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Love and Miracles

by Hollye Dexter | May 8, 2015 | hope through adversity, Howard Jones, Jammin' for Jones, miracles, the power of positive thinking

 March was the month from hell. It really was. I started to backslide into old negative belief patterns that I was unlucky, that this was my fate – had always been my fate, that bad things just randomly happen to me, etc…But then I stopped myself and said, “No,...

Faith Vs Common Sense

by Hollye Dexter | Dec 1, 2013 | 21 Day Meditation Challenge, Deepak Chopra, Jamaica, miracles, positive thinking

 “Faith is believing in something even when common sense tells you not to.” – Maureen O’Hara,  Miracle on 34th StreetThis Summer, in the midst of financial crisis that overwhelmed us, I knew we wouldn’t  be doing...

Reclaiming Joy III: Gratitude

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 2, 2013 | gratitude, life lessons, Marianne Williamson, miracles, positive thinking, reclaiming joy, surviving disaster

“A miracle is a shift in perception.” – Marianne Williamson In my last post, I talked about the scientific fact that nature abhors a vacuum, and that when you release negative energy from your life, something else will rush in to fill that space. And wow oh wow has...

“Oh Me of Little Faith”

by Hollye Dexter | Apr 7, 2013 | answered prayers, faith, miracles, motherhood, parenting, prayer

As many of you know, I’ve been on a daily practice of meditation and prayer, and my life has begun to shift. (If you read any of my blogs from the disastrous years of 2010 and 2011, you know I’ve come a long way. Faith was my only way out of darkness.)...

Tiny Miracles

by Hollye Dexter | Dec 13, 2012 | angels, animal spirits, answered prayers, believe in miracles, Christmas miracle, faith, finches, messengers, miracles

Let me preface this story by explaining my history with finches. Ever since I can remember, whenever things became hopeless in my life, finches would appear out of nowhere. Suddenly the trees and bushes around me would fill with them, coming alive with their birdsong....

Answered Prayers

by Hollye Dexter | Oct 17, 2012 | faith, healing family relationships, Japan custody laws, miracles, prayer, the power of love, the power of positive thinking

When you put your faith in love…Troy is home from Japan with videos and pics of our grandbaby Ayumu, and as I peruse them again and again, I am overwhelmed with gratitude. I prayed for this EVERY day for a year. I woke up each morning, and thought about Ayumu. I...
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About Hollye

Hollye Dexter is author of the memoir Fire Season (She Writes Press, 2015) and co-editor of Dancing at the Shame Prom (Seal Press). Called “moving” and “inspiring on so many levels” by FIRST FOR WOMEN Magazine, Fire Season was also an NIEA finalist for BEST MEMOIR. Hollye’s essays and articles about women’s issues, activism and parenting have been published in anthologies as well as in Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change, Huffington Post, The Feminist Wire, Writer’s Digest and more. In 2003, she founded the award-winning nonprofit Art and Soul, running arts workshops for teenagers in the foster care system.

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