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New Darcy Clarke Book Covers Launched.

6/30/2018

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I have just finalized new book cover designs to four of my books:

Discover your Soul Connection: Introducing Living in Alignment. This is an engaging introduction to the Living in Alignment body of work. It addresses the difficulty many people experience connecting to and/or deepening their connection to their spiritual self.  It provides answers to questions about the Soul, Source energy, Living in Alignment in the context of having a human experience.

Experience Living in Alignment: A Practical Guide to Personal Transformation.This comprehensive Guide makes a distinct contribution to the process of experiencing personal transformation, providing a universal human roadmap to illuminate, support, and facilitate your personal growth.

Saying Yes to You and Your Life: Thriving in Recovery. The Living in Alignment approach offers a broader perspective on the origin and treatment of dependence / addiction placing your sustained recovery in the context of your spiritual journey: discovering and coming home to yourself.

Healing the Wounds of Codependence: A Guide to Reclaiming your Life. This book will assist you to reclaim your life by developing both a working understanding of the sources of your codependent patterns and a practical skill base essential to your personal wellbeing and self-empowerment. 


Each has been revised to be more indicative of the contents and better represent the Living in Alignment philosophy.

For more information, please visit: www.darcyclarke.us/link
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Your Soul Mission

6/25/2018

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DISCOVER YOUR SOUL MISSION

One of the noteworthy benefits of Living in Alignment ( i.e., living in partnership with your Soul) is to discover your Soul mission.

From the Living in Alignment perspective everyone has a Soul mission or calling in life, and you are intended to access this and equally if not more importantly, you’re here to accomplish your Soul mission.  

It is the not knowing or having resistance to and or fear of accomplishing our soul mission that causes mental conflict, distress, and unrest for many people.  

The first step in gaining access to your Soul mission is by having a sincere desire/  intention of wanting to know what your Soul mission is… having a sincere intention focuses/ directs your mind. Secondly, make sure you pose the question of wanting to know what your Soul mission is to your Soul (a term I use to refer to your spiritual self-Source energy that dwells within you) and not your mind. I can attest that you’ll gain access to what your Soul mission is and the answer will be transmitted to your human self/ mind.

You’ll know when your Soul mission is transmitted to your mind because when it is revealed, your body will feel energized, your mind will feel relieved, and you’ll feel the reverberation of the “rightness” about the answer throughout your beingness.

Keep in the forefront that your Soul will issue wake up calls when you’re off track or heading in that direction as it pertains to your Soul mission. You find and maintain your energetic homeostasis by actively pursuing/ engaging in your Soul mission.  

You have already experienced this phenomenon along with the wake up calls becoming more pronounced when you don’t take heed to the guidance and directives that your Soul is continuously offering. The spiritual or energetic aspect of who you are serves as a built-in check and balance system that is intended to assist you to be living up to your full potential and accomplishing your Soul mission.

To reiterate, you won’t access your Soul mission or calling in life by attempting to “figure” it out, it is by connecting with your spiritual self-Soul that you will discover what your Soul mission is as well as how to go about accomplishing it in ways that will keep you grounded in both the physical world and in the world of mystery.

To learn more about the benefits of partnering with Source energy, please visit my website: www.darcyclarke.us

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Living in Alignment, why do it?!

6/21/2018

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Benefits of Living in Alignment…

There are many noteworthy benefits to Living in Alignment.  You will experience these benefits as soon as  begin to listen to and follow your intuition. Your intuition is the voice of your Soul which is the unique aspect of Source energy or the power that is greater than the resources of your egoic mind/ intellect that dwells inside of you.  I have listed some of these benefits below:

  • become your own best friend and ally
  • gain the skill base to form nurturing relationships
  • allow other people to become catalysts for you
  • become self-empowered
  • live more in your body
  • develop a partnership between your human self and your Soul
  • attain a knowing that you are deeply loved
  • experience heightened creativity
  • experience a sense of abundance
  • find inner joy
  • gain skills to deal effectively with stress and reduce anxiety
  • develop more honest and satisfying relationships
  • create balance and harmony in your life
  • experience an abiding sense of peace and serenity
  • discover meaning and purpose in your life
  • embody an attitude of gratitude and celebration of life
  • gain a renewed sense of belonging
  • become more present
  • open your heart to yourself, others, and to living your life
  • connect with your Soul mission
  • experience sustainable transformation
  • thrive in your life

To learn more about the benefits of partnering with Source energy, please visit my website: www.darcyclarke.us

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What Does Love Mean?

6/11/2018

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A friend sent me this and I simply had to post it!

Slow down for three minutes to read this.   
                           

A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds

'What does love mean?'


The answers they got were broader, deeper, and more profound than anyone could have ever imagined !
                           
  
See what you think:                           



'When my grandmother 
got arthritis , she couldn't bend over and paint 
her toenails anymore.. So my 
grandfather does it for her all the time , even 
when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'



Rebecca- age 8


'When someone loves you , the 
way they say your name is different. 
You just know that your name 
is safe in their mouth.'



Billy - age 4


'Love is when a girl puts on perfume 
and a boy puts on shaving cologne
and they go out and smell each other.'


Karl - age 5


'Love is when you go out to eat 
and give somebody most of your French fries 
without making them give you any of theirs.'



Chrissy - age 6


'Love is what makes you smile 
when you're tired.'



Terri - age 4


'Love is when my 
mommy makes coffee for my daddy and 
she takes a sip before giving it to him , to 
make sure the taste is OK.'


Danny - age 8

'Love is what's in the room with 
you at Christmas if you stop opening presents 
and just listen.'



Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)


'If you want to learn to love better , 
you should start with a friend who you hate. '



Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)


'Love is when 
you tell a guy you like his shirt, 
then he wears it everyday.'



