Byron Katie Helps Release Your Need to Be Right & Have Other People’s Approval So You Can Love What Is

Byron Katie Helps Release Your Need to Be Right & Have Other People’s Approval So You Can Love What Is

by Tera Warner

If you’ve ever felt too fat, too poor, too tired, too busy, too beaten down, shaken up or tossed inside out, then you know suffering. You may have noticed that when you tried to blame your bank account balance, your ex-boyfriend or the size of your thighs, things didn’t really change much.

And if, in spite of all your kind thoughts and good deeds and the very best of intentions you still find yourself suffering from time to time, then lend an ear, pull out your pen and paper and get ready to do the work.

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Did You Know WISH Has a Theme Song? “If Wishes Were Horses”

Did You Know WISH Has a Theme Song?
“If Wishes Were Horses”

- by Tera Warner

Last year we had the lovely Stacey Terry write and sing this call then produce it with Miles Littman! We haven’t taken the time to bring it out yet this year, but would love to share our little jingle and hear your thoughts about what you think of it!

The idea of calling it If Wishes Were Horses came from the interview that I did last year with Marla Cilley, “The Fly Lady.” At the end of our conversation she mentioned an old poem called If Wishes Were Horses.

[Download this call as an MP3 here.]

I always get particularly choked up when I read the lyrics:

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Jesus is a Brand of Jeans: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising Affects the Way Women Feel

Jesus is a Brand of Jeans: Jean Kilbourne on How Advertising Affects the Way Women Feel

- by Jean Kilbourne

A recent ad for Thule car-rack systems features a child in the backseat of a car, seatbelt on. Next to the child, assorted sporting gear is carefully strapped into a child’s carseat. The headline says: ‘We Know What Matters to You.’ In case one misses the point, further copy adds: ‘Your gear is a priority.’ Another ad features an attractive young couple in bed. The man is on top of the woman, presumably making love to her. However, her face is completely covered by a magazine, open to a double-page photo of a car. The man is gazing passionately at the car. The copy reads, ‘The ultimate attraction.’

These ads are meant to be funny. Taken individually, I suppose they might seem amusing or, at worst, tasteless. As someone who has studied ads for a long time, however, I see them as part of a pattern: just two of many ads that state or imply that products are more important than people. Ads have long promised us a better relationship via a product: buy this and you will be loved. But more recently they have gone beyond that proposition to promise us a relationship with the product itself: buy this and it will love you. The product is not so much the means to an end, as the end itself.

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Dr. Lissa Rankin Offers Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves

Dr. Lissa Rankin Offers Scientific Proof We Can Heal Ourselves

by Dr. Lissa Rankin

There’s a lot of “woo woo” talk out there in the land of metaphysics, the law of attraction, and mind/body medicine about our capacity for self-healing. As an open-minded physician, I’ve always been fascinated by this concept. But as a skeptical scientist at heart, I’ve always had this little voice in the back of my head that says, “Bullshit. Prove it.”

My curiosity about whether we really have the power to cure our own bodies fueled an inquiry into the medical literature, not just in the mind/body medicine journals, but in the New England Journal of Medicine and in labs from the halls of Harvard. What I found blew my mind and evolved into my next book Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself  (Hay House, 2013). The book is broken down into the truths of what I wasn’t taught in medical school, and what I have learned since then.

Truth #1  You can believe yourself well.

I had no clue that this was SO true until I started digging deep into the medical literature. What I found cracked me open, and I want to share some of it with you here. Read more »

Meet Somaly Mam: From Horror to Hope and Heroism

Meet Somaly Mam: From Horror to Hope and Heroism

In this moment, I shudder to think of the minutes, hours, weeks of my life that have been spent worrying about the size of my thighs or the contents of my colon. I struggle to consider the fact that while I have spent so much time worrying about the ratio of enzymes, antioxidants and omega fatty acids in my smoothie, a 5-year old girl was being brutally raped and tortured in Cambodia.

I know my name.

I know how old I am.

While my parents, like most, dished out a few curve balls along the way, I had my Strawberry Shortcake bedroom sheets and a place called home that felt like one. I was free to speak, and even get a bit sassy once in a while without severe repercussions. I could play, dream, learn, eat and walk in the streets without any consideration that these things would ever be threatened. And indeed, they never were.

It has been said that long after a person has given up on themselves, when their will to live for their own right has been lost, you will still find within them a willingness to help another. You will live to help another, even after you’ve stopped living for yourself.

If there is one woman who proves this to be true, it’s Somaly Mam. Read more »