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- Thanksgiving: A Time to Be Grateful - by Submitted on Nov 11, 2011 from Randi FineWith the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, I find myself reflecting on all I have to be grateful for; I have much to acknowledge. Each day I open my eyes to the morning light, look out into my lovely bedroom, and am reminded of how far I have come in life. There was a time when I didn’t have ...
Views: 1862(1 vote) - Life After Death: Where Do We Go From Here? - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2011 from Randi FinePartial transcript from 9/12/11 episode of my radio show, A Fine Time for Healing Death is one of the greatest mysteries of life. Haven’t we all thought about what happens to us after we die. Every religion claims to have the answer, but all the answers differ. There are many points of ...
Views: 2393 - Moment to Moment - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Randi FineWe steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Life is a journey, a path we take to self discovery and higher learning. Our dreams, wishes, and goals place us on this path and keep us moving forward. Everyone embraces their journey differently. Some set goals and ...
Views: 1208 - Therapy is Best When Self Help and Mind Over Matter Techniques Fail - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Randi FineSelf-improvement advice on virtually any topic that interests us, written from endless points of views, is right at our fingertips. Most of the articles I write are of this genre, often with a New Age slant. Websites like SelfGrowth.com and Curezone.com are entirely devoted to this topic. A ...
Views: 1821(1 vote) - Healing the Emotional Pain of a Broken Heart - by Submitted on Aug 20, 2011 from Randi FineAn excerpt from upcoming 8/25/11 blog radio talk show "A Fine Time for Healing" If you’ve ever been in love, chances are that you have suffered the devastating feelings of at least one relationship break up. Immediately following the death of a love relationship, your heart is shattered. ...
Views: 1569 - Relationship Codependency: Everything You Need to Know - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2011 from Randi FineExcerpted from the April 21,2011 episode of my radio show, A Fine Time for Healing Roughly 100 million Americans suffer the effects of codependency today. Relationship codependency is often referred to as the “White Knight” syndrome, because the codependent tends to be a rescuer. ...
Views: 4543(1 vote) - Living Life to the Fullest - by Submitted on Aug 09, 2011 from Randi FineThe most difficult people in our lives end up being our greatest teachers. The hurdles they place before us and the challenges they present to us are only lessons that we must learn for our greater good. Think of the oyster…without the irritating grain of sand there would be no pearl. ~ ...
Views: 2456(3 votes) - Spirituality: The True Essence of Our Being - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2011 from Randi FineThe word spirituality is often interchanged with the words faith and religion. Though they are interrelated, the terms have very different meanings. This article will specifically focus on what it means to embrace spirituality, and the many positive attributes of living a life that is ...
Views: 2615 - Shine Your Spiritual Light to Overpower the Darkness of Others - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Randi FineAs I discuss many times in my memoir, Fine…ly, I’ve been a creep-magnet far too often in my life. I share a lot of stories in regard to this odd phenomenon in my book, but I couldn’t possibly share them all or my book would have lost its focus. There have been several instances of people ...
Views: 2204(1 vote) - How to Get What You Want - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2011 from Randi FineExcerpted from 5/31/11 Blog Radio Talk Show A Fine Time for Healing http://www.blogtalkradio/randi-fine , "How to Attract What You Want in Life: Gratitude and Abundance" We cannot possibly realize the immense power that comes from our thoughts. What we focus on grows…that is the law of the ...
Views: 1513(2 votes) - What is Our Purpose in Life - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2011 from Randi FineDo you remember being a child and asking your teacher or parent why you had to learn something that you'd never use in life? A child's world is small; their limited perspective is based on the quality of love they receive, what their senses tell them, and what they have experienced in their ...
Views: 2081(2 votes) - Everything Will Be Okay - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2011 from Randi FineThe angels are always near to those who are grieving, to whisper to them that their loved ones are safe in the hand of God. ~ Quoted in The Angels’ Little Instruction Book by Eileen Elias Freeman, 1994 In 2004 my husband was in the market for a mid-seventies Corvette or Trans Am to add to his ...
Views: 1918(1 vote) - Letting Go: Releasing the Pain that Holds You Captive - by Submitted on May 31, 2011 from Randi FineTranscript from May 19, 2011 Blog Talk-Radio Show, A Fine Time for Healing http://www.blogtalkradio.com/randi-fine We have, or will all experience shattering times or violations in our lives that wound us deeply. To quote Thomas Chandler Haliburton, “The memory of past favors is like a ...
