A Poem: Giving Back Grief
All Posts, EmpowermentI am from a long line of grief
From the tears of women
Of mothers
Of the unmothered
Dark concentric stains, decreasing in size
Like the vantage point of the horizon, the perspective shift of space and time.
I am from me, my…
The Numinosity of Love
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, insight and awareness, self growth, Self Reflection, Trauma Jennifer Lehr's Blog
When we get caught, there is a reason
I am caught. Watching, I wait. Will they get together? How does this keep happening? They love each other. Please. This is the power of love.
I have been caught before. This time it is with Anne…
The Magic of Living and the Limitations of Will Power
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, insight and awareness, Self Reflection, self-actualization Jennifer Lehr's BlogAlthough I was on the journey to find my health, the journey itself was the teacher. Health was the outcome. What emerged for me was a new understanding of how the world works.
Mastery = Vision + Will + Trust + Release
All Posts, Empowerment, insight and awareness, Self Reflection, self-actualization Jennifer Lehr's BlogOriginally published September 20th, 2019 in Medium.com's Change Your Mind, Change Your Life.
We are manifesting beings capable of mastery
I imagine being a huge eagle, soaring, almost effortless, catching the currents of wind, playing, trusting…
My Perfect Life
All Posts, Empowerment, insight and awareness, self growth, Self Reflection, self-actualization Jennifer Lehr's BlogFor as long as I can remember, I've had this idea of a perfect life. Maybe because as a child, teenager and young adult, I felt forsaken by God, I felt trapped in my actual life. I didn’t know how to get from the life I had to the untarnished and perfect life I wanted.
Are You Swimming Upstream Or Following Your Bliss?
All Posts, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's BlogFollow your bliss. The message zagged through my brain with the charge and sizzle of a lightning bolt. In one moment, my world reorganized.
I had been slogging through some work I wasn’t well suited for, feeling miserable and wondering how…
Learning to Love All of Me
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Reflection, Self-Help, The Therapeutic Process Jennifer Lehr's BlogFor me, healing has often involved sending love from the current now reality back to aspects of myself in the past that had suffered. We do grow. Our lives do change. We do have different chapters.
Twin Seed
All Posts, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's BlogIt was as if a light shone upon the passage between my younger self, and the self I am today.
The other day I met a young man, the son of a friend. He was open. We talked. About his struggles. His desires. His journey. How he could address…
My Sense of Home
All Posts, Emotional Healing, Empowerment, Self Reflection Jennifer Lehr's BlogMy much-loved husband nearly died three weeks ago. When I imagine my life without him, I realize that there is no place to go, nothing to do that could feel okay. I feel homeless, lost and adrift.
What is home, but a tender heart we connect…