by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Jun 2, 2023 | Blog
Listening From the Heart One of the greatest causes of stress and energy drains is ineffective and inefficient communication. If you watched the news at all this week, you witnessed that going on constantly. Many times it was clear there was no listening going...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 26, 2023 | Blog
All Manner of Things Shall Be Well When I was in Seminary, I wrote a paper on Julian of Norwich. I chose her because the word Norwich was in her title and I had a beautiful female Norwich Terrier at that point and I felt they were related. (such lofty...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 19, 2023 | Blog
BIG LOVE- Someone I hold dear coined the phrase for me of BIG LOVE- (Hey Carlton…shout out to you). I don’t know what exactly he meant but to me it means a love that makes me better and bigger than I ever thought of being; a love that is eternal in nature and is ever...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 12, 2023 | Blog
The Art of Thoughtfulness- My mother could have written the book on manners – It seemed the lessons from “ please and thank you” to writing notes of appreciation were what I spent many an hour doing, with her standing behind me to make sure I did it…she taught me how...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | May 5, 2023 | Blog
No greater Love- I have written about Love a great deal in the few years this blog has been in existence. It is and always has been the greatest power we could ever hope to experience. We often do not realize that until something occurs to remind us of Love’s...
by Debora McDermed, Ph.D. | Apr 28, 2023 | Blog
Handsome and a Hero Women of my mother’s generation had a feeling for this man…it was called a crush. I can remember my mother listening to the song at the end of this blog, and dancing as if Harry was in the room. I think she said something like “no man should be...
