Under the weight of our emotional baggage, many of us carry opinions that aren’t ours.
We are all seeking to enter the Kingdom of God—the kingdom of love. And then we stub our toes, over and over, on difficulties with others. We’re full of goodwill and we know about basic spiritual truths and how important love is.
Yet obstacles still arise.
The main problem here is blindness—others’ and our own. In their blindness, others hurt us. In our own blindness, we don’t see how much we hurt them in return.
Whenever we think our suffering is caused by someone else, we are not in reality.
To keep believing this is to remain blind—and therefore lost.
We build these elaborate cases against others—and we see them so clearly—fortifying our position by focusing only on their errors. We need to turn that light on ourselves and see what we are doing. Because objectivity is a fundamental requirement for being unselfish—and for having the capacity to love.
The more we battle against what we can’t change—which largely includes everything and everyone—the more unhappy we become. This happens regardless of how right we are or how wrong the other may be.
Jill Loree grew up in northern Wisconsin with parents who embraced their Norwegian, Swedish and German heritage. Foods like lutefisk, lefse and krumkaka were prepared every Christmas. And of course there was plenty of beer, bratwurst and cheese all year round.
She would go on to throw pizzas and bartend while attending college at the University of Wisconsin, and then moved into a career in technical sales and marketing. She would settle in Atlanta in 1989 and discover that the sweet spot of her career would be in marketing communications. A true Gemini, she has a degree in chemistry and a flair for writing.
One of Jill’s greatest passions in life has been her spiritual path. Raised in the Lutheran faith, she became a more deeply spiritual person in the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) starting in 1989. In 1997, she was introduced to the wisdom of the Pathwork Guide, which she describes as “having walked through the doorway of a fourth step and found the whole library.”
In 2007, she completed four years of training to become a Pathwork Helper, and stepped fully into her Helpership in 2011. In addition to offering individual and group sessions, she has been a teacher in the Transformation Program offered by Mid-Atlantic Pathwork. She also led marketing activities for Sevenoaks Retreat Center in Madison, Virginia and served on their Board of Trustees.
In 2012, Jill completed four years of kabbalah training and became certified for hands-on healing using the energies embodied in the tree of life. She began dedicating her life to writing and teaching about personal self-development in 2014.
Today, Jill is the proud mom of two adult children, Charlie and Jackson, and is delighted to be married to Scott Wisler. She’s had more than one last name along the way and now happily uses her middle name as her last. It’s pronounced loh-REE. In 2022, Scott joined her full time in their mission to spread the teachings of the Pathwork Guide far and wide.
