Adele R. McDowell, Ph.D.
Adele's focus is opening the heart. She is all about moving out of the stuckness of life into the great flow where there is joy, laughter, and connection. She believes all things are possible.
Her work is psychospiritual; the psychology does not get forgotten, but it is expanded to include the permutations of the psyche, the mystery of the sacred, paths of energy, and a broader, soul perspective.
Her website is www.channeledgrace.com; her email address is channeledgrace@aol.com
Articles by Adele R. McDowell, Ph.D.
September 19, 2009
Do you believe in reincarnation? Past lives? A regular, hard-working, church-going couple were faced with these very questions when their two-year-old son began have unremitting nightmares and shouting strange words.
August 31, 2009
Thank you, Ted Kennedy, for being such a power of example. You were a master of endurance and resiliency. You made big, messy, all-the-world-knows-about-it kinds of mistakes; and, silver-spoon-birthright notwithstanding, you picked up your red-faced self, course corrected, and carried forward.
August 21, 2009
It stands to reason that mindfulness would cozy up to sex – and it has. At the OneTaste Urban Retreat Center, orgasm meets meditation, and slow sex becomes a series of classes.
July 31, 2009
This is a book that has generated a great deal of conversation. Some love it; some hate it.
For 61 weeks and counting, The Shack by Wm. Paul Young has been on The New York Times bestseller list.
July 20, 2009
Today, Jimmy Carter stood up -- and stood out -- as he walked away from the Southern Baptist Church, his spiritual home of more than 60 years. Why did he take this action?
July 14, 2009
Every life, good, bad, or curious, leaves a legacy. Michael Jackson is no exception. Some of his legacy includes what I call spiritual lessons, and they are evidenced by his music, videos, long-range humanitarian work and philanthropy.
June 15, 2009
Be very, very gentle with yourself. It is hard, exhausting, excruciating work to make sense of the un-sensible and to unpack and repack a life that you have held with such reverence and tenderness.
June 07, 2009
I want to be suspended in space, floating freely and weightlessly in cool, blue-green water. This summer, my vacation is to go glub, glub, glub and, metaphorically, dive into the quiet, watery depths.
May 31, 2009
It happened at Mount Holyoke. There was a trifecta of honorary degrees conferred, and each of these women spoke. There was a Princess Educator, a world renowned scientist, and the featured commencement speaker, the President of Ireland.
May 18, 2009
Here are 50 ways to feed your soul. May you be reminded of what turns you on, fills you up, and lights your bulb.
May 08, 2009
´Tis the season when a grown woman´s fancy turns to new life, beauty, and promise. She finds herself awash in life and zingy with energy.
April 30, 2009
The Internet is a precursor, a learning tool to teach all of us the yet-to-come energetic ways of being. And the ways of energy are simple: everything is connected, and there are no secrets.
April 09, 2009
One family, three Toms and six weeks; the interconnectedness of it all gives me pause. The causes of death: murder, the complications of old age, and a sudden heart attack.
March 27, 2009
"Satan" was not a word frequently used in my childhood. I can´t even type the word "Satan" correctly; it keeps coming out "Stan." "Are you Stan?" loses something in the translation.
March 19, 2009
We, the people, want responsible and responsive leaders. We are frustrated and angry at the state of the nation. We need creative solutions, shared visions and handshakes across the table, not under the table.
March 12, 2009
am a person rooted in a country founded on religious freedom. The whole one-teacher, one-path seems so singular and limiting. I am not someone who drinks the Kool-Aid, but am I in denial?
March 04, 2009
I work hard not to polarize the situation and make you the boneheaded, unseeing, completely out-of-your-cotton-pickin´-mind wrong one as I shine in dazzling superiority as the one who knows best.
February 26, 2009
Eating tranquilizers, pounding Jack, inhaling carbs? Do you need to be sedated before you watch the evening news? Was Chicken Little right, and the sky is falling? Are we about to live Cormac McCarthy´s version of The Road? Here´s how to cope.
February 17, 2009
As if plugged in to a socket, I was lit with inspiration, filled with the glimmer of God. My being was illuminated. The epiphany popped right out of me. And there it was, in all of its ephemeral glory, standing next to the bread basket.
