My Dear Beloveds,: Recent Episodes
Gina Norman
My Dear Beloveds, is a space where you’ll find thought provoking mini-motivational podcasts. This is a spiritual, practical, and discerning space! You will be challenged and enlightened. Through a lot of life hardships I’ve learned to turn tragedy into triumph. I am lived experience. As a lay counselor I’m able to live out my passion in helping people. And at 46 I’m finally a student! Studying to be a Spiritual Director. I live in Oakland, California with my husband and apricot poodle.
Can you withstand your scars? Can you, in time, keep going in life with a spring in your step regardless of the attacks you’ve felt so often? A little squirrel I saw has! (Excuse the background noise please!)
We don’t become vulnerable in response to fear of how someone will respond or what someone will think. We are vulnerable regardless. We can be vulnerable despite how someone will respond to us.
Did you know making everybody happy is not something you can actually accomplish? Somehow we have this illusion that not only can we do this but that we HAVE to do this! Time to let go and breathe, you don’t have to make everybody happy!
A quick thought about thinking small when it comes to feeling better, rather than thinking big.
Have you ever asked yourself “why me” when hardship hits? What about when good things are happening?