When you think of divorce or a break-up what is the first thing you think couples say? Money disagreements? Not enough sex? Just not in love anymore? My partner bored me? We don’t have anything in common? Partners who lie or cheat? While all of these answers may be partially …
Read More »The Emotional Impact Parents Splitting Up Can Have on Families
Divorce and separation are never easy things to handle. And if you have kids with your spouse or partner, splitting up will affect them, too. Divorce has a lasting impact on kids of all ages, so it’s important to be aware of the potential consequences before you sign the papers. …
Read More »14 Parenting Styles That Won’t Get Your Kids Ready For Life
How did you learn to be a parent? And how do you know when your parenting is helping to create a wise and capable future adult and when it is getting in the way? Having spent years working with parents, I see some repeating parenting styles – some productive, many …
Read More »Finding The Hugger in Me
Originally posted on Intent.com I am not a hugger. I probably just failed Spirituality 101 by making an “I am” statement that includes a negative, but the truth is, I’m not a big hugger. Even though it’s a negative, it’s a true negative, so there. I’ll hug my children and …
Read More »3 Words to Remember to Make You a More Compassionate Person
One of my greatest frustrations with the idea of “being spiritual” is this notion that the response to our actions is really the responsibility of the person reacting. I suppose that’s true, I mean I know it’s true that everything we see and hear and experience is almost entirely painted …
Read More »My Box: A Reflection on the Limitations of Our Reality
By Betsy Chasse originally posted on Intent.com I don’t even know where to begin, where I begin anymore, where it begins and where It ends and how I fit into any of it anymore and for that matter (lol – matter!) what It even is. I’ve just arrived back in …
Read More »Oops I failed at being spiritual
Interview with Betsy Chasse by Chris Grosso for Mantra Magazine Chris Grosso: You made what ended up being one of the most successful spiritual movies of all time, What the BLEEP Do We Know!? Then what happened? Betsy Chasse: For a while I had it all. Spiritual know-it-all: check. Perfect husband, perfect …
Read More »Juggling My Lemons
By Betsy Chasse originally published on intent.com You know how when you’re at the grocery store, gazing at that skillfully stacked display of lemons looking for just the right one, and then you find it? You pluck it from it’s snug little piece of time and space and then suddenly, …
Read More »Between Fear and Flight
By Betsy Chasse – Originally posted on Modern Mom Recently I played along with the whole Facebook Throwback Thursday thing and trotted out a very adorable pre-adolescent picture of me for everyone to “Ooh!” and “Ahh!” over. I hadn’t seen this picture in a while. There I am, all pouty …
Read More »I Met My Soul By the River, and This is What She Said
We are hilarious creatures. The things we put ourselves through in the name of enlightenment, evolution, understanding, knowing. It’s times like these I wonder if not knowing anything would have been safer. Maybe being asleep is actually a better way to be… Alas we are seekers, even those of us who …
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