HEALING IN A BOWL

I’m not much of a shopper.  I bore quickly browsing through stores.  But there was a store I loved when I lived in New York City many years ago: Steuben.  Their impressive collection of crystal captivated me.  There was something magical about the delicate objects shining in that museum-like store, though I never imagined they could have healing properties – until many years later.

GEOGRAPHICAL HEALING

I moved myself across the country recently – left everything familiar to begin life anew.  After 18 years together, my husband and I got divorced.  It sounds so cliché, but we seemed to be growing in different directions.  Even though we were two peas in a pod for most of our relationship, we began to want different kinds of lives. Leaving the safety and comfort of our home together to begin life as a single person is the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced, and I still don’t know that I’m fully over it.  I’m still in the healing process.

HEALING CAN BE SWEET

A woman who was a guest on my television series, What’s the Alternative?, emailed me recently and invited me to a chocolate-tasting party.  “Who can resist that?” I thought.  The invitation explained that we wouldn’t be sampling any old chocolate -- we’d be delighting in a delicacy that conferred health benefits way beyond anything we might imagine.