Articles & Interviews
The complete archive of Laura's articles, interviews & columnsArticles by Laura
- Can You Afford Not to Forgive?
- Do you believe what I believe?
- Raccoon Wisdom
- Psychic Pets...Is Your Pet Psychic?
- Is God Trying to Tell You Something?
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- Everybody Counts and We Need You
- Seeing Grief as a Sacred Space - Part 2
- Seeing Grief as a Sacred Space - Part 1
- Seven Simple Steps for Choosing the Right Practitioner
- What's All the Fuss About Dolphins?
- Expectations vs. Reality, a new perspective
- Dolphin Dancing
Interviews with Bob Olsen
Can You Afford Not to Forgive?
by Laura ScottDuring a deep discussion someone close to me revealed that they were unable to forgive themselves for some things they had done. They knew it was preventing them from moving forward with their dreams, but they had absolutely no idea how to get past it. Watching someone you love suffer is awful, and worse if you are witnessing needless suffering. It got me to thinking about the purpose of guilt and how to help someone, even myself, to move into a place of forgiveness.
All of us have something to forgive.
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Do you believe what I believe?
By Laura ScottI believe in real butter
and a big country kitchen where your friends can watch as you cook or help you,
laugh and cry with you as we figure out the world, our children, each other,
all the while cooking up life, nourishment and love.
I believe in old fashioned things, like manners, and love notes
and swinging on big long rope swings.
I believe in the power of being present.
I believe in love.
Universal Love uniting us, unifying us, underwriting us.
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Raccoon Wisdom
By Laura ScottI had no idea what I was getting into last summer when I figured that the best way to 'beat the raccoons' at their game of raiding my bird feeders was to start leaving them an alternative source of food. My motives weren't altruistic, they were practical; I didn't want to have to keep replacing expensive bird feeders when the big raccoons were pulling them to the ground to get to their tasty food treasures inside.
The "if you can't beat 'em join 'em" theory worked. The raccoons gave up… (read more)
Psychic Pets...Is Your Pet Psychic?
by Laura ScottCan a pet be psychic? Yes! For a variety of reasons. Animals live in a different energy frequency than we do and they aren't as mentally cluttered as we are. They have terrific 'antennas' to the spirit world and can regularly 'see things' most humans can't. Just notice how your pets behavior changes and at times seems to be responding to things you can't see - whether jumping over something in your empty hallway, or taking great pains to walk around it, or looking up excitedly as if responding to someone who's not visibly… (read more)

