Myra Goodman
- Founder, Quest for Eternal Sunshine and Contributor, Spirituality & Health
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Writing for Resilience and Joy
Resilience can be defined as the capacity to recover from difficulties and adapt well to change. The more resilient we are, the better we’re able to access inner strength and flexibility when navigating setbacks. Laura Davis, author of The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse among several other books, has provided resources for healing, self-discovery, and personal empowerment for more than three decades through her writing, retreats, and workshops.
An Empowering Prescription for Chronic Pain
Twelve years ago when I was on the cusp of turning 50, a health crisis forced me to begin a healing journey that revealed the inseparability of my emotional and physical well-being. It began with terrible nerve pain in one foot that quickly spread to both feet and hands. Soon, my torso and limbs were overtaken by alarming, creepy-crawly sensations. I saw more than a dozen health professionals, but none were able to provide a definitive diagnosis or offer an effective cure.
Trudy Goodman on the Vow to Free All Beings
Sometimes, a single conversation can shift how we move through our lives. That’s what happened to me one afternoon as I was walking along my favorite beach trail, talking to my cousin Trudy Goodman, a renowned Buddhist teacher, Harvard-trained psychotherapist, and founder of InsightLA.
What Life Lessons Can You Learn from Saturn?
I first met Debra Silverman 19 years ago, when I was searching for a therapist to help me navigate a work-related crisis. I approached Debra as a psychotherapist, having no idea she was also an astrologer. I almost pulled the plug on our first session when she asked for my birth date, time, and place. I desperately needed experienced professional advice, not new age esoteric guidance. But Debra urged me to keep an open mind and give her unconventional approach a try.
The Magic of Slowing Down
I’ve always been someone who talks fast, moves fast, and is perpetually future focused, constantly planning ahead and racing to accomplish the next task on my list. The whirlwind of activity in my mind is amplified by the constant flood of information streaming in through all my screens. Regulating my nervous system is an ongoing challenge and a top priority. The most effective practice I’ve ever discovered for calming my mind and relaxing my body is the ancient art of qi gong.
Befriending Every Part of Ourselves
Thirty years ago, I enrolled my young son in a highly regarded preschool. However, I quickly noticed that children were frequently being reprimanded for bad behavior and “taught” to behave by being put in time-outs facing the wall. When my son started crying every time I dropped him off, I knew it was time to move him. At my son’s next preschool, teachers viewed “bad behavior” as a sign that something deeper needed to be attended to.
Swap Anxiety for Joy
There’s some good news for those of us who struggle with anxiety and are eager to live with more joy and less fear: Martha Beck has figured out how to break free from the torturous grip of anxiety, and she’s helping others do the same. Beck—a Harvard-trained sociologist, world-renowned life coach, and best-selling author—has devoted her life to cracking the code on anxiety, one of her biggest struggles since childhood.
Organic Cookbooks
Want to start a publication? Learn More Originally published in Brentwood Lifestyle Eating healthily is easier especially if you have an organic cookbook to help you through the process of going into a healthier lifestyle. Ziggy Marley and Family Cookbook by Ziggy Marley This is a very intimate organic cookbook because it’s very family-centered as Ziggy focuses on organic recipes he’s been preparing for his wife and five children.
Qi Gong: An Ancient Antidote for Modern Stress
It’s impossible to be a human alive on planet Earth and not experience stress, but in a 2022 survey assessing stress levels in the United States, more than a quarter of American adults reported that on most days they are so stressed they are unable to function.
Healing Our Inner Wounds
Everyone has been emotionally wounded. No one makes it to adulthood without experiencing fear and pain, and few of us consistently received the compassion and comfort we needed to feel safe and soothed during our most challenging times. Most of us have endured significant loss, grief, rejection, abandonment, humiliation, illness, injustice, and more without knowing how to meet and treat those emotions.
First Tastes of Spring
From the River City Kitchen Article by Lindsey Tonkin Originally published in River City Lifestyle At last the long hard days of winter are drawing to an end. Cool-weather vegetables such as asparagus, fresh peas, crunchy radishes and rhubarb are the first local fruits of the garden to grace our tables. Their presence trumpets the arrival of spring and the beginning of the much-awaited season of fresh local produce. Fresh local asparagus is one of the delights of the year.
3 Steps to Stay Grounded in an Ungrounded World
When I search back in time for my happiest memories, I see my eight-year-old self during the peak of an entire summer spent in the countryside. I am gingerly making my way across large, smooth stones as I follow a river flowing downstream. After weeks of running around without shoes, my calloused feet are comfortable on the sun-heated rocks. I’m both relaxed and energized, brimming with joy and vitality.
A Shortcut to Our Best Selves
Each of us is born into an intricate web of familial patterns unconsciously handed down through generations. Since infancy, I was labeled the “good girl” by my mother, while my older sister was branded the “bad girl.” This began when my mother arrived home from the hospital with me in her arms to find my 13-month-old sister upset, withdrawn, and difficult to comfort.
