Author Archives: rlongwort
Anger Management and the Spiritual – Part 4
There are two ways to look at anger. One is to be a victim, the other is to use it as a stepping stone into the spiritual life. So to review, when thoughts of anger connect to emotions, they trip … Continue reading
Lost River
I was away for the weekend with nine women friends at Lost River State Park. I went hiking and stopped to paint and rest and to fight with the mosquitos. I may have gone over the legal limit on killing … Continue reading
Anger Management Part Three – The Chakra System
When I told a JMU student I was a dream interpreter, she spat out a few sentence in a row, “can you tell my life? can you read my chakras? can you open my chakras?…” her long blonde hair flying … Continue reading
Mariah the Leprechaun went looking for gold.
Mariah goes on a journey of her own. It is her turn to leave the home and go searching for gold. She already suspects that it is not physically real gold she is looking for but an increase in understanding … Continue reading
Anger and the Glandular Systems
I am attempting to go into the body and find some of the driving forces involved with anger and to bring awareness to how our thinking influences anger. Hormones are involved, as are memories from the past. Stopping the thoughts, … Continue reading
The Psychoanalytic Method on Retreat in Guatemala
While in Guatemala, on retreat recently, working on the wounds of love, I had the experience of being a child again and of being abandoned by my grandmother. She left my family home, to live with her brother, the … Continue reading
A Dream Workshop in Guatemala
I just completed an eight day Kundalini Yoga Retreat in Guatemala. We were led in a most sacred time in prayers and healing the wounds of love by Seri Amrita. She facilitated a bringing to the surface of old … Continue reading
Anger Management Part 1
I taught Anger Management Groups in the past. Counting and walking away and watching the angry self talk is standard cognitive behavioral therapy for Anger Management. Watching for the signs that you are getting angry also helps. I always had … Continue reading
Lost and Found
Mariah had a feeling he was on his way home because the crow in the tree above her was talking non-stop. Uisneach appeared soon thereafter but he did not bring back her quilt, the one he sailed away on at … Continue reading
Inner and Outer – Hair and Thoughts
I was at the local ice cream social on Wolfe Street, a place to meet neighbors, old and new. A new neighbor’s child said to me that I had hair like her favorite doll. This child had thick wavy flaxen … Continue reading
Rose Longworth Counseling 