by Tonyah | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured, Meditation
We can look at the stages of grief with its strong emotions that come and go as natural responses to loss. Grief itself is a very strong emotion. To transition from these heavy feelings, we must understand that our emotions are trying to help us cope and learn how to...
by Tonyah | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured, Meditation, Spirituality
A Christ-centered meditation and prayer practice gives us the opportunity to surrender our soul to God’s Spirit. The goal is to know Christ and become more like Him. In so doing, we receive the same power that was given to Jesus. We merge with and connect to all of...
by Tonyah | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured, Meditation, Spirituality
Christ-centered meditation and prayer is a devotional spiritual practice of surrendering to the heart of God — the unconditional love located in our hearts. Christ is in everyone from the beginning of time as a divine spark of light, life, and love. The goal of our...
by Tonyah | Oct 5, 2021 | Featured, Meditation, Mental Health, Spirituality
I didn’t grow up in the church. Church was a place to visit on special occasions, like weddings, funerals, or baptisms. As a kid, I wasn’t invited to many of those, which kept church and God off my radar for years. In a strange twist, it was a TV evangelist of all...
by Tonyah | Aug 30, 2021 | Meditation, Mental Health, Spirituality
The first time I ran away from home, I was four. My older brother, Michael, was six at the time. For years I followed him everywhere. He walked, I walked behind him. He ran, I ran. I looked up to him, and I obeyed him. My parents thought it was very cute how we would...
by Tonyah | Aug 23, 2021 | Featured, Meditation, Physical Health, Spirituality
Yoga phobia is a real issue, especially among conservative Christian groups. Yoga phobia is a fear of integrating a practice or set of beliefs incompatible with one’s own religious and moral beliefs. The fear is completely understandable and respectable. The potential...