February 11, 2009
Listless? Bored? Pressing the snooze button God? Many spiritual sojourners are finding themselves smack dab in the middle of stuck. They are experiencing the symptoms of spiritual depression. What exactly is spiritual depression and how do you cope with it?
February 04, 2009
Serious, very serious issues abound and yet, like Jell-O, there seems to be a lot of wiggle room along with some general knuckleheaded-ness. Let´s roll the videotape and take a look at some of January´s bonehead moves and this month´s Hall of Shame.
January 27, 2009
What about the energetics of weight loss? If everything is energy, wouldn´t it make sense that weight can also be viewed through this lens?
January 20, 2009
Be still, my soul. It is a week of miracles, from the Miracle on the Hudson to the Inauguration, another kind of miracle in the United States. I find myself filled with emotion, tears at the ready. It is a time of deep healing.
January 13, 2009
"Last year I returned from India with dysentery. I was easily cured. But I´d seen so many kids living in squalor there, and I learned that for impoverished kids … diarrhea can be a death sentence. 5,000 kids die every day for a lack of clean drinking water."
January 05, 2009
What have we learned – or, at the very least, been reminded of -- this past year? What do we need to carry in our respective cosmic backpacks for the coming year? Herewith is your packing list for 2009.
December 28, 2008
I am – on every level -- floundering. And as the word conjures, I am flipping and flailing on a wooden dock, off the hook and no where to go, save the ultimate frying pan. Clearly, things aren´t going so well.
December 23, 2008
Just like Santa down the chimney, they said it was coming, but I didn´t believe. I didn´t want to believe that Wall Street would choose to give out $1.6 billion in bonuses this year. I´m no Scrooge, but how does this make sense?
December 17, 2008
What do you do if you find yourself standing in the dark and not wanting to be swept up in the holiday razzle dazzle? Let´s talk strategies to help you get through without self-destructing or curling up into a fetal position and waiting for it all to be over.
December 14, 2008
You professed due diligence, but when one instrument folded; you simply redirected everyone´s attention and cash to the next shiny object. You knew it was a ponzi scheme – and therein lies the rub.
December 06, 2008
I deliberately choose yoga. I want to start slowly and carefully; yoga should do the trick. I will be on a mat on the floor. How hard can this be? It´s about stretching and breathing; I can stretch, I can breathe. This should be doable.
November 27, 2008
With a bow to Wall Street arrogance, the wisdom of St. Francis of Assisi, personal crankiness and the songs of Julie Andrews, let´s look at my favorite thing.
November 22, 2008
"I say that religion isn´t about believing things. It´s ethical alchemy. It´s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness."
November 18, 2008
I like James Bond. I like him for all the obvious reasons. He is dashing, witty, intelligent, sexy, fun, etc., but it's his less obvious qualities that make me a hard-core admirer.
November 15, 2008
This is the moment we have been waiting for; there are no more warm-ups. Practice is over. It is time to suit up and get in the game. Our souls have been preparing for this moment for lifetimes. Here are four steps to walk the walk.
November 07, 2008
There has been a palpable shift in the landscape. We are no longer the same.
Tuesday night gave us all a good dose of the medicine we need; we are no longer constricted and paralyzed.
October 24, 2008
Vulnerability can come as a surprise in a hurricane, the betrayal of a loved one or the ill advisement of a mortgage banker. It takes many shapes and forms. It fits all ages.
October 16, 2008
I think we are in for some unpredictable storms, and our end game is to ride out these storms as easily and elegantly as possible. I suggest we need to become sea-worthy.
October 11, 2008
The dentist, knowing my profession, teased me this morning and asked if people were ready to jump out of buildings. How can you ride out this tilt-a-whirl of economics and emotions? Here are 10 suggestions to help you through the uncertainty.
October 02, 2008
We make bartenders responsible if they over serve you, you drive home drunk and end up in an accident. Can´t we tackle the white-collar crowd and make them pay for their greed and disregard? Hell, I think we all have been over-served and ended up in an accident.
September 10, 2008
I listen to beep, bang, whir, clickety-clack, calling all passengers to gate 10 and the ceaseless cacophony associated with air travel. The noise becomes a discordant din played like some kind of edgy jazz. Then, the whole gestalt begins to shift.
