BEFORE. Yipes!

AFTER. It's a miracle!

COME TO THE SPRING & FLING CLUTTER WORKSHOP!
spring 1. to rise above.
fling 1. to throw. 2. a brief time of wild pleasures.

Are you suffering from redund-abundance? Subscriptionitis? Paperyosis? Do you catch yourself clutter-muttering when you can’t find something? Have you lost your office? Your car? Are you merging two households? Moving an aging parent? Are you ready to downsize and set sail into your me-time? Then spring-fling-it!

So much stuff. So many decisions. So little time. This workshop offers hands-on hope for all Closet Clutterers, Life in the Fast-Laners, C.H.A.O.S. Sufferers (Can’t Have Anyone Over Syndrome) and anyone in between who wants to be more organized and less overwhelmed by “stuff.” With over a decade of “digging out” experience, I will show you how to take control. My approach is playful, creative and guilt-free.

LEARN HOW TO STOP FLAILING AND START FLINGING!

• Eliminate your clutter and the stress that comes with it.
• Identify where you are, where you want to go, and what’s holding you back.
• Dialog with your space so you can shed sentimental stuff without regret.
• Find a system that works with your personality and not against it.
• Create a doable plan of action to transform your home or workplace.
• Maintain your space to keep up with the flow of your life!

LOCATION: Greenville, South Carolina
DATE: Saturday, October 25, 2008
TIME: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
PLACE: Unity Church of Greenville, 420 N. Pleasantburg, Greenville, SC 29607
FEE: $30 per person. Bring a clutter buddy because proceeds go to the Unity building Fund!
Contact Unity Church to register for this workshop. Materials provided. Pre-Registration is recommended.

Don’t miss out on your fling!

Feng Shui with a Twist: an unexpected or different direction, method, or slant.

Why the Twist? Have you read the books and watched the TV shows only to find yourself more confused about how Feng Shui works or where to begin? Do you feel like harmony and balance in your home is a good idea but your Feng Shui IQ mutated into IQ-ITIS? (I Quit – It Is Too Hard.) Are you new to Feng Shui and just want a fun way to satisfy your curiosity and explore what this life-enriching practice has to offer? This workshop is for you!

What the Bleep is Fun-Shway? Bernadette’s playful, exploratory approach shows you how to activate the power of intention and attract into your home – and life – the best “chi for me.” Fun-Shway is an attitude that offers a new pair of glasses through which to view what Feng Shui can do for you.


BEFORE THE TWIST.

AFTER THE TWIST!

Start Fun-Shwaying!
• Learn how to work with one of Feng Shui’s most powerful tools.
• Activate a simple formula for tapping into the power of intention. (It’s no secret. Feng Shui works with the law of attraction!)
• Learn to dialog with your space so you can decide what goes where and why.
• Discover why centering and comfort zones are so important to the Feng Shui focus.

With over a decade of Feng Shui experience to share, Bernadette will show you how to see your home through Feng Shui eyes. Don't Miss These Workshops!

LOCATION: Covington, Georgia
DATE: Saturday, September 20, 2008
TIME: 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
PLACE: Life Dance Wellness Center, 7193 Industrial Blvd., Covington, GA 30014 Directions to Life Dance Wellness Center
FEE: $45 per person. Bring a Friend and Save! Just $40 each for you and your Fun-Shway buddy!
Contact Bernadette to register for this workshop. Materials provided. Pre-Registration is recommended.

LOCATION: Greenville, South Carolina
DATE: Saturday, September 27, 2008
TIME: 1:00 pm – 5:30 pm
PLACE: Unity Church of Greenville, 420 N. Pleasantburg, Greenville, SC 29607
FEE: $30 per person. Bring a Fun-Shway buddy because proceeds go to the Unity building Fund!
Contact Unity Church to register for this workshop. Materials provided. Pre-Registration is recommended.

As we forgive those who put trash in our baskets – or mailbox.

GreenDimes.com is using $5 million of their money to pay you to stop junk mail! Why? In their own words, “Because junk mail sucks! And we want to help you stop all the credit offers and other crazy stuff that's clogging your mailbox!”

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Sunday, August 3 is International Forgiveness Day. An article by Michael E. McCullough, entitled Vengeance 101 in the July/August issue of Spirituality & Health lists projects that can be implemented in the spirit of encouraging the world to be a more forgiving place. Those of you who know Ray and me know this is a big topic for us. Neither of us would be here today were it not for our willingness to forgive and our willingness to accept forgiveness.

So, we cannot let this day go by without support. We are picking Project #4 on the list – with our own twist, of course. It states, "Promote a climate of apology and compensation in your family, neighborhood, congregation, or place of work." We wish to promote a climate for consideration, contemplation, and conversation – if you care to join in – as to where our lives would be without the willingness to forgive and accept forgiveness.

When we say forgiveness, we are not talking about the "pardoning" kind. (The kind that says, "You’ve done me wrong. You’ve hurt me bad. You’ve altered me. I will suffer with this pain forever but I will forgive you.") Yes, pardoning is a starting point. But pardoning, at best, offers a compromised peace. A peace that teeters atop past offenses, stashed yet never forgotten. Throw a few more offenses on top of the pile and this version of forgiveness crumbles rapidly. Pardoning would never have gotten Ray and I around the block after our reconciliation.

When we say forgiveness, we are talking about the kind that erases the "offense" forever;

I am struggling with this blog. I am frustrated and disappointed because I have not been able to experience the depth of voice with it that I imagined I would have when I started to explore this medium of expression just over a year ago.

I am not a writer. Never wanted to be one. I journal.

I write freely in the pages of my journals. I have no cares. No worries about grammar or structure. My goal is simply to express whatever thoughts and feelings come to surface. To capture them on the page where I can see them. Contemplate them. Process them. And witness my growth when I read them.

It doesn’t matter if my thoughts are choppy or incomplete. If I trail from one topic to another. If family and friends don’t understand them after I am gone.

Journaling centers and grounds me. Fuels and focuses me. It is authentic to the moment. Within its process, my only responsibility is to myself.

But when I approach writing in this blog I am immediately confronted with