Suzanne E. Harrill

Q & A Interview

Spring 2013

Suzanne and Rodney Harrill share their watermedia art May 5, 2013 at the Art Trunk Show at Unity Houston Bookstore. Suzanne creates Color Healing Paintings, each with a seed thought to affirm your Self. Click on painting to see watermedia gallery.

This Month's Issue:

May Is As Good a Month as Any to Make New Year's Resolutions

By Suzanne E. Harrill

Recipes - Almost Vegan

Your Phone vs. Your Heart

By Barbara L. Fredrickson

Losing My Religion for Equality

by President Jimmy Carter

The Power of Writing
Your Healing Story

by Vicky Bowker Jeter, RSc.P

Goodies

Enlighten Up

Greetings from the Editor:

Planting Seeds in the Garden of Your Mind

Seeing flowers blooming, the grass turning green and the new growth on trees is a joyous time. Spring reminds me of the cycle of a new beginning where seeds, well planted, begin to blossom. This issue is full of information to help you understand yourself as you plant good intentions in the garden of your mind.

Fortunate Blessings,

Suzanne

Self-Awareness

May Is As Good a Month as Any
to Make New Year's Resolutions

By Suzanne E. Harrill

How many New Year's resolutions have you kept so far? Did you pass on even making some in January because you don’t like to promise yourself something that you know you won’t deliver? It’s not too late. May is a perfect time to make some resolutions, as is any other month. Made wisely, resolutions move you in the direction of your highest desires for your highest good.

Springtime with new growth in nature is a great time to look at your own growth and plant some seeds in the garden of your mind...

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Recipes

Almost Vegan

Peanut Butter Surprise

Greek Layer Dip

Hummus (Chick-Pea Dip)

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Special Offer

Seed Thoughts for Loving Yourself

By Suzanne E. Harrill

MONTHLY ON LINE AFFIRMATIONS.  Affirmations to support self-esteem and spiritual growth now available in monthly installments. From Seed Thoughts for Loving Yourself, Cultivating the Garden of Your Mind Day by Day.

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Inspirational

Losing My Religion for Equality

by President Jimmy Carter

Women and girls have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God.

I HAVE been a practising Christian all my life and a deacon and Bible teacher for many years. My faith is a source of strength and comfort to me, as religious beliefs are to hundreds of millions of people around the world. So my decision to sever my ties with the Southern Baptist Convention, after six decades, was painful and difficult. It was, however, an unavoidable decision when the convention's leaders, quoting a few carefully selected Bible verses and claiming that Eve was created second to Adam and was responsible for original sin, ordained that women must be "subservient" to their husbands and prohibited from serving as deacons, pastors or chaplains in the military service.

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Personal Growth

Your Phone vs. Your Heart

By Barbara L. Fredrickson

Can you remember the last time you were in a public space in America and didn’t notice that half the people around you were bent over a digital screen, thumbing a connection to somewhere else?

Most of us are well aware of the convenience that instant electronic access provides. Less has been said about the costs. Research that my colleagues and I have just completed, to be published in a forthcoming issue of Psychological Science, suggests that one measurable toll may be on our biological capacity to connect with other people...

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Spiritual Growth

The Power of Writing Your Healing Story

by Vicky Bowker Jeter, RSc.P

I have been fortunate to have Suzanne as a key member of my personal support system to heal childhood wounds and transform my adult life, as needed, over the past 30 years. Very early in our relationship, Suzanne encouraged me to begin journal writing the significant challenges and “ah-ha” moments as my journey to change my life unfolded. Over time, this one tool has borne out to be totally life changing. My notes and journal entries gradually became potent seeds for stories and articles. Today, those stories and articles have become my first published book, Call Me Victoria: Life Poems and Stories from Trial to Triumph.

     My consistency with the process of the raw writing, purely for the purpose of reflection and processing my emotions in moments of my experiences was a pivotal key to my receiving the greatest life-changing gifts it has had to offer...

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Enlighten Up   --    Humor

Senior Humor Jokes

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Goodies

A Stroke of Insight

Gratitude HD - Moving Art™

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