Sally Lane Brookman
My name is Sally Lane Brookman. If you met me on the street, you’d probably wonder if you knew me from somewhere else, from another city or another time in your life. But unless you have lived or do...
View ArticleMe on the Air: YouTube and Ustream
Hey friends. I’ve created my own Ustream Channel http://www.ustream.tv/channel/running-from-hell-with-el. I’ve also created a YouTube channel:...
View ArticleYouTube: I Won’t Be Quiet Anymore
A day ago, I read about Rehtaeh Parson and made a video in which I vow that I won’t be quiet anymore. This video has already gotten 320 views and I am sincerely hoping it gets a whole lot more. I know...
View ArticleBoston Marathon: Finding Joy among the Wreckage
I made this video last night to speak about how we can find happiness even when we’re sad, grieving, scared, traumatized and in pain. Please folks, instead of watching negative and scary news this...
View ArticleForgiveness
I Run, A Novel, is about a woman’s healing from child abuse, addiction and self-abuse. In the following conversation, the main character, Sally Lane Brookman is talking to her inner child. “Am I...
View ArticleDiving into, no through, Darkness: with God
I tried to meditate this morning, and some crazy stuff went down. What I was supposed to do was to turn inward, moving past all the noise, the insanity of my life, until I could sit with God. Today’s...
View ArticleI Saw an Angel
Friends, a piece I wrote has been picked up by Yahoo, which makes me feel happy. It’s an honest, simple story celebrating God, and little children who haven’t learned to stop believing in Him. As I am...
View ArticleSpirituality and Sexuality: How Rape Fantasies Hurt Abuse Survivors
I read an interesting article yesterday, written by August McLaughlin, about how rape fantasies can help women heal. Initially, I felt this heaviness in my heart when I read just the phrase “rape...
View ArticleSermon on On Gays, Love, and God
God may have inspired all of the books that exist in the Bible, but He didn’t write all of them. Even the gospels he wrote or helped write, such as Kings, Songs, Proverbs and parts of Psalms, Job, and...
View ArticleThe Great Mystery: Love
The Sufi and Eastern mystics say that the key to realizing God is to empty yourself and they’re right. Once you empty out all the things of this world, the wantings and longings driven by ego and...
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