Photo by Stormseeker on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In The Myth of Normal, Dr. Gabor Maté writes that “[t]he meaning of the word ‘trauma,’ in its Greek origin, is ‘wound.’ Whether we realize it or not, it is our woundedness, orContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Trauma”
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Healing America’s Narratives: Self-Compassion
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Now available.] Most of us who are more or less healthy have no problem extending compassion to — recognizing and engaging with the suffering of — others. Many of us, however, when it comesContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Self-Compassion”
Healing America’s Narratives: Self-Discipline
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] Knowing we are going to die, how, then, shall we live? The livings, indignities, and dyings depicted throughout Healing America’s Narratives and this series of posts offer examples of how not to live. As an antidote, ChapterContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Self-Discipline”
Healing America’s Narratives: Intentional Practice, Addiction, and Escape
Library of Congress [Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] For the sake of this essay, we’ll describe practice as any thought, feeling, or behavior that is repeated on a regular¹ basis. Intentional practice is, therefore, any intentionally repeated thought, feeling, or behavior. So,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Intentional Practice, Addiction, and Escape”
Healing America’s Narratives: Resistance: Sources and Resources
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] While we did not explicitly explore resistance in Healing America’s Narratives, it is implicitly present in every chapter of the book — always there any time we bump up against something that challenges our current view orContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Resistance: Sources and Resources”
Healing America’s Narratives: The Power & Paradox of Silence
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, specifically in the context of what may serve the healing process moving forward. The book is available.] In “The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” Audre Lorde wrote that “I was going to die, if notContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Power & Paradox of Silence”
Healing America’s Narratives: Background and Foreground, Context and Content
[Part of a series, this essay continues our exploration of Chapter Eleven (So, Now What?”) of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In the context of the history¹ of the United States, of the nation’s collective national Shadow and state of affairs in the third decade of the twenty-first century, andContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Background and Foreground, Context and Content”
Healing America’s Narratives: How Am I in Relationship With Everything in My Life?
[Part of a series, this essay explores a subheading from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In an earlier essay, we considered six questions and statements that are important for the healing process. Here they are again, with the first five linked to a brief overview: We’reContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: How Am I in Relationship With Everything in My Life?”
Healing America’s Narratives: I Am Going To Die
Photo ©by Philippa Rose-Tite on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores a subheading from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available. We’re returning to Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives after our departures in the previous two posts — the inevitability of the current state of the country and the apparent belief, sharedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: I Am Going To Die”
Healing America’s Narratives: Money, Elections, Democrats, Republicans, & Money
Photo © by Maria Thalassinou on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores aspects of the idiocy that characterize America’s two-party approach to political campaigns. Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available. Note: I am an unaffiliated voter — I am a member of neither the Republican nor the Democratic party. I usedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Money, Elections, Democrats, Republicans, & Money”
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