The Heroic Journal, Living Your Resillient Life

 

August 2012  

In This Issue
FINAL TOUR
Soul Whispers
What is the heroic journey?
 
learning 
 2012 - A year of learning how to live more resiliently.  
(click here for
full schedule)
 
Heroic Journey
Tucson, AZ
Phoenix, AZ
Albuquerque, NM
El Paso, TX
 
NEW TRAUMA SEMINAR COMING OCTOBER  31, 2012
 
"Restoring Life After Sexual Trauma: Treating Adolescents, Adults & Couples"
 
First tour:
 
Raleigh
Richmond
Norfolk 
 
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Book of Great Interest
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cheese   
The Swiss Cheese 
Theory of Life
by
Judith Belmont, 
MS, LPC
 
An excellent book for 
the general public and 
clinicians alike.  
Find creative and fun
 ways to learn/teach the 
best evidence-based work.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
highlighter life 
Live mindfully.
Pay attention to the
Soul Messages around you.
 
 
chaos and movement  
 
 
Hgo  
 
MUST READ JOURNEY 
BOOKS:
 
 
Harold Fry  
  wildflower
 
 
art of pilgrimage  
 
 
 

 

WELCOME to the August issue of The Heroic Journal: Living A Resilient Life.   If you are new to The Heroic Journal, please check out the website below and read the archives of past Journals.  Regardless of the transition or trauma, the heroic journey is a universal framework of understanding, surviving and thriving during changes and challenges in life. Thank you for visiting or signing up for our newsletter.  

 

Do you have a heroic story to tell or an article about human resilience to share? Contact Missy Bradley-Ball if you would like to talk about submitting your story/article or if you wish to be interviewed. SPECIAL REQUESTS: stories of how a person or group of people made the difference in your life journey.

  

Courageous journeying...

Missy

FINAL TRAINING TOUR
   
Resilience: Helping Clients 
Navigate the Heroic Journey 

September 10, 2012 - Tucson, AZ
September 11, 2012 - Phoenix, AZ
September 12, 2012 - Albuquerque, NM
September 13, 2012 - El Paso, TX
 
The journey seminar through Cross Country Education will be coming off the road after a three year tour. An ON DEMAND version is still going to be available for CEs, a manual, CDs, self-study through Cross Country www.crosscountryeducation.com.  
 
To sponsor a tailor-made version for your group or organization, please contact [email protected]
 
COMING 2013, will be a workbook for the public, webcasts and more.
 
For a brochure of the final tour, click here.
swans


SOUL WHISPERS: Taking Five to Live Your Life
 
The Hearts of Cathy Cason Davis
 
This series (also available in newsletter) is to help us all to find those brief and spontaneous moments throughout the day to find messages in everything around us.  How does your inner still voice within speak to you, guide you or assist you in making the best decision for you? If you are a person of faith, how does your Higher Power, God, Spirit Guides give you the guidance you need?
 
As we use nature and even frustrations, there are lessons being taught many times a day, but we have to "get online" to those soul whispers.
 
Here is an example of how it has worked for one person.
 
Cathy Davis has always loved hearts.  She has decorated with them for years, but one day, a couple of years ago...after her home was destroyed in the devastating floods in Nashville, Cathy began to notice the soul whispers.
 
tree heart  
 
One morning, while preparing her second cup of coffee, she picked up the spoon she had used for the first cup and found a perfectly shaped heart in the saucer. She smiled and noticed the coincident.  Over the course of the last two years, Cathy has found hearts everywhere...leaves that have fallen off the trees, rocks that she stumbles across, unintended heart shapes in sidewalks and more.  She has become mindful of her surroundings and not only has she grown to notice how prevalent they are, she also finds these unexpected "soul messages" have become a spiritual practice.  Upon finding another heart in nature or even a sliver of soap at the drain of the shower, she ponders whether she has acted in a loving spirit on that day, how could she have been kinder or more present for someone, whether she has been grateful and appreciative.  On those days that she doesn't believe she is living in alignment, she does what she can to make it right.
 
strawberry heart  

Cathy's outwardly simply, yet very powerful symbol helps to keep her in alignment with her other spiritual beliefs.  We need a "practice" to remind us to live in alignment with whatever we hold dear.  What is yours? 
heart butterfly  
 
 
The Heroes Journey: The Overview
 
 Since many of you are new to The Heroic Journal, we sometimes like to rerun a previous article that may be relevent.  Reg Harris has written one of the best and most understandable overview for those who are new to the framework.  Since the Journey framework can be found worldwide, in every major culture and every religious tradition, this information may be translated into the language which is most honorable and respectable to what you hold dear. Read Harris' article...
 
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 and
Melissa "Missy" Bradley-Ball,     
MS, NCC, BCETS, FAAETS 

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