September 2008

Do You Have Life Purpose Anxiety?

by Melissa Goerke on September 26, 2008

One topic that comes up quite frequently when I work with people is that they feel lost and uncertain of their purpose on earth. Life purpose seems like a huge mystery to many people, and they feel that every day that goes by without solving the mystery of their purpose is a wasted day. I [...]

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Karma Works

by Melissa Goerke on September 24, 2008

Webster defines Karma as “the force generated by a person’s actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person’s next existence.”  In common usage Karma has come to be a single word representation of the idea that you reap what you sow right [...]

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How to Stop "One of Those Days" in its Tracks!

by Melissa Goerke on September 22, 2008

You wake up to the sound of an obnoxiously loud garbage truck 15 minutes before your alarm is supposed to go off.  You lie there arguing with yourself to just get up already, and you curse the garbage collectors for stealing your precious 15 minutes of sleep. Finally out of bed, your round the corner [...]

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Your Parents Didn't Mean to Screw You Up

by Melissa Goerke on September 19, 2008

For a long time I was very angry at my parents because I assumed that, since they had brought me into this world, they were entirely responsible for my experience of it.  You see,  I had a less than perfect childhood, and I guess you could call us a dysfunctional family, but aren't all families [...]

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