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Get organized with Charla Dury
[caption id="attachment_4945" align="alignright" width="142"] Charla Dury[/caption] By Barbara Steingas Charla Dury’s life experiences led her toward clean organization early in her adult life. Needing to stay afloat financially during challenging times as a teen parent, Charla turned to her mom, who had great organizational skills. Learning through experience provided the ability to see the big picture and create an organizational plan and detailed budget. Charla discovered she was able to get a lot done by implementing the organizational tools she put in place. Her friends and family noticed, too. They admired what Charla was able to accomplish and she became their go-to person for advice in the area of personal organization and time management. They were so pleased with the results they experienced that that began to refer...
November in a Nutshell
By Carlie Currie In honor of Mind Key’s third anthology, Tempest: Life Upturned, the theme of November has focused on riding out the storms of our lives that can brew during this season. Although this time of year is often seen as a preparation for the happiness of holidays, it can often bring about stress and turbulence. However, sometimes a sense of misdirection can lead us to learning more about ourselves and can be an opportunity for growth. The first theme of this month was mental health awareness. In Tamara’s article, “Art Therapy to Treat Mental Illness” art therapy is used as a creative outlet to cope with mental illness and stress. In addition, her article “How Mental Illness Affects Family Dynamics,” discusses the impact of...
Paying it Forward – volunteering time and experience
My young family (Step Dad, Mom, little brother, me and our son) right before my high school graduation. I was a teen parent. While my husband is the father of all of my boys, I had our first child when I was 15 and we didn't get married until I was 22. I attended a school for teen moms during my pregnancy and the semester after I had our son. After returning to mu home school for a year and a half, I graduated and went on to college with the help and support of my mom and step dad. While being a teen parent was difficult, I thank God for that experience. That broadening of my horizons. The flip flop in my world view. The paradigm shift. The...
Waking up motivated and staying that way – Tips and Tricks from Arthur and Alex
I know lists are my greatest tool. With weekdays and weekends being so packed at my house, if I don't make a list for my days, I will inevitably fail at getting all I want done. Lists are my friend and knowing that Arthur and Alex suggest them makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. ************************************ I don't know about you but when I wake up in the morning my eyes are totally unable to open fully. It didn't use to be that way but now that I am older some things just don't work as well as they used to. Know what I mean? But this has been a blessing in disguise for me and whether you are the same or not, the lessons I learned from it has...
Global Event – The Story Triangle with Marisa Goudy Wednesday May 11th
Storytelling is a form of creative release. Join Marisa at her Story Triangle webinar tomorrow. You have good work to share with your community. You want to build and audience and build a business. You're on a mission to make this world more beautiful, bearable, and bold. It's time to become a stronger, more confident storyteller. … That’s how I open my invitation to the Story Triangle webinar. Does this describe you too? Yes? In that case, I hope you can join me for the free online class coming up at 1 PM ET on Wednesday, May 11. To watch live, please visit: http://marisagoudy.com/story-triangle-webinar-2 This is a live encore presentation of the webinar I offered last month. If you joined me then or watched the replay and enjoyed it, please share the event...
In a Nutshell: All about the Darkness
Darkness has always been associated with the scary, frightening or evil. The light, on the other hand, seems to represent goodness, comfort and ease. Mind Key writer, Rebecca Godina sums it up in her blog Embrace the Dark, when she said: "We have been taught to fear the dark. After all, our myths inform us that is where the monsters lurk."But what of those peaceful moments at night? Those sweet dreams, or midnight trysts?Destruction is often represented by darkness, Rebecca said, and destruction represents change, and change can be scary. But it doesn't have to be this way."Imagine how much more painful the process of transformation would be if it was done in the full light of day," Rebecca said.After all, in Three Reasons to Love...
Why I am a part of Mind Key?
I’m part of several clubs or groups, each with interests that are pretty narrow – ghost hunters, equestrians, genealogists, therapeutic riding instructors. Mind Key isn’t like that, Mind Key is unique. Just look at the members, could you find a more diverse group? Writers, bloggers, artists, nutritionists, poets, healers, jewelry makers, cupcake bakers, collage makers. Here is a group whose most unifying aspect is their uniqueness. Am I making myself clear, ‘cause I feel I just ran in a circle? I innately know that we all have a singular goal, to better ourselves and the world, but we are moving there on different paths. There’s camaraderie when we meet, comfortableness when we exchange ideas. ...
How Mind Key began
I began Mind Key the Novel as a writer exploring the illuminated spaces in my mind. It began after a focusing session where I gave substance and vision to the persistent lump in my throat….That's when things began to change. I always knew I had the ability to manifest my reality through my art, but this novel allowed me to do more than just create, it allowed me to see the world around me more clearly. My guides and the faeries in my life began revealing themselves through the words on the page. They encouraged me to take chances, be daring and follow my dreams.And so I did.Arwork my Michelle FarenciWhat I never expected was the overwhelming response this endeavor would cultivate. People began rallying...
