Bette’s Blog
Bette’s Blog will be dedicated to providing single parents with insights, information, and strategies to help you solve problems, deal with difficult situations and continue to grow into maturity, wisdom and Self-Strength. Bette will provide a smorgasbord of ideas for guidance and inspiration as you do one of the hardest jobs on the planet.
INTUITION: What Is It and How Do I Know If I Have It?
INTUITION What Is It and How Do I Know If I Have It? Have you ever had a hunch or a dream that revealed the answer to a dilemma? We live in a culture where traditionally we have been encouraged to use only the logical mind to solve problems. However, we all have a deeper knowing aspect to our minds that over the last couple [...]
Laugh In the New Year!
Humor, smiling and especially laughing are good for you. You can practice smiling, and you can laugh for no reason at all, according to pioneers in "laugh-therapy." Smiling can begin your laughter, and because it is very contagious laughing is a wonderful way to connect, bond, and find camaraderie with others. The benefits of laughing can include stress relief, pain relief and even a solution [...]
Tapping Into Your Intuition
Tapping Into Your Intuition This is not the first time I’ve written about intuition. The article, “Tapping Into Intuition” was first published in the September-October edition of Coast & Country Magazine, a north of Boston publication, in 1983. The article began with a brief visualization exercise, like all my exercises designed to help people tap into their innate psychic ability to solve problems, stimulate [...]
Trusting Intuition
Intuition, simply put, is another way of attaining knowledge. It is not a linear process, but rather an experience of knowing that puts together what you’ve know consciously, what you know non-consciously and what just sense. Intuition presents through the mind—and the body– with images, hunches, somatic experiences and mini-ideas that just pop in. For example, intuitive knowing occurs with experiences called “clairsentience, as when [...]
The Relationship Between Stress and Intuition
The Relationship Between Stress and Intuition We all have stress. This is a fact of life. And we all have intuition. Intuition is an innate human trait. It is also a fact that stress blocks intuitive knowing. Therefore, to access intuition, we must learn to manage stress. When the mind is filled with the chatter and worries of daily life, it is as if the [...]
What’s Your Story?
By Bette Freedson We all have a fascinating story. Some of you might write about it, some may talk about it, and some may not say much at all. However, every one of us has coped with life events that hold the seeds and secrets of our inner strengths. Embedded in the chapters of each story are roots of our wounds as well as revelations [...]
On Your Soul’s Journey: Embody Happiness On Your Soul’s Journey: Embody Happiness
Four years ago, at Kripalu, my colleague and friend Michele Tamaren and I taught a weekend program titled, “A Woman’s Sacred Journey.” We presented our work from the perspective of Positive Psychology combined with intuition; This blog combines some our thoughts about finding happiness on your life’s soul journey--whatever your gender. Happiness as a path of scientific study was inspired by the work of Dr. [...]
Before I Was a Therapist, I Was A Psychic
In my new book "Other Realms, Other Ways: A Clinician’s Guide to the Magick of Intuition", I tell my readers, “Before I was a social worker, I was a psychic.” I knew from the time I was very young that I had the gift of intuition, a human capacity that can be developed, honed and applied in many dimensions of life and work. I began [...]