Welsh Tradition Lecture
by
Ed Buczynski
Introduction
by
Carol Bulzone of Enchantments
[This article was originally published in the Oct. 2001 column An Elder Speaks, on the Enchantments Inc. website. It is republished here with the gracious permission of Lord Tuan.]
YOU ARE IN FOR A RARE TREAT!
In the early 70’s, Eddie Buczynski brought our coven’s Gardnerian Book of Shadows to [...]
Academic researchers, psychologists, writers, college students and others often ask incest and molestation survivors to volunteer for their research. Survivors are typically eager to share their stories, despite the pain this can cause. We want to educate the public about the prevalence of sexual abuse, its prevention, and its effects on the lives of survivors. [...]
The poet John Keats said, “truth is beauty, and beauty truth.” It takes great courage to tell the absolute truth, from the depths of your soul. It takes even more courage to show that truth to the world. For survivors of incest, molestation, and other abuse, the challenge is magnified a thousandfold. These poets have overcome shame, powerlessness, threats, fear, even danger to their lives, to share their truth. The act of taking your emotions, your pain, the ugliness of your past and shaping it into art, of expressing your soul’s truth, is incredibly powerful. It frees our minds and spirits.
Trauma of any kind has a long lasting effect on individuals and it is important that PTSD (Post Trauma Stress Disorder) survivors know that there is help and to be ok with asking for help. Shame plays a large role in PTSD and many victims feel that they are weak because they can’t get [...]
Positive affirmations, when worded optimally and charged with emotions, are able to tap into the boundless power of the subconscious mind. There are many exercises and techniques that can help you achieve the benefits of positive affirmations, by putting the subconscious mind to work for you.
1. Repetition
Constantly repeating the positive affirmations will become a good habit that results in self-improvement. It strengthens your ambitions, and the activations of the subconscious mind creates solutions to make it come true. By repeating your affirmations several times a day in present tense, they will soon become an extension of your daily thoughts, making it easier for your subconscious mind to work on.
By: Lael Johnson
Most people have mixed feelings about feeling and expressing anger. Various influences suggest everything from practicing extreme self-control, holding it all in (end result: stoicism) to showing no boundaries about sharing anger at all(end result: anarchy). Finding the middle ground is the place where you can communicate feelings and the facts of a [...]
By: David Ferruolo
Sometimes life can be very confusing. We strive to walk a spiritual path, being accepting and forgiving. We smile and send blessings unselfishly to all that cross our path. We meditate and pray, but how do we deal with negative people when their wrath is directed at us?
We are all [...]
(Information on manners culled from years of syndicated columns by Judith Martin, “Miss Manners” and the example of my beloved grandmother)
Holidays are often difficult for survivors. We feel sad that our families didn’t match the big, happy Brady Bunch stereotypes we thought everyone else had. If we are preparing a feast or celebration, we get [...]
My husband and I owned a pagan bookstore on the East Coast, which became a teen hangout. Inevitably, one of the girls confided that she was being sexually abused. Have you thought about what you would do in this situation? Your first impulse may be to call the police. Call your local rape crisis [...]
Goddess™: On the proliferation of goddess imagery in popular culture
by Sandra Mizumoto Posey, Ph.D.
Change happens slowly, but when it finally hits, the years of individual strides and steps culminate in a burst of change. Trouble is, change doesn’t always take effect in the ways we’d hoped.
When the “goddess movement” was birthed out of feminism in [...]