http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Maia+Berens Self Help Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152495&ca=Self+Help "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Nightly for many years I lay in my lonely marriage bed and fantasized about what I called “running away from home.” I could never quite see how I’d... Relationships Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=153089&ca=Relationships "Sticks and stones are hard on bones Aimed with angry art, Words can sting like anything But silence breaks the heart." - Suzanne Nichols Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. "Pooh!" he whispered. "Yes, Piglet?" "Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you." A.A. Miln... Dating Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152827&ca=Dating When I left my husband, I was so wounded and confused that I didn’t have much idea who I was or what marriage was really about. So the first “nice” man who paid attention to me, complimented me, asked me out – and wanted to marry me, pretty much got me. So I had a six month marriage and found out a)... Self Help Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152831&ca=Self+Help "Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." Martin Luther King, Jr. Who is the Real You, your authentic self? In the Human Experience, from the time you are born until you are roughly seven you are your perfect, authentic self. Then you take on lay... Self Help Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152834&ca=Self+Help "Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance." Robert Conklin Resistance is your mind saying NO. Then your mind translates that to your body. When I feel resistance, I feel a stuck feeling in my body. It is as if the... Self Help Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152836&ca=Self+Help Three Secrets to Getting Everything You Want Really! Those of us who look at things like “getting everything you want” are usually those who don’t have everything we want and know it and feel it – often to the point of pain. Two very painful things in my life started me on this path of trying to get... Self Help Maia Berens Wed, 23 May 2007 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=152837&ca=Self+Help I went to a women's writing workshop retreat awhile ago for some much needed R and R. It was wonderful. We were asked to read a couple of poems and write from that. Here's the first - a poem by Rumi translated by Coleman Barks. The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new a...