Therese Kravetz

Free Your Voice: Live and Learn Beyond Anxiety


The Body Knows

In my book I talk about how  I listened to the body by tuning into the gut when I needed to take action, and how I calmed down the heart to think more clearly. I also share the neuroscience which proves that our heart and gut have intelligence. They are filled with neurons and neurotransmitters whose function is to think and transmit communications to the rest of the body. When we calm down and relax and receive, our bodies can give us the answers we need in the moment. Our bodies can tell us yes or no, if we should continue in a certain job, meet a certain friend. It is all in energy. Are we energized after we meet with someone, or are we
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Integrity

Do you speak in alignment with your thoughts words and deeds or do you break and crumble your impact on the world with indecision, selfishness and greed Align all your actions, thoughts and words Make it a part of how you lead we can all benefit and grow in integrity When even just one lives with such a creed. Share with your friends!FacebookTwitterLinkedinPinterestStumbleUponemailBufferTumblrRedditDiggPrint

What Is Your La-La Land?

What is that thing of beauty that you create and bring into the world? Maybe it’s stitching a quilt on your own or with others, perhaps smiling as you create another meal for others to enjoy? Maybe it’s a book or a painting? Or you are raising a child who understands their profound purpose in life? As I watched La La Land, my heart opened. It seemed the actors and editing and cinematography moved so smoothly nothing extraneous was there to distract the viewer; none of the players became self-absorbed in some moment. It was fluid and honest. The stars gave bare bones, nothing extra, performance. They sang and danced and invited us in—instead of pushing us away with control or the phony walls of
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Expanding the Definition of Family and Peace

We have a bird Lily now. She came to us in a Starbucks one day. She was sitting outside on the ground as I sat and drank coffee and couldn’t seem to fly. When we took her to the Wildlife Sanctuary, they told us they wouldn’t take her. She was a domestic bird and her wings had been cut. We weren’t going to leave Lily out to fend for herself in the wilderness, so we took her home and looked for her owner. We still have Lily. Lily is not just any bird. She has personality, presence, she seems to be speaking to us constantly. She has a crush on my husband. When she wakes up and we let her get out of her aviary
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The Last Wound

There is usually a struggle before a breakthrough. The breakthrough is usually connected to the thing that we don’t want to feel, face, or fear. The one thing we bury with thoughts or activities like eating, tv, sex, relationships, or ____(name addiction). I like what Native Americans refer to as the “sacred wound.” It’s like we come into this life with something to work through in our lives. They call it sacred because it somehow brings you back to your true self when you can revisit this and face it. Then we can heal. The wound can make its appearance through a shock like a breakup, a loss, an illness, an abandonment. It is a disruption to the calm that we constructed to maintain equilibrium.
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