For several years I have wanted a source that I could use to find specific links about a specific topic. The information tools I currently use are: Google (for pinpointing a specific question); Google Reader (checking on over 400 blogs); Pageflakes (for news and current events plus specific categories); Alltop (my magazine for topics); and [...]
Knowing what I want to help happen in the world makes my daily posts easier and more fun. My agenda is to help others to help others. Specifically, I believe that each person has a core of goodness from birth. I also believe that this core contains our creativity which is the source of our [...]
Each life has defining moments. The moment that changed my life happened in a home for alcoholic women in 1976. I was in a discussion with Lois, another alcoholic from Brooklyn, and she was talking about her life. Midway through her talk, I felt intense warmth toward her and compassion flowed through me. The miracle [...]
The Changemaker Family of Blogs began with our main blog, www.kathyberman.com (Changemaker: Change Your Life). After writing daily for 10-12 hours for 2 years, I came to believe that the blog had too much information. So I began reorganizing my thoughts and ideas into separate, one-main-theme blogs. My main blog follows my spiritual journey of [...]
My food program revolves around my choice of vegetable—the sweet potato. As I’ve mentioned, I eat this when I am physically hungry. For me, this generally doesn’t begin until 11 AM-4 PM. I put margarine and dark brown sugar on it and microwave it. I count this as 300 calories.
1) The brown sugar is 15 [...]
The Changemaker Family of Blogs began with our main blog, www.kathyberman.com (Changemaker: Change Your Life). After writing daily for 10-12 hours for 2 years, I came to believe that the blog had too much information. So I began reorganizing my thoughts and ideas into separate, one-main-theme blogs. My main blog follows my spiritual journey of [...]
“We don’t receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
Marcel Proust
Three things happened that helped me to see my alcoholism. The first was that my father (who was a periodic alcoholic) had long periods of being dry. Yet when he returned to [...]
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Over a 40 year period, I, Kathy Berman, have worked in eight different careers including teacher, education specialist, insurance/investment sales, addiction counselor, marketing specialist, manager of parks, and manufactured home sales and author. The greatest gift from having had such diverse jobs is the reality that no one knows a job before they begin. We [...]
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