Join us this year and let us guide you in crafting a prayer and distilling it to its essence – as an invocation that will guide and inspire you in the new year – towards manifesting your soul’s dreams. Dr. Joel Ying and Suzanne Scurlock have been co-teaching the Release & Renewal Workshop for over …Read More
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Transforming Your Life Story
At some point while working full time as a hospitalist doctor nearly two decades ago, I began to feel thin. I remember standing outside leaving a meeting at the home of one of the other doctors. The day was sunny and warm, just before the start of the really hot summer in Florida. The heat …Read More
Setting Intentions for 2023 ~ Online Workshop
“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it” ~ Paulo Coelho As the year comes to a close, I look back at what I have accomplished. Then, I look forward, what do I want for this new year? The universe will help me to achieve it… “If you don’t …Read More
Release & Renewal: January 2023
Are you feeling stuck? Get ready to release 2022… and step into 2023 with renewed energy. We’ve got something new planned. New processes to tune into the Wisdom areas to create an embodied prayer. New stories and ceremony to enter into sacred space and time together. “If you don’t know where you are going, any …Read More
My Personal Prayer for 2022
On this second day of the new year, I step into the ritual of looking at the year ahead. I celebrate beginnings and endings in the same way that I marvel at the sunrise and the sunset, marking time with their beauty. Today, I sink into my intention for the year. From a place of …Read More
New Year Intentions ~ New Normal
In March of 2019, with a pandemic looming on the horizon in the United States, I decided this was a good time to take a break. (I was determined to make the most of a strange situation. How long could this last anyway?) I rested, then I watched video courses on Storytelling from home. Then, …Read More
The Moment One Definitely Commits ~ W. H. Murray
“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one …Read More
Storytelling as Medicine, Online Courses
I’m a physician and storyteller. How does a physician become a storyteller? Well, that’s a long story (coming soon), but right now I’ll just say that “healing” comes to us in so many different way. Today, along with my stethoscope and my prescription pad … I carry stories as my medicine. Stories are Medicine Stories …Read More
Release and Renewal ~ Finding Community
One month to go.What do you want to release from 2020? In December of 1979, my parents moved from Jamaica to Florida. Only in retrospect can I look back and honor all that they left behind: the country that they were born in, the close support of family and friends, a business that they had built. However, …Read More
Attitude of Gratitude ~ Release and Renewal
I am grateful for you. Thank you for your support and encouragement. Every few years, this blog/newsletter undergoes a shift. Here we go again. I feel another one coming. It was more than 5 years ago that I was first captivated by storytelling magic. One person on stage, no props, no special visual effects… just …Read More