Making Peace With Your Body
An important component of emotional healing and spiritual growth involves identifying and challenging the conditioned beliefs we’ve unintentionally adopted that don’t foster our wellbeing. These usually include thoughts about our physical appearance. Whether consciously or unconsciously, many of us are convinced that to be worthy of love and admiration, we need to look a certain way—the way our current society deems ideal.
Healing the Worry Habit
The wise 14th century Persian poet Hafiz once wrote, “Now that your worry has proved such an unlucrative business, why not find a better job?” This question, posed 700 years ago, is still relevant. Even though we know worrying can’t protect us from experiencing life’s unavoidable difficulties, and even though it fuels our stress and saps our joy, why is the worry habit so hard to break? Personally, I don’t have to look far to pinpoint the origin of my entrenched worry habit.
Embracing Your Inner Child
Many of us on a quest to live more peacefully and joyfully have discovered the benefits of examining the beliefs and coping mechanisms we developed when we were young and vulnerable. Looking inward, we often find a frightened inner child banished to our subconscious, seemingly frozen in time. To truly thrive as adults, our inner child must be coaxed out, heard, validated, and embraced.
We Are All Teachers: An Interview with Jack Kornfield
Whether it’s demonstrating how to seed a pomegranate, showing a teenager how to drive, or modeling a sincere apology, teaching is something we all do in many forms throughout our lives. Learning is never limited to the classroom. In fact, we are all teachers. Bestselling author and renowned Buddhist practitioner and teacher Jack Kornfield views teaching as one of the great delights of being human, as well as one of the most impactful ways we can heal ourselves and the world.
Myra Goodman's Perfect 100% Whole-Wheat Bread Recipe Will Make You Forget-Store-Bought Loaves
By Myra Goodman Parade More by Myra Pinky Promise! This Will Be Your New Favorite New England Clam Chowder Rosemary Potato Bread Seeded Multi-grain Bread (Photo by: Patrick Tregenza) Baking bread was what made me fall in love with cooking. After my first year of college I rented a house for the summer in Burlington, Vermont, with a gang of friends, and one of them taught me this very simple recipe, which I still use decades later.
Tuning In to the Wisdom of Winter
When the weather gets cold, I hear many people bemoaning the short days and long nights as they pine for summertime. Not me! I love the wisdom of winter. Enchanting Magic, Sparkling Snow My embrace of the winter season began when I was a young girl living in Brooklyn.
Strengthening Porous Boundaries
Reparenting Our Lower Chakras De Rosa’s powerful approach to healing centers around the energetic body. “In school, we learn about the nervous system, the musculoskeletal system, the cardiovascular system, and more, but we never learn about energetic anatomy.
Leaning Into the Back Side of Your Chakras
Over time, giving and receiving primarily through the front body can be very depleting. In contrast, the back side of our chakras is where we source universal power and nourishment from the Divine.” In other words, the back body is about input versus output. When we’re nourished from the back body, the front sides of the chakras can stop working so hard and come back into the body. With better balance, we have more ease, energy, and healthier boundaries.
A Technology Detox Ritual for Resetting Your…
For most of my life, one of my greatest pleasures was gazing up at the stars on clear, dark nights. As my eyes adjusted, I was always mesmerized by the countless new points of light that kept magically appearing as time went by. I never tired of communing with such vast, mysterious splendor. But lately I’ve been sad and concerned to notice that stars no longer hold my attention like they used to.
Waking Up to Water
More people are living on the planet, but the amount of usable water stays the same. “Clearly, we must adjust our habits to live more sustainably on the earth.” Fresh running water is something many people living in developed countries take for granted. When we turn on the tap, water magically appears. If we want hot water, we simply twist a handle. Toilets whisk away our waste so quickly that it’s immediately forgotten.
Be Your Own Healing Crisis Guide
Photo by Yoann Boyer on Unsplash A healing crisis is any event in which you feel worse on your wayto feeling better. Seeing your healing crisis as a nonlinear journey will help you arrive at the destination of improved health. Your body knows how to heal itself, but healing is not a linear process. You’ll often experience a healing crisis along the way.
Puzzling Out Play
“Play is the gateway to vitality,” says The National Institute for Play. When is the last time you took the time to just play? The only memory from kindergarten is playing musical chairs during a class party. Two rows of chairs had been placed back-to-back down the middle of the classroom. Dozens of parents stood against the walls, encircling the chairs.
The Wisdom of Trees
Discover the wisdom of the trees with a grounding tree meditation script and audio. I live on a farm on the central coast of California with two small groves of towering redwood trees. I visit one every morning when I walk my dogs, stopping to stand amidst the trees, tilting my head up to look at the sky through their branches.
