “Hail Mary Pass”
I recall sitting in church as a child listening to the congregation praying “Hail Mary full of grace, the Lord is with thee…” and in my youthful mind, it conjured the image of Mary floating around Jerusalem like a ballerina. It wasn’t until many years later that I realized that “grace” and “graceful” meant two…
Read MoreIsn’t it Time to Clean Your Room Child?
Being a sensitive is like walking a fine line between blessings and curses. What can be an amazing “gift” that gives us a super power of sorts when gaining insight on people and situations, can also feel like a hardship when we don’t know how to navigate this level of sensitivity. All sensitives have an…
Read MoreAre You Creating the Life You Desire or Most Fear?
We experience the power of the unseen world every day of our lives. Consider the love we feel in our hearts when we look at our child or a beloved pet. The grief and pain that can make us inconsolable when someone we love suddenly leaves our life or dies. Or even the simple magic…
Read MoreHow to Have a Lust for Life!
When I first moved to California, one of my favorite things to do was to go to the local bookstore and “go sideways,” as I would call it. This simply meant, wandering through the racks of books, with no agenda, and my head tipped to the side so I could see all the various titles.…
Read MoreLeader of the Pack
Here I sit in my meditation chair, our morning ritual, one dog on my left hip, one dog to my right, the cat gracefully balanced on the arm of the chair with us, and the newest addition to my family, curled tightly in a ball on her dog bed next to us. Honestly, this is…
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