Power of Gratitude

Power of Gratitude

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Love Notes Volume #11                                                            November 2019
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I hope the upcoming holiiday season is a great one for you.

 

Last year some of  my Love Notes were focused on the Power of Hope, the Power of Surrender, and the Power of Faith, This Note is dedicated to the Power of Gratitude.

 

I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart for being part of my community— opening my emails, sending positive energy and prayers, connecting in real time and online. 
          
       What do you have in your life right now for which to be grateful?

       Whom can you thank today?

 

Showing gratitude increase your chances of receiving more of it and can improve all your relationships.

 

As I continue to help individuals and couples to communicate with more compassion, I realize how much the words “thank you” (and “I’m sorry”) have the power to change lives. 

 

It allows us to focus on the “half fullness” instead of the missing half.  

 

And, of course, what we focus on can increase by virtue of our attention and intention of creating more.

 

       What words of gratitude can you share with someone today – right now?

 

You can start here – with appreciation for yourself.

 

Thank you for being the wonderful person that you are.
Thank you for all you do to help others.
Thank you for all you want to share with the world.
Thank you for being willing to grow and learn.
Thank you, for allowing yourself to feel your feelings and express your needs.

Thank you for accepting and forgiving any ways in which you fall short of your own judgments and self criticisms.

 

Thank you, Linda, for taking care of your body, mind and spirit.
Thank you for the light you bring to all who know you.

 

Thanks again for EVERYTHING! 

Much love and gratitude,
 

 

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As the holidays approach, some relationships can become more challenging.

I am passionate about helping individuals, couples and families to communicate with more compassion and empathy.

 

I have spent the last five years learning how to go online to reach you wherever you are in world.

 

As my personal thank you, I want to be of service as much as I can.

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I am passionate about helping people add more empathy and compassion to their relationships. 

 

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I’d love to connect with you Live — wherever you are.

 

You can ask me anything, or send a question to Support@LindaKroll.com. I’ll answer your question Live and send you a link to the replay.

If you “Like” my Facebook Page, I will let you know when I’ll be available, and we can connect in real time.
 
I hope to see you soon! 
About Linda

As a therapist, mediator, attorney, and Chopra Certified Master Teacher of Meditation, Yoga and Ayurveda, I help individuals and couples learn Compassionate Communication for more peace, love and joy.

 

 

My Kindle book on Compassionate Divorce™::Changing the Face of Divorce, One Heart at a Time is available here:
 
I wish for you more SELF love and compassion
as we all become the change we hope to see in the world.
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Linda Kroll, LCPC, JD, Vedic Master • Founder, Compassionate Communication, Inc. 400 Lake Cook Road, Suite 217, Deerfield, Illinois 60015 United States

Instrument of Peace

I pray for peace.
Peace in my heart,
peace in my family,
peace in my country,
peace in the world.

I pray to be
An Instrument of Peace.

One to which one can attune,
not tune out.

One to whom someone can turn,
not avoid.
One to be soothing and healing
not cacophonous and loud.

I pray for harmony,
within and without

I pray for grace
and love and healing.

I ask that I be forgiven
for all the ways I have caused distress.

And that I be guided
to share joy and gratitude.

and with thanks to St. Francis of Assisi…..

Lord make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
And where there is sadness, joy.
O divine master grant that I may
not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
To be loved as to love
For it is in giving that we receive-
and it’s in pardoning that we are pardoned.
And it’s in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.

Stay or Go? Compassionate Mediation® Helps You Know!


“Should I stay or should I go?” is a question that I asked myself for over 30 years.

I married my college sweetheart. We had a wonderful time at the University of Wisconsin and married in 1969, so that ages myself.

Our first year felt like a frat house, so I thought, “Should I stay or should I go?”

But I was married to my dream man. We ended up having two dream children, and a dream home, and the dog and the life, and 20 years into the marriage, I was still asking, “Should I stay or should I go?”

I went to therapy. I talked to lawyers. I talked to everybody that would listen to me. I talked to my Rabbi. I prayed. I meditated.

I was an attorney by trade, but I didn’t really know what to do with that. I went back and became a mediator, because I thought if it was going to lead to a divorce, I would be able to mediate the divorce, which is very akin to deliver your own baby. It may be possible, but don’t do it, because you have no one advocating for you.

So, as a lifelong recovering codependent, I hung in there.

We separated after 20 years, and we were separated for 10 years before we got divorced.

And all along the way, I was looking for somebody that could meet me where I was, somebody who could help with the emotional piece that I was feeling, but give me some guidance that wasn’t, “Come back to marriage counseling,” where my husband wasn’t invested and I wasn’t sure I was invested. When I went to an attorney, and they had all the horror shows that they were going to portray from me, I wasn’t ready for that.

There was a part of me that thought I was keeping my family together, because even though we were separated, living elsewhere, and even dating other people, we were still married, and my children were still part of what I considered to be an “intact family.”

However, I was doing more harm than good.

When we finally got divorced, because I hadn’t finished the process I’m going to teach you today, later we had a post-divorce problem, and we were in court with the attorneys, with the typical adversarial process, and I remember when I was in the courthouse —  I don’t know if you’ve been in the courthouse yourself — but it was almost like I was watching the walking dead, the walking wounded, the walking dead. The people that were walking up and down those hallways were traumatized.

They were in crisis. They were being led by their attorneys. They had no idea how to communicate, and I was one of them.

I sat in the courtroom with my soon-to-be beloved ex-husband on one end, and I was on the other end, and I told myself… And our attorneys were back in the other room, because I was an attorney, but the judge didn’t want to hear from me. So the attorneys were talking about our future, and we were glaring on opposite sides of the courtroom.

I told myself there had to be a better way to do this.

I was already an attorney. I became an attorney after I graduated. I didn’t practice. I was able to stay home with my children, which is great. I wasn’t really an attorney by nature. I’m not a fighter. So when I became a mediator, that was a little better, but it still didn’t do it.

Then I met Dick Schwartz.

Okay, I met Dick Schwartz. He took me on the “Self up the mountain.”  Did he ever do that one with you? So when he took me and my SELF up the mountain, and I recognized all the parts of me that wanted to stay, wanted to go, hated him, loved him, scared, terrified, hopeful, excited ,,,,,I knew I was home.

I’ve probably counseled thousands of men and women, either individually or together, and for over 30 years.

I’ve also offered it online, which has helped people online in the program.

It’s a process that I want to hand you, and today, I want you to take as much as you can, leave what you don’t.

I think we all have the same mission, really.

You know, I’m going to show you the what, but it’s really more about the why today. Why would we do it?

I mean, we do it because we’re not just helping people make decisions. We’re helping them heal, and this is a process that helps them heal and either create a new relationship from the, “Should I stay or should I go?” or to create a peaceful and respectful separation and divorce.

Join Linda Kroll, Therapist, Mediator, Attorney, and author of Compassionate Mediation®: How to Add Passion to Your Marriage or Compassion to Your Divorce, and Compassionate Divorce™: Changing the Face of Divorce, One Heart at a Time — as she shares with you her transformational process of conflict resolution.

Get Linda’s FREE Compassionate Mediation Roadmap and free training to help your clients add passion to their marriage or compassion to their divorce. You can increase your impact, expertise and income with the skills you will receive.www.CompassionateMediationTraining.com

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