Coping With Negative People
“No one consciously chooses discord over harmony, but our established patterns of behavior often rule our lives without consideration for our own good or for the wellbeing of others.” Suppose there is someone in your life who contacts you often and regularly expresses a negative attitude. What is a considerate and kind way of coping with that situation that respects both ourselves and the other person?
A Prayer to Welcome the New Year
Turn the page on a terrible, divisive 2020 with prayer—even if you don’t normally pray and you don’t know who to pray to. While my ancestral roots are all securely tied to Judaism, I was raised outside of all established religions. My mother, originally from Hungary, grew up only casually observant, but my father came from a devout Hassidic community in Poland where everyone’s life centered around a sincere and constant devotion to God.
How to Cope With the Loneliness of This Season
Loneliness is hitting especially hard during these holidays. Here are some ways to cope. Popular culture typically paints a picture of Christmas as a joyous time when families come together to feast and celebrate life in a convivial atmosphere. But even in the best years that is far from reality for many of us.
Recipe: Pumpkin Pie Granola
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How to Process Difficult Emotions
Accepting (even embracing) challenging emotions takes practice, but it's never too late. I’m 56 years old, but, in many ways, it feels like I am just now becoming a grown-up. At long last, I’m starting to look to myself as my primary source of inner wisdom, comfort, and care. I’ve learned a tremendous amount by watching my daughter’s parenting style. When her two-year-old son cries in pain or frustration, she doesn’t quiet or distract him. Instead, she holds him, strokes him, and lets him cry.
5 Important Lessons I Continue to Learn From My Dad
5 lessons I continue to learn from my dad, which can “help others realize no matter what hardships you have endured, life can still be experienced as a fulfilling and joyous adventure.” “To know that we don’t know is the beginning of wisdom.” I have inherited a complex legacy from my parents. Both of them were Holocaust survivors with massive emotional wounds that impacted my life in countless ways.
Remembering My Father on Holocaust Day of Remembrance
On this Holocaust Day of Remembrance, which falls on the 75th anniversary of liberation, I’d like to talk about my father. Mendek Rubin was a brilliant inventor, a wise and kind man who survived three torturous years as a slave laborer in seven Nazi concentration camps. Born in the small town of Jaworzno, Poland, in 1924, he grew up during terrifying times, as fierce anti-Semitism generated in Germany fanned the flames of hatred in surrounding countries.
Coronavirus From the Perspective of Mother Earth
“What if I look at this pandemic from the perspective of Earth? What might our 4.5 billion-year-old planet have to say to the most disruptive of her 8.7 million species right now?” I discovered the healing power of writing at an Esalen Institute workshop in 2012. One of the first writing prompts the teacher gave us was: Tell me the story of your family from the point of view of your kitchen table.
Recipe: Baked Apples, 3 Ways
by Myra Goodman – March 13, 2020 Eat Try these variations of a simple, satisfying, and healthy way to treat yourself. When I want a dessert that is sweet and satisfying but not too heavy, a baked apple is one of my top choices. They are quick, easy, and versatile—as these three recipes demonstrate. The stuffing can be adapted to whatever suits your fancy. Baked apples taste great either warm or cold, and can also be served as a side dish.
A Holocaust Survivor's Spiritual Journey from Darkness to Light
Myra Goodman March 12, 2020 Guest Post My new book, Quest for Eternal Sunshine: A Holocaust Survivor’s Journey from Darkness to Light, shares the remarkable true story of my father, Mendek Rubin. He was a brilliant inventor who turned his genius inward to explore the depths of his psyche in an effort to heal from the enormous trauma of his early life.
Recipe: Cauliflower Couscous
Getting your cruciferous vegetables in has never been easier or more delicious. This is a delicious, healthy, and unusual way to prepare cauliflower. The cooking technique borrows from risotto, but the dish resembles couscous in appearance. The cauliflower is chopped into small pieces and slow-stirred with additions of hot stock, a technique that ensures a creamy texture but still maintains a bit of chew.
My Holocaust survivor parents never talked about it - and their silence didn't protect me
As a child of concentration camp survivors, I know how urgently relevant the Holocaust is today The entrance to the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau with the lettering 'Arbeit macht frei' ('Work makes you free') is pictured in Oswiecim, Poland on January 25, 2015, days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Russian forces.
Cauliflower Couscous Recipe
The cauliflower is chopped into small pieces and slow-stirred with additions of hot stock, a technique that ensures a creamy texture but still maintains a bit of chew. Photo by Maria Brzostowska “The Earth-Bound Cook” by Myra Goodman is a detailed reference guide to healthy organic produce and ingredients, along with easy-to-follow tips for cooking delicious recipes that make your kitchen more eco-friendly.
