The Ultimate Sacrifice

By kathleen.hall on August 11, 2009 in Spirituality

Walking by the lake today I noticed our two baby ducks are swimming alone. I immediately began to cry. Their precious mother must be dead. She was an amazing mother. Every time our dogs got close to her little ducklings when they were first born, she would fling her wings at the dogs and dive toward our dogs to protect her babies. I watched her for weeks fiercely protect and guide her little ducklings as she taught them the lessons of survival. She paid the ultimate sacrifice. She diverted some attack from a predator to save her little ones. It brought up so many profound feelings in me about the nature of motherhood in all creation. Yes, we have that seed planted deep within our souls to protect our children at all costs, even our own life. So many times my husband and I have had lengthy discussions on why mothers embody such self sacrifice. It’s a soul issue. We conceived them, we grew them in our bellies, we fed them with our milk, we sheltered them, protected them, taught them, loved them and ultimately had to release them into the world. Mother duck did her job. She raised her little babies to be old enough to survive on their own. God bless you Mother Duck!

About kathleen.hall

Dr. Kathleen Hall, internationally recognized stress and work-life balance expert, is the founder and CEO of The Stress Institute®, The Mindful Living Network® and Alter Your Life®. Dr. Hall’s life’s work is to teach others how to reduce stress by learning how to live a sustainable, balanced life of true happiness through mindful living. Combining research based medical models with universal spiritual practices, she has developed a life-altering stress reduction and lifestyle program she calls, “Where Science Meets the Soul®.”

During times of stress and crisis, the international television and print media consistently seek the authoritative knowledge, information and direction of Dr. Kathleen Hall. Dr. Hall's advice has been featured by all the major national media including NBC's The Today Show, Oprah & Friends, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, CNN Paula Zahn Now, CNN Headline News, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN International, FOX, ESPN.com, Good Morning America Radio, Martha Stewart Radio, Fortune, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Associated Press, Money Magazine, Business Week, Parents, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, Real Simple, Body + Soul, and Woman’s Day.

Dr. Hall is the Author of A Life in Balance: Nourishing the Four Roots of True Happiness (AMACOM, January 2006) and Alter Your Life: Overbooked? Overworked? Overwhelmed? (Oak Haven, April 2005) and a new book in Fall 2009.

Dr. Hall is a contributing writer for PINK Magazine. She is also the Global Ambassador for the Unilever/Knorr Soup Campaign - Eat Soup, Live Healthy; World thought leader to Fortune 500 Corporations; Electronic Arts spokesperson (Pogo.com); Darden Restaurant spokesperson, Tempur-Pedic spokesperson. Martha Stewart Publications coined her the "Stress Queen."

Dr. Hall earned a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Jacksonville State University, a Masters of Divinity from Emory University and a Doctorate in Spirituality from Columbia Theological Seminary. Her diverse background includes study with medical pioneer’s Dr. Dean Ornish of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and Dr. Herbert Benson at the Harvard Mind/Body Institute as well as illustrious Nobel Peace Prize recipients including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and President Jimmy Carter.

She lives on her horse farm where her family rescues animals. She loves her flower and vegetable gardens and enjoys canning her foods.

More information about Dr. Kathleen Hall can be found at www.drkathleenhall.com, www.stressinstitute.com , and www.mindfullivingnetwork.

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