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.
Still Your Mind And Give Yourself A Time To Think
Getting Psyched Up for Everyday Life Some time ago I received a postcard from a woman who had discovered her psychic nature in one of my stress management groups. She told me that she had been using her psychic intuition to feel less anxious and remain hassle free. She was doing this by picturing herself peaceful and relaxed even in situations that usually aggravated her. She was [...]
Twenty-Twenty Visions
Twenty-Twenty Visions New Year’s resolutions have typically been wishful thinking that doesn’t always lead me to action. However, refreshing my personal and professional goals at the beginning of a new year, especially at the start of a new decade is another story. In year 2020 I am pleased to reaffirm my visions for goals that have always been important to me. My intention is [...]
What Does It Mean To Be Psychic?
What Does It Mean To Be Psychic? One of my first psychic teachers was Ramona Garcia, a popular psychic and very wise, spiritually gifted woman. Ramona taught me that although psychic knowing can feel magical, the psychic power of mind is not actually magic, but a tool to be used in a variety of everyday ways for beating stress; accessing wise knowing and solving [...]
Becoming a Clinical Wizard
"Through the trees" by vitali_shkaruba is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Becoming a Clinical Wizard The Transformational Alchemy of Metaphor in Integrative Psychotherapy Bette Freedson, LCSW, LICSW, CGP bjfreedson@gmail.com www.bettefreedson.com 207-384-5538 #2 Metaphors, and their cousins, simile, analogy, allegory and parable, contain rich sensual imagery that can cognitively, intuitively and quietly direct attention to new perceptions that have the power to shift self-states, [...]
The Intuitive Wisdom of the Body
The Intuitive Wisdom of the Body Have you had the experience of attunement to that special place of wisdom in yourself? Has this wisdom expressed itself as “a gut feeling,” or “I just knew in my heart…?” Or has intuitive knowing come through as a pain in a particular body part, causing you to say something like, “He, she, it..is a pain in the [...]
Developing your Psychic Ability
Developing Your Psychic Ability The use of psychic ability is another way of looking at the mind-body-inner spirit connection. Accessing intuitive information for guidance, healing and peace via the intuitive power in the quiet mind has become an accepted phenomenon. By using your psychic ability you will be better able to set goals, solve problems, calm emotional discomfort and navigate more effectively through the [...]
Time Travel to Wisdom
Time Travel to Wisdom Can you imagine traveling in time and returning to the present with the gift of a new perspective? Going back to your past might help you realize a solution to a current problem; going forward might give you guidance from a wise great grandparent you knew or wish you had known, or an imaginary inner elder in some far off future. [...]
Psyching Up For Everyday Life
Psychics are often thought to have unusual powers. In fact, there is such a mystique surrounding “the psychic dimension” that many people are willing to suspend their own opinions and decisions for the “insights” and “intuition” of the psychic. Of course valuable material can be brought forth in a reading and there are many talented readers. However, have you considered that YOU are psychic? If [...]