The Original Morning Glory Muffin
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Eccentric Caesar Salad and Quick Garlic Croutons
When I created this Caesar salad, I did a silly dance around the kitchen. Seriously -- it is that good. And the name is perfect for it. I'm betting that this Caesar salad dressing is like nothing you've ever tasted. It is extremely eccentric and undeniably delicious. Who would have thought that curry powder would be the perfect addition to a Caesar dressing? Not me before I took the risk of adding it -- but now I am a total convert.
Rigatoni with Eggplant and Buffalo Mozzarella Recipe
Chunks of succulent eggplant get a quick sauté to set their flavor, then are simmered in a light marinara sauce until tender. At the last minute, cubes of mozzarella di bufalo are added, quickly becoming soft and creamy as they melt into the sauce. Photo by Alli Pura “The Earth-Bound Cook” by Myra Goodman is a detailed reference guide to healthy organic produce and ingredients, along with easy-to-follow tips for cooking delicious recipes that make your kitchen more eco-friendly.
Keep the calories away with this healthy Super Bowl Salad - | WBTV Charlotte
Keep the calories away on Super Bowl Sunday by trading a high-calorie dish for a healthier option. (Source: WECT) Americans eat the second-largest amount of calories on Super Bowl Sunday. To lower your calorie intake, Ana Evans, a nutritionist with New Hanover Regional Medical Center, recommends adding extra movement or exercise that day. Evans suggests drinking half your body weight in water to keep from overeating and clear out any toxins from your system.
Keep the calories away with this healthy Super Bowl Salad - WECT TV6-WECT.com:News, weather & sports Wilmington, NC
Keep the calories away on Super Bowl Sunday by trading a high-calorie dish for a healthier option. (Source: WECT) Americans eat the second-largest amount of calories on Super Bowl Sunday. To lower your calorie intake, Ana Evans, a nutritionist with New Hanover Regional Medical Center, recommends adding extra movement or exercise that day. Evans suggests drinking half your body weight in water to keep from overeating and clear out any toxins from your system.
Coconut, Almond, and Raspberry Jam Thumbprint Cookies [Vegan]
Coconut, Almond, and Raspberry Jam Thumbprint Cookies [Vegan] 3.2K Views 2 weeks ago Coconut, Almond, and Raspberry Jam Thumbprint Cookies [Vegan] 3.2K Views 2 weeks ago Support OneGreenPlanet Processing ... These vegan Coconut, Almond, and Raspberry Jam Thumbprint Cookies will make you believe in magic because they’ll disappear right before your eyes! These cookies are absolutely irresistible. The combination of coconut, toasted almonds, and raspberry jam is hard to beat.
5 Dinners to Stress-Cook (and Stress-Eat) During Election Week
It doesn't matter if you're voting for Hillary or Donald or writing in Thomas Jefferson—this is going to be a stressful week. It will be stressful in the nail-biting, tight-chested days leading up to the election, and stressful—for half of you, anyway—in the oh-God-oh-no-what-just-happened aftermath. We are not equipped at Epicurious to give you sound psychological advice on how to get through it. The best we can do is offer some recipes you can take your feelings out on.
Holocaust rescue 70 years ago left scars now beginning to heal: Myra Goodman
Seventy years ago, my parents were liberated from Nazi slave labor camps. This is a sad anniversary for me. Although my mother and father survived the war, they both lost their parents, most of their relatives, and every single possession. Both were left with deep emotional scars. Coming to terms with the systematic torture and destruction of my family because they were Jewish is something I’ve struggled with since I was young.
The Original Morning Glory Muffin Recipe
1. Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 350°F. Butter 16 standard-size muffin cups or line them with cupcake liners (see Notes) 2. Place the flour, sugar, cinnamon, baking soda, and salt in a large bowl and whisk well to combine. Add the pineapple, carrots, apple, raisins, and nuts and stir to combine. 3. Place the eggs, oil, and vanilla in a small bowl and whisk to combine well. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until just combined.
Make Ahead Gravy Recipe
1. Position a rack in the lower third of the oven and preheat the oven to 375°F. 2. Place the carrots, celery, onion, and garlic in a large Dutch oven and season with salt and pepper. Bake the vegetables, uncovered, stirring them once or twice, until they are tender and browned, about 1 hour. 3. Transfer the Dutch oven to the stove top. Add the stock and 3 cups of warm water and bring to a boil over high heat. Add the bay leaves and turkey giblets and neck.
Roasted Balsamic Artichoke Bottoms Recipe
1. Combine the vinegar, garlic, shallot, and thyme in a medium-size bowl and set aside. 2. Trim an artichoke down to its bottom, leaving most of the stem attached. Slice the trimmed artichoke in half through the stem and place it in the vinegar marinade. Repeat with the remaining artichokes. 3. Toss the artichokes in the vinegar marinade to coat. Cover the bowl and let the artichokes marinate at room temperature for 2 to 3 hours, tossing occasionally. 4.
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