Thoughts on Iphelia
From the Author, Editors, and Guest Contributors
Those Sounds Again | What Happens in the Mind of a Child When Parents Fight?
She couldn’t hear what they were yelling at each other about. Just that they were yelling. It had woken her up from that blissful lost feeling one gets right between waking and dreaming. Her muscles tensed. She had hoped this time it would be different. She had hoped...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Dear Time, Are You On My Side?
This month has probably been the busiest of my life, which makes my decision to review Dear Time, Are You On My Side? by today—March 31—even sweeter. As I read this book, a compilation of blog post-esque chapters written by a wildly diverse group of women, I was also...
Editor’s Bookshelf: The Year of Blue Water
February: For many of us it’s a cold month during which we’re longing for sunlight and bombarded with cultural expectations related to romantic love, from boxed candies and floral arrangements to candles and lingerie. One of the things I’ve related to love from a...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Living Light
My two favorite images from Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling have one thing in common. Light. It comes from two different sources. In one, it’s afternoon sunlight flowing in through a window as Iphelia meditates on a desk in her classroom. In the other, it’s...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Notes on a Nervous Planet
This is the first book you’re going to buy, borrow, or gift in 2019. Here’s why: It’s timely. It’s funny. It’s just what you (or a loved one) will need after the holiday season (and when venturing into a brand new year). I ordered Notes on a Nervous Planet the day it...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Chakra Wisdom
What can we learn about ourselves when we commit to reading a book we’re not 100 percent on board with at the start? Well—a lot—especially if it’s anything like Trish O’Sullivan’s Chakra Wisdom: Healing Negative Thoughts, Feelings, and Beliefs with...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Bodyfulness
If you have a body, this book is for you. Okay—maybe truisms don’t charm you. Of course you have a body. Right now your eyes scan these words and more likely than not, your finger is hovering over a mouse, trackpad, or smartphone screen. But often when we think of...
The Power of Intention and Ghosts in the Dark
It’s a popular notion: If we focus on our intentions we can create our lives to be exactly what we want them to be. And it is true that intentions are powerful. They are the background music of everything we do. When we have set good intentions and given them their...
Editor’s Bookshelf: Emotional Explorers
Tyrian Press just announced that Iphelia: Awakening the Gift of Feeling, the Children’s Edition, will be published on January 23, 2019, making it the ideal time to share my first review of a children’s book: Emotional Explorers, by psychologists Maria Mercè Conangla...
The Birth of Iphelia: From Children’s Book to Self-Help Guide, This Work Is Destined to Change Lives
It’s been almost 10 years since the idea for Iphelia bubbled up. I had been facing a major crisis within myself and in my life and wrote an angry rant in my journal, desperately trying to validate my feelings. In that writing, I had asserted myself and pushed back...
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