This Christmas, Give the Gift of Louise Hay

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If you're like me, Amazon is one of your favorite online shopping destinations. However, if you want to receive your Christmas gifts by Christmas, you only have 5 days left to order. To help you with your shopping decision, I have compiled some Louise Hay products that I hope you will consider buying and purchasing through the product links below. (By doing so, you will help to support my blog). I have put all of these Louise Hay products on my Christmas shopping List. Once you purchase them, let's compare notes on how useful they are to our lives!!! By the way..MERRY CHRISTMAS.

YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE

This classic work is the book that started it all. Louise Hay went from childhood sexual abuse to becoming a spiritual teacher and a bestselling author to owning her own publishing company. How awesome is that?!!! Remember...what she did, you can do to!

HEAL YOUR BODY A-Z

This is definite a book that I want to read.

YOUCAN CREATE AN EXCEPTION LIFE

This book, written with Cheryl Ricardson, is Louise Hay's most recent book.

MEDITATIONS TO HEAL YOUR LIFE

I have never heard of this book, but it seems like something I want to read!

KINDLE FIRE

Finally, if you can't wait to receive a Louise Hay book in the mail, you need to buy the Kindle Fire. It's a combination of a Kindle reader and an Ipad (only much, MUCH cheaper).

My Relationship with my Dad

In a previous post, I wrote a bit about my Mom. Now I’d like to talk about my Dad.

He was born, Francois Deleon de La Grange but everyone either called him DeLeon or Red (for his red hair). He met Mom when he was on leave from the navy, and they immediately fell in love. Dad, apparently (according to Mom), took some taming. Mom told and re-told dramatic stories of how she almost ended their relationship because of his womanizing.

Dad with his grandmother.

At the time they met, Dad was a bit of a hellion (even Dad said so). He was a weightlifter and very muscular. He had always been a “scrapper,” as Dad termed it. A bit cocky, he never backed away from a fight. That all changed when he hurt his back toward the end of his time in the military. He became less confrontational and—perhaps in Mom’s eyes—less of a man.

I’ll write more about their relationship with each other and with their children in future posts, but here’s a highlight: my parents did not have a smooth relationship. Mom was a drama queen who could go into a rage at the slightest provocation (and we never knew what the trigger would be.) Dad was passive…the calm, level-headed, peace maker, always running after Mom when she’d pretend to be leaving him.

Dad’s explanation of why she treated him so badly? He told me that after he had hurt his back, he became a different man than what Mom thought she had married. Here she thought she had married a hellion (or at least a stallion) just like her. Instead, she ended up with a Caspar Milquetoast (in her opinion). Mom, of course, never saw his calmness as strength. Whether true or not, Dad’s assertion makes sense. Mom had always been attracted to danger, even to violence.

So thus began a relationship that spawned 6 children together and 1 from Mom’s previous marriage (who Dad adopted). I and each of my siblings reacted to their relationship in different ways. But, in time, almost all of us constantly felt sorry for Dad for the way Mom treated him. At times, we even tried to protect him. It shouldn’t be a surprise, then, that many of us developed co-dependent relationships later on.  

Speaking of later on…I will be back with another installment in a few days.

In the meantime, here’s some thoughts to ponder:

If you’re a woman, how did your childhood relationship with your father influence you?

Was your father dominant or passive and how did this impact you?

Why do you think you chose this father for this lifetime? What were you supposed to learn from him?