Noelle - age 7


'Love is like a little 
old woman and a little old man who are still 
friends even after they know each other so 
well.'



Tommy - age 6

'During my piano recital , I was 
on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the 
people watching me and saw my daddy waving and 
smiling.



He was the only one doing that. 
I wasn't scared anymore.'



Cindy - age 8


'My mommy loves me 
more than anybody 
You don't see anyone else 
kissing me to sleep at night'



Clare - age 6


'Love is when Mommy 
gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.'



Elaine-age 5


'Love is when Mommy 
sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and 
still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'



Chris - age 7


'Love is when your puppy licks 
your face even after you left him 
alone all day.'



Mary Ann - age 4


'I know my older sister loves me 
because she gives me all her old clothes 
and has to go out and buy new ones.'



Lauren - age 4


'When you love somebody , your 
eyelashes go up and down and little 
stars come out of you.' (what an image)



Karen - age 7


'Love is when Mommy 
sees Daddy on the toilet and she doesn't think 
it's gross..'



Mark - age 6


'You really shouldn't say 
'I love you' unless you mean it. 
But if you mean it, 
you should say it a lot. People forget.'



Jessica - age 8


And the final one:


The winner was a four year old child 
whose next door neighbor was an 
elderly gentleman who had recently lost his 
wife.



Upon seeing the man cry , the 
little boy went into the old 
gentleman's yard , climbed onto his 
lap , and just sat there.



When his 
Mother asked what he had said to the 
neighbor , the little boy said ,




'Nothing , I just helped him cry'

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How to Experience Sustainable Recovery from Addiction.

6/6/2018

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EXPERIENCE SUSTAINABLE RECOVERY FROM ADDICTION...

“You can have sobriety without recovery but you can’t have recovery without sobriety”...

What this slogan means is that although sobriety and recovery are not mutually exclusive nor are they one and the same.  Many people have sobriety but are ‘white knuckling it’  so to speak which is the result of not identifying and or sufficiently addressing the underlying causes that are keeping dependence in the driver’s seat.

From the Living in Alignment perspective abuse, addiction, and/ or relapse are not the problems, but symptoms of underlying causes.

These underlying causes are placed into four categories:

(1) Having a chemical imbalance in the brain.  Many people who have addictions have a co-occurring disorder, such as a mood disorder, anxiety disorder, ADD, etc.  Many people who have addictions are attempting to self-medicate a pre-existing mental condition with a mood altering substance and/ or process (i.e., behavior).

(2) Having unresolved issues from the past and or present.  Many people who have addictions have unfinished business with their past and/ or in their current lives, be it with themselves, other people, and/ or the power that is greater than the resources of their mind involving experiences, choices, decisions, and/ or events.

(3) Having a limited or faulty personal life philosophy.  This consist of beliefs, perceptions, expectations, attitudes (i.e., cognitions) about themselves, addictions, other people, Source energy, life, etc. that are getting in the way or preventing them from living up to their full potential, manifesting satisfying and nurturing relationships, and experiencing fulfillment, etc.   

(4) Having ineffective relational and other skills to live life on its terms.  This may include having low self-esteem; a lack of or no functional boundaries (w/ self and/ or with others); not being able to manage their emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, or behavioral realities; not being able to manage stressors; not knowing what their needs and wants are and/ or how to get them met; not being able to live in moderation and/ or  create balance in their lives. In other words, many people in recovery are functioning at a deficit when it comes to being and living in the world.

Usually people with addictions have a combination of underlying causes that are keeping dependence in the driver’s seat.  The strategy that the Living in Alignment approach uses to ensure sustainable recovery is to:
  • identify the underlying causes;
  • sufficiently address the underlying causes; and
  • assist people to integrate the insights, gifts, and lessons gained from processing this information.

To determine if there is a chemical imbalance a comprehensive psychiatric evaluation along with a medical examination and a complete blood panel is conducted to determine if there is a condition(s) present and whether or not the cause is biological and/ or medical.  This can be a tricky process, for addictions and physical conditions can induce or mimic mental conditions.  Also, stressors and trauma ( I define trauma as any experience or event that is less than nurturing) can cause mental conditions and/ or make existing conditions worse.  

With unresolved issues, the protocol is to assist a person to examine experiences and/ or events that have or are currently taking place in their lives that are producing chronic stress ( such as: inadequate parenting, divorce, death, illness, heartache, to name a few)  and help people understand how their unresolved issues/ stressors are impacting their overall functioning and well being, fostering victim consciousness and manifesting as addictions.

As it pertains to a one’s personal life philosophy, the Living in Alignment approach recognizes the necessity of identify limiting and/ or faulty beliefs, perceptions, expectations, etc. to understand how these cognitions are impacting the person’s life.  Belief it or not, like it or not, the fact of the matter is that your cognitions are co-creating your reality. This translates to “what you think about, is what you bring about!” The good news is that you can modify and or replace limiting and/ or faulty beliefs, perceptions, and the like.  

With respects to life skills, you can learn skills to live in mutually satisfying ways with people and manage life on its terms.  The Living in Alignment approach customizes treatment to the needs and concerns of the individual. These skills include developing healthy self-esteem; developing functional boundaries with your own mind and with other people; becoming emotional present with yourself and with others; accessing needs and wants; finding balance and other healthy lifestyle practices.

Along with identifying and addressing underlying causes that keep dependence in the driver’s seat, the Living in Alignment approach focuses on the psycho, social, educational, physical, spiritual challenges of all stages in recovery.

To learn more about the Living in Alignment approach to attaining sustainable recovery, please check out my book titled “Saying YES! to you and your life; Thriving in Recovery”
on my website: www.darcyclarke.us

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