Blog by Shelly Sharon

WEEKLY BLOG

"A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it"

Virginia Woolf

The Paradox of Darkness

It is the paradox of spiritual growth and healing that leads you through dark tunnels, a wintery loneliness or a separation from a famili...

Can Awareness Heal Your Pain?

Inhale and exhale. inhale exhale . . . . It that all there is? Well. It’s a start. Especially if you spend your days running not even onc...

Stuck Between Four Walls. But Free to Be Yourself

I took two weeks off for a writing retreat. I stayed home, between my own four walls. At times I felt sheltered by those walls, in my own...

From Grief to an Exalting Release

It’s hard to grasp we’re in a process of grief before our eyes have settled on the thing that has died. But the grief starts as soon as t...

The Kind of Healing Everybody Needs

Hurts and wounds can show up like spring flowers after last winter’s storm, splitting old tree branches while moistening the earth for new...

Stay Strong

Hesitant steps withered by The silence of your breath. If you knew where the road leads You wouldn’t make an effort To grow wings That ca...

Breaking Through Continuous Anxiety

When your heart pulsates fast and your sense of security seems like it took a run down the rear emergency stairs When your stomach stews ...

Healthy and Unhealthy Emotional Security

You are always safe, my love. Nothing will hurt you. No matter what you say, pleasing to the ears of others or troubling and confronting,...

Spiritual Shoplifting

Quietly quietly, she sits alone, staring at the beauty and glow of those precious things that have the quality of being beyond. She can’t...

Follow Your Bliss… BUT HOW?!

You know what makes you happy but you keep on being dragged away by duties and commitments. You might be saying ‘that’s life’, but deep d...

Three Guilt-Free Ways to Want What You Want

My husband and I spent our summer holiday high up at 1240 m in a typical stone-house B&B in Valle D'Aosta. Surrounded by the bright snow-...

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SHELLY SHARON

Feeling - Expressing - Realising