Pardon the old and ignite the "New Year!" Let's reflect and embrace the inevitable impacts of Mercury Retrograde, coupled with our respective auras and frequencies during this pivotal/sentimental holiday season. This holiday interval unastonishingly yields and/or evokes a whirlwind of emotions, hyperactivity, lightheartedness and pressure/stress. Nostalgia is also profoundly prevalent among individuals globally in light of the encroaching New Year, which sparks hope and optimism. Hence, the inclination to literally and figuratively cleanse, declutter and/or purge becomes commonplace.

 

This season, the planetary dynamics of Mercury Retrograde (which commenced on December 3rd snd terminates December 22nd) is a chief constituent of this formula. Normia and our returning guest, Entrepreneuress /Life Coach, Nickie Brown will enlighten us about this critical phase. Moreover, they will cohesively expound upon the relevancy of our respective auras and frequencies (particularly during this holiday/Mercury Retrograde interval).

 

Thought provoking questions: What is Mercury Retrograde and how does it inevitably impact or befall us all? Moreover, how can we gracefully navigate or weather this comic storm? What frequency and/or signal are you emitting this season? Furthermore, what aura are you exuding? (What does your "auro-dometer" read? ) What protocol can you activate to cleanse and purge necessary components of your life in light of the aforementioned aspects: Mercury Retrograde, personal frequencies, alongside the approaching New Year (in efforts of affording a healthy equilibrium or recalibration)?

Friends or Foes? Allies or arch enemies? Can sisterhood and camaraderie be sustained within and beyond professional parameters? Affirmative! It's time to bury the hatchet ladies! Women individually and collectively withhold a myriad of gifts, rewards and assets. Hence, one woman's feats/talents compensates and compliments another female's shortcomings/deficiencies. Yet, rather than functioning interdependently, competition and divisiveness creates discord/tension among the feminine gender. Please join Normia and fellow entrepreneur/founder of Female Boss Tribe, Keisha Ifill, as they dialogue on the aforementioned topic. Intricate poetry and prose will be embedded as always for your fanciful listening. Thought provoking question: How can disharmony within the women's realm/community be dissolved/discharged to yield a peaceful equilibrium?

Here's a shortlist of Keisha Ifill's entrepreneurial/leadership business ventures:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-R0NK2WfodCN4cnwpHkVC4HkamYI-bOKIlcclv-hhsk/edit?usp=sharing

Does absence genuinely spur the heart to grow fonder?

As the post Thanksgiving dust and meals settle and digest, let's reflect upon the concept of reconfiguring and/or reformatting within and outside of relationships. In retrospect,

we've yet again canvassed a substantial degree of terrain embodying the Five Love Languages, in which I've amended via a "sixth element" per se. Moreover, we've pondered and explicated the concept of marital dissolutions. However, let's marinate upon the idea of taking sporadic sabbaticals within (and beyond) relationships. Please be advised, that relationships encompass romantic/marital, career, educational and familial categories to name a few. Furthermore, "taking five" within relationships isn't necessarily synonymous with a deficiency, but can be incorporated in the healthiest relationships/dynamics to sustain newness and vitality.

Please join Normia and special guest/founder of Single and Souled Out (A community which renders earthshattering events, pertinent education and resources to Christian Singles), Jennifer Wendy Brown as they slice into the nucleus of the topic at hand.

Thought provoking questions embody:

How can healthy sabbaticals (recalibrations) within and beyond various relationships yield an equilibrium for the entities involved?

Can specific examples be cited or identified in various cultures yielding successful outcomes by virtue of adopting healthy

sabbatical within relationships?

Foster love not war this sentimental season!

Intuitive Strategist/Expert Kristen Belisle and Normia torched the mic during our latter controversial episode. Marriage served as the forefront of the session. Please join the Cupid Coach (Psychic Life and Love Coach/Spirit Radio Host) Tahsha Renee and Normia for an engaging/avant garde episode encompassing the five love languages. The sentimental journey begins this effervescent session. What do they entail? How can such yield a cohesive, balanced relationship?

Additional information for Tahsha Renee can be found via:

https://www.cupidcoachforhire.com

To hold or fold? That is the question. Please join intuitive mindset strategist, energy healer and multidimensional channel, Kristen Belisle and Normia as they embark upon the aforementioned topic. The constitution of marriage has unquestionably evolved in a gamut of facets. Hence, coupled with diversified marital categories encompassing: civil, common law, covenant, arranged, love, polygamous, monogamous and most recently same sex to name a few, further complexities have become induced/emerged. Moreover, the rationale behind the decision to tie the knot and exchange vows has become increasingly vast and varied. On the contrary, there lies the inevitable scenario of couples merely "outgrowing" one another... running their course per se for a myriad of reasons. Thus, the controversial question of holding or folding ascends to the forefront. Is the phrase "Til death do us part" literal or figurative? Expert Kristen Belisle will shed insight on the issue at hand. Additional information about Kristen can be found via: https://www.kristenbelisle.com

 

Link to cited article by world renowned Life Transformation Specialist and best selling author, Dr. Barbara Rose:

https://borntoinspire.com/2012/07/26/till-death-do-us-part/

https://borntoinspire.com/about-barbara/

Let's decode the ebbs and flows of institutionalized/traditional education! Veteran Educators, Valine Zeigler and Dilip Barman shed knowledge, wisdom and expertise via keen vantage points (regarding modern education amid the prior two smashing episodes). Now that myths and stereotypes have been abruptly negated, please join Normia and Clinical Psychologist, Dr. Eliizabeth Hooks as she renders her thoughts and observations pertaining to student-teacher workloads. Are today's youth inundated with academic coursework? How can the equilibrium be restored between home and school in traditional academia?

