Soulbyte for Monday February 6, 2017

Like a little clay pot on a potter’s wheel pull yourself together and do what you have to do to not go spinning off into thin air, nothing more than a formless lump of clay. You are the potter, the potter’s wheel, and the lump of clay. Hold yourself accountable and by your own hands center yourself. Hold yourself responsible and by your own intentions steady yourself to do what needs doing. Hold yourself to your convictions and by your own hands shape yourself into what you know is right. Get centered and by your own hands stay there, for it is the best place to be right now, for you and for the world, calmly centered, doing what needs doing, within and without.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck’s Film Pick for Now: The Sound of Music!

Set in Austria in the late 1930s, The Sound of Music is a deeply moving story of coming of age, finding one’s true self, transforming grief and loss, as well as holding onto the Self in the midst of the Nazi takeover of the minds of the masses and the country itself. This 1965 classic offers timely guidance for where we are now. Love rules!

A bit pricey to stream, but well worth it. This is Chuck’s favorite movie of all time!

Soulbyte for Friday February 3, 2017

Pull inward now and use your energy for yourself in a new way. Change something. Do something differently. Change a habit. Let something go or introduce something new. Change an old thought or idea. Say something nice to yourself. In this moment hone your energy and your thoughts and stay focused on the awareness that today is good, you are good, and that’s all that really matters!

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Soulbyte for Thursday February 2, 2017

Nature is in control. Trust it. Notice how the moon phases occur, how the moon changes each night, growing larger and brighter and then waning. So too do all things grow and then lose power, waning into nothing, for that is nature. Even the sun, which holds its form and its power throughout the day must set at day’s end. This too is nature. All things pass. All things change. This time too will pass. In the meantime keep alive the steady flame of light within, honing it alway on what is right. Though the sun and moon go out during their times of change do not let that light go out, for it is the light of the eternal, and the eternal is good. Trust that too.

-From the Soul Sisters, Jan & Jeanne

Chuck Ketchel, LCSWR