Monday Message Archives - Empath Health

Challenging Our Illusion of Separateness – Monday Message

by Candyl Eyster | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation

If we hope to achieve some level of mutual understanding and shared sense of destiny, we must on a fundamental level, challenge the illusion of our separateness and embrace the fact that our fates and our fortunes are inextricably intertwined. Here is how Trappist...

Listen to Your Life – Monday Message

by Candyl Eyster | Aug 31, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

Poet and theologian Frederick Buechner writes words of wisdom for us that still resonate today, “Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less in the excitement and gladness . . . because in the last analysis...

Where We Find Our Meaning

by Candyl Eyster | Aug 20, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

It is easy to become so caught up in how people respond to the things we do that we are robbed of the fulfillment that came from doing them. Mother Theresa knew a little something about that. She gives us this advice: People are often unreasonable and self-centered....

Monday Morning Gratitude

by Candyl Eyster | Aug 9, 2020 | Monday Message, Monday Motivation

The daily practice of gratitude involves a conscious choice to swim against the current of our natural human tendency to take things for granted. To walk by natural beauty without so much as a pause of appreciation. To fail to realize every day the inestimable value...

Hope on the Horizon

by Candyl Eyster | Aug 2, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation

What a wonderful and powerful thing hope is. Undeterred by those forces which seek to thwart the upward rise of the soul, it forges forward with the vision firmly in view of what could be, what should be. May we find the embers of hope within our own hearts and fan...

Nurture Your Soul With Nature

by Candyl Eyster | Jul 27, 2020 | Blog, Monday Message, Monday Motivation

In a conversation with a colleague, we both shared how connecting with beauty in nature has been such an important part of staying grounded recently. There is something about trees waving in the wind and waves rolling in on a sandy beach and beautiful sunsets and...