September 05, 2008
What do you have when you gather a conference of shamans, healers and researchers to share the latest? You have options, hope and seeming miracles.
August 29, 2008
But the alarm clock continues to ring … These betwixt times are full of unstable weather patterns and mark the beginning of both the hurricane and election seasons.
August 22, 2008
Yet, as much as I say I want balance; it can seem so boring. It reminds me of a flat line on a medical device. "Sorry, Doctor, the patient has died." Do you know what I mean?
August 14, 2008
Research tells us that it takes a full 10 days for vacationers to unpretzel their knotted, stressed, overworked and travel-ambushed bodies. At which point, they can now take a full breath and not pass out from the rush of oxygen to their brains.
August 07, 2008
And they are the knots of flashing, pulsating lights -- always a signature of trouble. The fire trucks are lit up like big, red boats effortlessly plowing through the waves of darkness.
August 01, 2008
If you are open to it, there is behind-the-scenes help on the way from the spiritual hierarchy. Their message is to share or die.
July 24, 2008
"The F-it´s" are a hell-hole of a place to be. And this place is not reserved just for the addicted.
July 10, 2008
"Many farmers have little or no yield, year after year. Having gone deeply in debt to these chemical companies, the farmers begin to feel hopeless. Unfortunately, large numbers of Indian farmers are committing suicide by drinking their pesticides."
June 26, 2008
That´s right, folks. We are offering four more inches of luxurious leg room in our main cabin. Relax your knees; they no longer have to stay under your chin. We are talking the most elongated, spacious inches available in aviation today.
June 19, 2008
I heard that George Clooney sent flowers to the Russert family with a card that read, "There are no words." George has a point. However, my gym has a saying painted on the wall that seems to sum up Tim Russert. It reads: "Power is not revealed by striking hard or by striking often, but by striking true." Russert did just that: he struck true.
June 15, 2008
Welcome to a wee weekday parable about a very hard working person and the gods´ agenda that asks the question: Is it all really Mickey Mouse or are there numbers for fun?
June 05, 2008
Mathematics has proofs; logic has syllogisms, and science has double-blind studies. What about the media? Are they exempt? Do they get to be their own kind of shoot-´em-up cowboys and fashion the information at whim?
May 30, 2008
I can´t stop saying the word enough. I am right, right, right. I love the way that sounds. I love the way it feels. Does Hallmark make a card for this?
May 23, 2008
Ultimately, you will learn to honor yourself. These lessons are hard won. There was no 8 a.m. class. Your parents and teachers planted the first seeds of self-worth, but you learn by experience. It is all about that great graduate school called life.
May 17, 2008
Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, over the years since I left my hometown, I have met the good witch, the bad witch and those devilish flying monkeys. I have traveled the Yellow Brick Road. Even better, I have found those ruby slippers.
May 08, 2008
Do you remember the first time you heard your recorded voice being played back to you? Your voice sounded foreign; it was not the voice you heard when you spoke aloud. I am like that when it comes to seeing myself in pictures.
May 02, 2008
And as adults we are often loathe to admit that our feelings have been hurt by our friend; it sounds like grade school and feels so high school. Aren´t we, grown adults, supposed to be beyond that?
April 27, 2008
Psychologically-speaking, spring is a time of individuation. We are called to be our very own kind of daffodil. Yet, all the pushing and pulling is essentially a drive for that one, very, all-encompassing state of being called balance.
April 25, 2008
Here is our blue-green planet bobbling away in this great galactic soup. She is holding up her place in the multiverse, rotating regularly, and keeping up all afloat, but like many of us, Mother E. is very tired, very depleted and having difficulty maintaining her balance.
April 24, 2008
Is your soul stuck? Trapped into a corner with no exits in sight? Is it screaming, "Get me outta here." Here are six ways to help you spring your soul free from its tight prison.
April 21, 2008
Stress is a given in today´s fast-paced, over-achieving, information-overloaded and increasingly technical world. We all have it; we all know it. So, what are we to do? Read on for some practical solutions, including six methods of meditation.
April 18, 2008
While viewing their web cast with my 2 million fellow students around the world, I have found myself having great debates from my couch with Oprah and Eckhart. I feel a need to defend the ego.
April 17, 2008
A collapsed Catholic takes a few familiar words out for a spin in a new direction.