Views: 2182(1 vote) - Laugh at Yourself, Laugh at Life - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi Fine"Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can; all of them make me laugh" ~ W. H. Auden A few days ago I went to visit my ex-mother-in-law, along with my daughter Cammy (her granddaughter) who was in town for the weekend. I usually ...
Views: 1555 - Nothing Personal - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi Fine“Whatever you think, whatever you feel, I know is your problem and not my problem. It is the way you see the world. It is nothing personal, because you are dealing with yourself, not with me.” ~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements. Why do most of us find it so difficult in the face of an ...
Views: 1963(1 vote) - Twenty Parenting Tips That Work! - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineParenting is far from easy; it takes consistency and tenacity. While raising children, we plant many seeds in them and hope they will grow. It is difficult to know how we are doing as parents and what the end results will be, because these seeds take many years to cultivate. We may feel like ...
Views: 1202 - "A Fine Time for Healing: A Sanctuary for Your Emotional Wellbeing" Hosted by Randi Fine on Blog Talk Radio - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2012 from Randi Fine"A Fine Time for Healing" is a Blog Talk Radio podcasted half hour sanctuary for your emotional wellbeing. Show host and author of Fine...ly, Randi G. Fine, discusses life-skill topics that heal and enhance our life experience. Tune in for informative, inspiring, uplifting, and empowering tips ...
Views: 1759(1 vote) - Forgiveness Means Letting Go of the Past - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi Fine“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ~ Mark Twain We are all likely to be wronged by others more than a few times in the course of our lifetime. Living in this imperfect world we will surely find ourselves faced with the dilemma of ...
Views: 1837(1 vote) - The Memoir Whisperer: Voices From Beyond - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineOne would think that by the time we reach our fifties, our abilities and hidden talents would have already become apparent. Well that may be true for many, but it wasn’t true in my case. What is odd is that before it happened to me, I had always looked upon the talent that suddenly sprung from ...
Views: 1647 - Picking Up Good Vibrations - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineThe attraction we have to other people is often felt immediately upon meeting them. Think about the people you know or have met in your life who seem to naturally draw people to them with an unexplainable magnetism. These people give off a vibe that makes us feel, comfortable, happy, and ...
Views: 2629(3 votes) - Unspoken Words of Every Child - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineMany of us, myself included, have suffered through difficult childhoods. It is with greater clarity that we are able to evaluate our past from an adult perspective. Though we may be cognizant of the root of our pain, our childhood experiences were tightly woven into the cloth that made us who ...
Views: 1306 - Love Is As Love Does - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineThe desire to love is not itself love. Love is as love does. ~ M. Scott Peck, M.D. Love is often characterized by the overwhelming feeling that is commonly associated with it. We have all experienced the giddy feeling of falling in love, a feeling that eventually fades and gets replaced by ...
Views: 1915(2 votes) - Synchronicity: Recognizing the Stream of Consciousness Through Which Life Flows - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi Fine“Coincidences are spiritual puns”~ G.K. Chesterton We’ve all heard the common mantra, “There are no coincidences.” Whether believer or skeptic, we have all experienced these fascinating and seemingly random occurrences in life that seem too improbable to be chalked up to just chance. Often ...
Views: 1497(1 vote) - Connecting With Loved Ones Who Have Passed - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineAs I stated in my January 16th article, “Is There Life After Life,” for many years I’ve had a curiosity about the infinitive properties of life. This curiosity has lead me to fill my personal library with books written by noted, and in some cases scientifically tested, psychic mediums such as ...
Views: 2436 - You Are the Creator of Your Own Life Story - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineDaily OM When you remember that you are the author of your own life story, you are free to create a masterpiece. We all have our own life story. It is filled with relationships and events that help shape who we are and what we believe to be true about the world. Depending on our ...
Views: 3285(2 votes) - Personal Bill of Rights - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi Fine1. I have numerous choices in my life beyond mere survival. 2. I have a right to discover and know my Child Within. 3. I have a right to grieve over what I didn’t get that I needed or what I got that I didn’t need or want. 4. I have a right to follow my own values and standards. 5. I ...
