Joy Vanderbeck’s Blog

Joy Vanderbeck’s Blog2020-04-29T14:49:33-05:00

Joy shares her wisdom on life and the universe through storytelling, meditations, and by passing on her real world experience.  She illustrates how the mind is a powerful tool when clarity of vision, unwavering focus, and uplifting thoughts combine to affect change in the world.

Straight Ahead! Everything is Possible!

I Choose to Embrace What I DO Have

Christmas can be a time of great joy. Christmas can also be a time of great sadness. What causes the difference? Sadness abounds when a person focuses on what they do NOT have. This was brought home to me just this last week.Decorating for Christmas is so much fun for me! I remembered that my [...]

By |December 16th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Are Your Relationships Healthy?

The Karpman Relationship Drama Triangle is a very common, yet very destructive way of relating. Many of us hop on this triangle without realizing we are doing it.The following story makes the dynamics of the Relationship (Karpman) Drama Triangle easily understood.The woman makes dinner. The alcoholic husband, usually home by six o’clock, does not arrive. [...]

By |August 19th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Are you behind a Rock?

I love Harry Potter! I realized that I had not seen the latest movie, "Half Blood Prince." Because it had been awhile since I had watched the previous movies, I decided to start at the beginning and watch them all the way through to the "Half Blood Prince."What I noticed was that Harry was phenomenally [...]

By |August 5th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Are you living your dream?

“The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream” -- Harry Kemp.My passion is to assist people in remembering and then achieving their dreams!I am happy to announce a wonderfully inspiring recording, "Every Challenge has a Solution," that is now available from my office. Handouts are [...]

By |July 29th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Clarity about Living on Purpose — From my Upcoming Book

My First Message about my PurposeIn 1970 I received my first clear message about my Purpose. Two of my flower child friends and I rode a couple of hours drive west of Ft. Worth Texas to Possum Kingdom Lake. It was barely daybreak when we arrived. Somehow I got it that if I could get [...]

By |July 5th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Set no limitations on the power of thought

This is an excerpt from my exciting, upcoming book:“My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.” Wilma Rudolph. Wilma chose to believe the positive. She chose the belief that would take her to greatness rather than the belief that would take her to being [...]

By |June 7th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

A Heart Made Whole

Jeffery, (not his real name) came to me for help when he was in the midst of extreme emotional angst and marital discord. This was Jeffery's second marriage. Jeffery and his current wife had been separated multiple times. He endured roller coaster emotions as his current wife continued to want to leave him. Jeffery's first [...]

By |May 18th, 2010|Categories: Blog|

Make it come to you

“Some say go for it. I say make it come to you.” GarfieldI like to think of using tools for Conscious Creating to be like riding on an air mattress on top of the water. To live your life efforting, trying, manipulating, stressing and winding up out of the flow, exhausted and with results that [...]

By |May 12th, 2010|Categories: Blog|
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