Summer 2010

Enjoyment

“I pay attention to the simple things in life that give me enjoyment. I choose to enjoy my day, even if something unexpected comes along that throws me off center. One difficult moment does not ruin my whole day. I do one thing each day that brings me pleasure and enjoyment.“

-- from Seed Thoughts for Loving Yourself
by Suzanne Harrill, M.Ed.

This Month's Issue:

Catch Yourself Enjoying A Moment

By Suzanne E. Harrill

"Power Up" Your Environment

By Ute Lawrence

Eulogy for My Mother

by Dr. James (Jimmy) E. McReynolds

How Chewing Gum Saved My Life

By Vicky Bowker Jeter

Wrestling Our Compulsions

By Mary O’Mallory

Goodies

Enlighten Up

Suzanne E. Harrill

For over 25 years, Suzanne has facilitated the growth and awareness of many people through counseling, writing, teaching, and professional speaking. On a personal note, Suzanne has been married since 1966, has three grown daughters, and is a grandmother. She enjoys watercolor painting and creating original stained glass pieces.

Greetings from the Editor:

New Book

It gives me great pleasure to tell you about my new book, The Harrill Solution – Secrets of Successful Relationships Revealed, release date September 30, 2010. Learn to create the relationships you deserve and discover ways to transform your current relationships. How? Build self-awareness; use challenging relationships to see and heal your own issues, discover your spiritual purpose. If you are single and seeking a new relationship, married and wish you weren’t, want to upgrade a stuck-in-a rut relationship, or want to be happy without a relationship, the solution in each scenario is the same. Become the person you always wanted to marry.

This comprehensive, how-to book teaches ways to know self, to use challenging situations to mirror your own lessons, to help heal an estranged relationship, or to transform a traditional relationship into a self-actualizing, enlightened one. There are secrets for everyone - if single, there are dating-tips, if ready to divorce, learn the difference between completing versus avoiding lessons, or if with a life partner, discover how to create a long-term, conscious relationship.

This fall I will be creating book signing parties in people’s homes. If you want to create a party contact me at seharrill@gmail.com.

Fortunate Blessings,

Suzanne

Self-Growth

Catch Yourself Enjoying A Moment

By Suzanne E. Harrill

Joy brings more light into our lives. No matter the circumstances you have drawn into your life, pay attention when you catch yourself smiling and enjoying the small stuff. As we learn to focus on the simple pleasures already happening, the easier it is to let go of allowing the unpleasant things to spoil our day. It lightens us every time we enjoy a flower or sunset, hug a loved one, say hi to a smiling neighbor, pet our dog or cat, or make eye contact with a child at the grocery store. This joy in the moment transfers to building a positive mindset, which affects how we live our day. Let us remember...

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Personal Growth

"Power Up" Your Environment to Support "YOU"
Simply and Unclutter

By Ute Lawrence

For many years, I have been on a journey of discovery. Discovery of the self, my environments and beyond. It has been a journey of continuous learning, which has led me to the most exciting revelation that every single human being has - it is within - the power to be who he or she wants to be. Most of us are nowhere near our true potential.

This revelation in itself filled me with the passion to discover how we can go about being the person we want to be, having what we want to have, doing what we want to do and achieve our life goals, no matter what our present circumstances...

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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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Eulogy for Lena Mae Brewer McReynolds,
My Mother

by Dr. James (Jimmy) E. McReynolds

The earthly tent that mom lived in has been destroyed.

In the Bible, “tent” reminds us of Israel’s wilderness experience. For 40 years Israel lived in tents. Israel was not allowed to settle down and establish roots. She was always on the move. The address was not fixed and her homes never were secured on foundations.

We live in an “earthly tent.” Our roots are not permanent. Mom told us, “Life is short. Enjoy your life now.” None of us are permanent residents on earth. No building, no amount of money, no status, no power can make us happy...

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Spirituality

How Chewing Gum Saved My Life: Tale of a Pre-Teen Addict

By Vicky Bowker Jeter

This is the autobiographical story of how I learned, first-hand, that the disease of Addiction is about lack of stability in environments leading to dysfunctional adaptive control behaviors that are destructive, regardless of the vehicle the addiction manifests in.

I grew up in a home with three older brothers and two alcoholic parents. Regardless of the truth that we loved each other in my family, I learned very quickly that, no matter how you shake it, active addiction in a person's behavior (meaning, for example, an alcoholic is drinking) equals random chaos in the house--anything can happen at any time and probably will...

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Self-Growth

Wrestling Our Compulsions

By Mary O’Mallory

When we make the all-too-familiar commitment to wrestle our compulsions into submission, in the long run, it never seems to work the way we want it to. Could it be that we are barking up the wrong tree? Could it be that there is a new way of working with them that brings true and lasting healing?

In order to discover this way, we first need to understand that we are all compulsive to some degree. A compulsion is any recurring activity used to manage our feelings that eventually ends up managing us. We can get compulsive about almost anything: over-spending, over-eating, over-working, over-planning, over-worrying, over-exercising, over-drinking, over-computerizing, or just over-overing. Many people are compulsive without even knowing it. It isn't until the computer crashes or the credit card is canceled or the doctor says you can't eat a high fat diet that it becomes clear how much any particular activity controls your life...

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Enlighten Up   --    Humor

Another Agency

Absent-Minded Husband

Personality Disorder

Beauty

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Goodies

If Women Controlled The World

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