Views: 2195(2 votes) - Does Goodness Always Prevail? - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineMany of the morals and principles that we live by throughout our life were ingrained in us by our parents when we were young. Among other things, parents are largely responsible for building the character of their children. They are our role models. Children are sponges—they absorb all that ...
Views: 4871(1 vote) - My Personal Journey of Recovery - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FinePrologue from My New Book FINE…LY: MY STORY OF HOPE, LOVE, AND DESTINY I believe that there are divine reasons for the pregnant pauses in our lives; the times when our life seems to come to a screeching halt and we are rendered powerless over it. Those are the times we should pay especially ...
Views: 1443(1 vote) - Is There Life After Life? - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineI really can’t say where the fascination began, all I know is that for many years I’ve had an insatiable thirst for knowledge about the “Afterlife.” It is not a morbid preoccupation with death but rather a spiritual curiosity about the infinitive properties of life. It is said that only the ...
Views: 1448(1 vote) - Knowing What Our Future Holds - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineWhat is the destiny that awaits each of us? Do we really want to know? All of us want to look forward to the prospect of a life that’s new and exciting. When we’re hurting, we want to know when there will be a brighter day. We all want to believe in a future that is better than the life ...
Views: 2915(1 vote) - Have You Ever Asked, “Why Don’t Others Ever Appreciate What I Do For Them?” - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineMany of us do not understand the importance of having emotional “boundaries” in our interpersonal relationships. Many of us do not even understand what the term “boundaries” means in that context. And many of us do not even know whether the emotional boundaries in our life are healthy or not. ...
Views: 1927(1 vote) - The Reward of Pushing Against the Tide - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineThe number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at how far they still have to go, instead of how far they have gotten.” ~ Vaibhav Shah When I first read this quote it rang true for me; I think we all can relate to it in some way. But then I found myself reading ...
Views: 1281(1 vote) - When Our Heart Compels Us To Make Difficult Choices - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineIt isn’t always easy to do something that we feel in our heart is the right thing to do. Often we find that a difficult decision we felt compelled to act upon is unpopular and met with judgment, hostility, and reprimanding by those who are not even personally affected by our actions. Those ...
Views: 1621(1 vote) - Celebrating Life After 40 - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineIn preparation for an inspiring interview last night with Anna Banks on her radio show “Living Fully After 40,” I reflected on the highlights of middle age. I discovered, while mentally unearthing the positive side of aging, that there are many benefits to this inevitable change of life. Those ...
Views: 1417(1 vote) - Having Faith In An Uncertain World - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineThere are many times in life when we find ourselves walking in the dark--faithfully moving forward but unsure of where we are heading or what obstacles we will bump or stumble on along the way. The only way to navigate through the uncertainty of life is to have faith in something greater ...
Views: 1600 - Success Means Fulfilling Our Life Purpose (Previously: Measuring Our Personal Success) - by Submitted on Aug 01, 2011 from Randi FineWe all live in a material world and each of us has material needs and desires. I have to admit, I do enjoy having my physical comforts and a sprinkling of luxuries, though I wouldn’t call myself largely indulgent. I believe that in our fast-paced, money driven world many of us have forgotten ...
Views: 1525(1 vote) - How I Found Faith - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineI was brought up in a Jewish, kosher home. Our family life revolved around Judaism. My grandfather was an Orthodox Cantor. I went to Hebrew School three times a week for six years and became a Bat Mitzvah. Even our kitchen clock had hebrew letters instead of numbers. Although the ...
Views: 1422 - There Is No I In The Word Parent - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineChild Abuse, Children, Faith, Family, God, Happy, Health and Wellness, Hope, Inspiration, Love, Motivation, Parenting, Relationship, Spiritual, Spirituality, Success, Thoughts, Words, Writing There is No “I” in the Word Parent In Family, From The Writers Desk, Gratefulness, Healing, Inner ...
Views: 1511(2 votes) - We Are Eternal, Our Purpose Is Infinite - by Submitted on May 29, 2011 from Randi FineHave you ever asked yourself, “What am I doing all this for? Why is life such a struggle? What am I accomplishing?’” I am fascinated by life after life accounts. I’ve read a multitude of books written by reputable spiritual mediums and have attended their seminars. I have personally ...
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