What is your purpose? What do we live for? It was pretty early in the morning when I opened email, and found these sentences staring back at me. I love the morning coffee time, and was preparing to dedicate my…
Category: Relationships
Learning to Trust the Journey
Trust the journey. I thought of this idea today, on the first day that I find myself back in an old familiar space…in my office, the one that my husband painted “happy yellow,” decorated high on the walls with…
Emotions in Crisis: Choices, Steps to Take and What You Can Do About It
If you’re looking for real skills and steps to take as you leave a relationship or life change behind you – or the courage to make a real decision, then this is a great place to start. There is this…
Is it Real Love? 5 Things to Know About Soulmates
Webster’s Dictionary defines “soul mate” as an informal term referring to a “person, especially of the opposite sex, with whom one has a deeply personal relationship.” It’s the most elusive yet sought for relationship in the human life, enduring and…
Letting Go: Separation Anxiety Issues (Part Two)
Alison’s Note: We’re running a few of the most popular articles read worldwide on THM while I finish the obligations to my publisher for the upcoming “Soul Thief” release. In April, the THM site will relaunch with the different avenues…
Letting Go: Separation Anxiety Issues, Pt. 1
In the post-relationship phase of romantic attachments, it is highly likely that you might experience separation anxiety or stress due to the absence of your former flame. Even within the most troubled relationships, the soul connection between individuals longs to…
For “Heart Broken” and “Somebody That I Used to Know.”
Across the world, men and women have spent hours this week writing in to THM about the heartbreak of loss, love and life changed. To each of you, I’ve promised a specific response that takes time and thought; many of…
The Greatest Gift of All
For all of you across the world, I wish you the happiest of moments on this advent eve. Here at THM we deal with some pretty raw feelings of loss and love gone wrong, broken hearts and people cast aside…
For “Married But Lonely”
Dear Alison: “I am lonely, deep inside of me as though no one knows the real me. I can’t put into words why. Yes, I am married. We’ve been together for almost fifteen years. We don’t talk about anything meaningful…
Journal Thoughts: Echelon
It’s been one of those days that end in the phrase “crash, crash, boom” for me, my mantra to remind myself that to much intensity is ….. too much intensity. Time to box, time to climb, time to bat. …
Journal Thoughts: Amazing Love
Definition of JOY 1 a : the emotion evoked by well-being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires : delight b : the expression or exhibition of such emotion : gaiety 2 :…
For “Help Me Mend My Broken Heart.”
Bess Myerson once wrote that “to fall in love is awfully simple, but to fall out of love is simply awful.” Especially if you were that person who wanted the relationship to last, were willing to be and stay through…
Coloring Outside the Lines
Stress. It’s the deeper cause of more illness in the United States than stuff you order in a drive thru window “super sized.” Consider this from depressionperception.com: 75% of the general population experiences at least “some stress” every two weeks…
For “Brokenhearted”: What is Happiness, Anyway?
hap·py/ˈhapē/Adjective 1. Feeling or showing pleasure or contentment. 2. Having a sense of confidence in or satisfaction with (a person, arrangement, or situation). I’ve often wondered on my trips around the sun how happiness looks in the eyes of others.…
Falling In and the Music of the Night
It’s 1:10a.m. in Indiana, and I smell like the most wonderful woodsmoke and incense. I am listening to the All American Rejects. The All-American Rejects – It Ends Tonight At this time of night, it’s only a matter of moments…