Detailed info pertaining to Elizabeth Hooks, M.Ed., Psy.D.  can be found via:  https://www.csidurham.com/dr-liz-hooks

Just In!!!!!  Special encore broadcast featuring Dilip Barman!  

 

Social misfits no more! It's time to declare, defy and debunk/annihilate the myths befalling the homeschooling realm!  

Please join Normia and fellow homeschooling/veteran educator, Dilip Barman, as they delve into the nucleus of modern homeschooling/education. In efforts of fueling, "all things balance" via the Recalibrating the Scales Radio Show topic at hand, Dilip, a staunch professional and prominent instructor in the North Carolina Triangle, will render his additional perspective/sentiments on the subject. Clinical Psychologist, Liz Hooks will lend chime in next week to further expound upon this dense topic on Sunday November 5th at our usual time at 5PM EST.  What are the facts and fallacies pertaining to 21st century homeschooling? Are there any noteworthy trends among homeschool versus traditional students (advanced/higher knowledge learners, heightened versatility etc)? Are there any prevalent social impairments and/or distinction between the two? Tune in for an energetic dialogue amid prose and poetry while the negative stigma of homeschooling is gracefully laid to rest.

Homeschools... independent schools... charter schools ... and virtual learning, oh my!

Are homeschools, independent, charter and virtual educational mediums becoming the new public schools of today's era?Please join Empowered Minds Academy (a nontraditional independent school) professional educator, facilitator and organizer, Valine Zeigler and Normia as they slice into the nucleus of a dialogue regarding 21st century education.

The advent of vast and varied technological mediums/means has afforded a "myriad" of educational options, contrary to previous eras. Modern age education has undergone a metamorphosis or evolution affording a plethora of learning options ranging from virtual, homeschool, independent and charter school alternatives. Hence, are the aforementioned modern age options becoming the new "public schools?" Are traditional brick snd mortar schools gravitating towards becoming obsolete? Tune in to further explore this passion evoking topic.

Additional information pertaining to our special guest Valine Zeigler and/or Empowered Minds Academy can be found via: https://empoweredmindsacademy.com

The Inkblot Effect:  Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, perception is relative to the onlooker.  Life coupled with experience have been my quintessential teachers.   Moreover, one of my most profound lessons has been transcending the realm of static "black or white" thinking.   Nevertheless, purging and pardoning my former "linear thinking" in lieu of the grey shades scope ( no pun intended) has afforded me a myriad of breakthroughs and welcome lifestyle enhancements.  The evolution from mundane to three-dimensional thinking has yielded refreshing enlightenment. Please join fellow 3D-thinker and master illustrator/artist, Samantha Skipper and I, as we explore and decode the topic at hand. Please ask yourselves the following: It has been noted amid history and the masses, that perception is reality. What are your sentiments regarding this notion, and how does it pertain to you personally? How does art correlate with balance?  Can it be utilized as therapy?  Please expound upon this?   Glass half full, half empty or otherwise?   Please elaborate.  Have you always sustained this perspective or have you undergone a personal evolution. Additional information about Samantha Skipper can be found via: Sam Skipper Illustration and Art http://samghoulie.tumblr.com/

Original art by Sam Skipper is featuerd via the slideshow/player.  Additional art can be found via my Facebook page:  CarpeDiem Mentoring

Let's explore the art of intricate noise!  Please join our special guests, fellow Afternoon Poet/Wordsmith, Clark Holtzman and jazz drummer, David Shore for an effervescent episode comprised of tantalizing jazz meshed and mated with words. Clark and David commenced collaborating this past spring, arranging poetry to syncopated jazz rhythms. The concept was to inject classical an original poetry to yield an unconventional duo of voice and percussion. Featured literary works include rich poetic samples embodying: Shakespeare, Lord Byron, WB Yeats, EE Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Robert Hayden, Michael S. Harper and Clark Holtzman himself. Clark asserts that, "This is a program for everybody. We hope to fill the theater with young and old and every age in between. The book of poems accompanying the performance is worth the price of the admission itself." Clark and David will be featured at a special benefit for the Friends of the Seymour Center.   Details are as follows:

 

"SHAKESPEARE IN 5/4 TIME? THE SEYMOUR CENTER SYNCOPATES THE CLASSICS IN OCTOBER

Saturday, October 14—3:00-4:30 p.m. & Thursday, October 19—6:30-8:00 p.m.

Venue: Robert & Pearl Seymour Center 2551 Homestead Road, Chapel Hill, NC

$15 at the door:  Price of admission includes a book of poems: WORDS, JAZZ & HIP-HOP AT THE SEYMOUR CENTER THEATER: POETRY PERFORMED LIKE YOU’VE NEVER HEARD BEFORE.