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Mike Rowe’s Show Honors Heartworks
Check out why 2.1 million viewers are watching this episode on Heartworks and how Mike Rowe surprised Megan McDowell, our Founder.
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To Live the Fullness of Life
On December 6, 2016 one of the people I have loved most in my life returned home to God at the age of 54 after a fourteen year journey with Stage 4 Breast Cancer. I was privileged to spend her final days by her bedside with her family. Mary and I had a glass of…
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Megan’s Thoughts this Thanksgiving
Every single year at this time, I think about Thanksgiving week, 2001- how it had been 10 weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks. It had been 72 days since we had seen my brother-in-law John, heard his voice, or sat at a table with him. The days leading up to that Thanksgiving Day seemed…
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Connection Day 2016
The air is feeling thick with fear and anxiety as this Election Day approaches. People seem to be bracing themselves for whatever is to come. It’s causing a pit in my stomach. I have been being asked what we can do on Tuesday to stay out of the chaos that may very well take over…
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Thoughts on Our October Meeting
Tuesday Night’s Meeting I sat alone at the Heartworks House long after I said goodbye to the last Heartworker on Tuesday night. The energy in the house was solid, connected and blessed and I wasn’t ready to leave just yet. To be honest, the hours leading up to the meeting made for a very long…
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What’s your mantra
A few weeks ago I was sitting at Design Squared, a Web Hosting company in Bernardsville with my friend Kathy working on our new Heartworks website. As usual, when Heartworks is the topic, the conversation moved from surface to depthful very quickly and we found ourselves talking about experiences we have had in life that…
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Interview with Megan reflecting on the 15th Anniversary of 9.11.01 and the Creation of Heartworks
By Paggy DeLong Interview with Megan McDowell, LPC, MSW, Heartworks Foundation Founder Interviewed by Peggy DeLong, PsyD 2016 marks the 15th anniversary of the attacks that occurred on our country on September 11, 2001. Often after tragedy, people are moved to make sense out of the suffering, and to do something meaningful. Megan McDowell of…
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Do not be afraid to Never Forget
For anyone feeling pulled by different commitments this 9/11 here are some thoughts… Do not be afraid to Never Forget.Do not be afraid to be vulnerable and softened by this anniversary.Do not be afraid to be still.Do not be afraid to say no to an invitation that doesn’t sit right with your soul and if…
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“Invoke Peace Day” planned on Sept 11 in Basking Ridge
September 7, 2016 Residents asked to bring ‘Peace Mums’ to Heartworks. BERNARDS TWP. – Fifteen years after one of the most tragic and violent days in American history, Heartworks is asking local residents to commemorate Sept. 11, 2001, through a community demonstration of peace… Read full article in The Bernardsville News here.
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9.11.16 Invoke Peace
This is an update on what is happening at Heartworks in the next week with the 15th anniversary of September 11th upon us. We want you to know about something powerful and sacred that we are planning for the upcoming anniversary. September 11, 2016 – INVOKE PEACE DAY We are asking all Heartworkers and anyone…
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Politics and a Strawberry
Like many other people I have been feeling crazed, exhausted, dumbfounded and scared by politicians preaching peace and then breeding hate by the end of the speech. I was feeling lost in the uncertainty of what has been happening in our country and around the world, until the other day, when I was washing a…