Groups

  • Beliefnet Members for Barack Obama
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    Beliefnet Members for Barack Obama
    Status: Member
    Description: This group was created for supporters of Barack Obama for President to discuss the campaign, the issues, and voters' concerns. As a member of this caucus group you can start a discussion below by posting a new thread, get involved in an ongoing DISCUSSION, post a PHOTO to support your candidate, comment on a group journal post by going to the JOURNAL link to the left, INVITE friends and fellow supporters to join your cause. Futhermore, you can request to be a MODERATOR and lead the group, posting events in the CALENDAR, making ANNOUNCEMENTS and focusing the groups mission and creative energies. So, sign up and get involved now!
  • Self-care for Caregivers
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    Self-care for Caregivers
    Status: Member
    Description: While the intention is to primarily share among professional caregivers, (nurses, aides, chaplains and other clergy, social workers, volunteers, doctors, and others), family caregivers are certainly welcome as well. We support each other in avoiding burnout and "compassion fatigue" by sharing stories and feelings about our caregiving experiences, and ways we have found to promote healing self-care. First-timers may want to check out the "Compassion Fatigue material" in the thread by that name below.
  • Kick in the Tush Club
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    Kick in the Tush Club
    Status: Member
    Description: The Kick in the Tush Club is for light-hearted, low-cal loving, nutritional friendly folks who crave mammoth portions of food-facts, recipes, art and inspiration. We are on a mission! To Make Weight Loss Fun!!! Our guide is Our Lady of Weight Loss. She helped me to lose over 50 pounds 6 years ago. (after a life-time of yo'yo'ing). We will dish the dirt, swap recipes and push, pull and support each other on the road to Sveltesville. (FYI, Sveltesville is where Our Lady of Weight Loss lives.)
  • Being Ourself
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    Being Ourself
    Status: Member
    Description: This is a group for people who recognize in a profoundly personal way that we are all actually facets of one whole interacting with itself, or more accurately, Ourself. It is a place for peer discussion and exploration as we move through the challenges and insights we encounter while participating in the awakening of ourselves to our common fundamental identity, Ourself. As indivisible aspects of the single, infinitely diverse entity of everything/reality/creation we all have an opportunity and a responsibility to deepen humankind's awareness of Ourself, and to enrich our language with new terminology/ideas to more accurately portray that which truly is. We want to support each other as we discover wholeness while living in a society that defines everything (including God) as separate when in fact the creator and creation (including all people, animals, plants, minerals, and seen and unseen forces of spirit) are not in any actual way separate. So don't be shy... your vantage point of the whole is completely unique, and is just as valid and important as anybody elses. Enlightenment is the recognition of the wholeness, which by its very all-inclusive nature negates the validity of any kind of exclusive spiritual authority or guru. To allow ourselves to truly feel and be aware of ourselves as part of the great wholeness we need to stop putting others on a pedestal as a way of avoiding being accountable for shining our own light. Let's get the orchestra of the wholeness playing diversely, brilliantly, and powerfully enough to wake up humankind from the illusion of separateness. We can only accomplish this as a community of distinct voices and insights singing out in the harmony of the whole, and not by silencing our own special voice because we have decided some other "enlightened" teacher has a monopoly on authenticity! So sing out your insights, your questions... cry out your pains and frustrations... and love your neighbor as yourself because in truth they are; we are all precious dimensions of one whole. Let's respectfully, gently, and lovingly be Ourself together.