Mind Key the Novel: A Review
After the disappointments of a sour break up and the troublesome relationship with her abusive father, Noelle heads to the Jersey Shore. It’s supposed to be another brief vacation with her mother, dull and numb after the Noelle Ricci as drawn by Michelle Farencirecent heartaches. Still, the rumbling waves of the Atlantic shore make Noelle feel at home, as if she’s belonged there all of her life. But it’s not just the salty breeze and the soft wet sand under her feet that draw her in. Arden, a boy vacationing a few apartments away, captures her attention and before she knows it— her heart. The two spend only a couple of days together but somehow she feels as if she’s known him for years. It...
In a Nutshell: Past Lives, Parallel Lives, and Future Lives
The idea of past, parallel and future lives almost seems ridiculous to a metaphysical heart surgeon who believes in the power of the present. However, who we are and who we are to become is affected greatly by how we view the broad spectrum of our life (or lives).“Our bodies live this current lifetime and label it the present, but the continuum of our entire existence isn’t limited to the restraint of time,” Tamara Rokicki says in The connection of parallel lives. “The past is what we see when we look as far back to the day we were born. Our future is the years we have yet to live until we reach the end of our journey. But is there more?”In Past life regressions...
Community as a source of connection
The Mind Key Community is not only a source of talent, information and guidance, but it is a community of support. Each member believes that some form of connectedness is important for our journey as human beings.The method of connection to community differs greatly from person to person. Community is more than just the sum of the individual relationships within it, and as a whole functions as a higher vibrational energy.“Humans crave (and need) to be connected to each other, to the environment and to community,” writer Charla Dury said. Charla enjoys sharing her life and her views on life through her writing, using her blog as a place to open dialogue and stay connected to others.Healer Vera Remes volunteers. She also stays connected through...
Welcome to the New Mind Key
Once simply a novel, Mind Key has blossomed into The Mind Key Project - a hub of knowledge and resources, a community of practitioners and artists, and a calendar of events aligned with connecting people with each other and with their goals and dreams. Why “Mind Key”? The term was chosen because we each have the potential within to create the life we want. There’s no healing, no reality, no dream that is beyond our reach… but finding the resources to bring these things to fruition can be difficult. Especially in a world full of “nos,” “can’ts” and “impossible.” It is my belief that nothing is impossible, if only the space is created for it to happen. That space begins within our own bodies, our minds and...
Core Groups
A term that’s been floating through my mind lately is “core.”Whether an apple core, the body’s core, or the core of the earth, “core” is defined as “the central, innermost, or most essential part of anything.”There’s also “corps,” or “a group of persons associated or acting together: the diplomatic corps; the press corps.”Although pronounced the same way, the two terms are rarely connected. However, they are undoubtedly part of each other. For example, the etymology of both words seem to indicate that they derived from the Latin word for body, “corpus.” From there both terms made their way into Old French and Middle English before they arrived at their current definitions.I find this interesting and significant because a core of people can create the backbone...
Where is our power? In the end result, or the journey?
My friend, Tara Lesko, works in a Northern New Jersey school that focuses on alternative learning methods (my own words). The followings was written in response to goal versus process oriented methods of teaching and learning.On a personal note, I’ve found that being too focused on the end goal has the distasteful result of disappointment when in fact much has been gained. I think about my career changes, failed businesses, and other endeavors that never came to fruition. Even my graduate degree is considered a failure by some because I’m not currently using it to make money. However, if I discount these life events as failures because they did not manifest as expected (which brings me to another topic - whose expectation did they fail...
Why Mind Key?
I began the Mind Key endeavor because on my path of self-discovery I lost my way. Haven’t we all at some point? I let bad relationships and bad situations break me down. I let old programming rule my life when I should have broken the records long ago. I used to hear the faeries clearly, but once I lost that connection it took time for me to hear them again. Only once I realized how broken I truly was could healing begin. I went the regular MD route. Which is a wonderful and necessary option - except when it doesn’t help. I began seeing naturopathic doctor, Doni Wilson, and she taught me more than I could hope to understand about my body. I began taking...
What is “Mind Key”?
Once simply a novel, Mind Key has blossomed into The Mind Key Project - a hub of knowledge and resources, a community of practitioners, and a calendar of events aligned with bringing people together with their goals and dreams.Why “Mind Key”? The term was chosen because we each have the potential within to create the life we want. There’s no healing, no reality, no dream that is beyond our reach… but finding the resources to bring these things to fruition can be difficult. Especially in a world full of “nos,” “can’ts” and “impossible.”It is my belief that nothing is impossible, if only space is created for it. That space begins within our own bodies, our minds and our hearts. “Mind Key,” the Novel is a...
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