[Part of our ongoing exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay explores Chapter Twelve’s inquiry into the role of love — and its lack — in American culture. The book is available here.] Regarding the subtitle’s question, the answer is, well, just about everything. Over the course ofContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What’s Love Got to Do With It?”
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Healing America’s Narratives: Guns, Money, & Violence
[Part of our ongoing exploration Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay focuses on the roles violence and greed play in our collective Shadow. The book is available here.] The underlying premise in Healing America’s Narratives is that the United States we know in the third decade of the 21st century isContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Guns, Money, & Violence”
Healing America’s Narratives: Assumption, Fear, and Resistance to Change
Photo © by Suzanne D. Williams on Unsplash [Part of our ongoing exploration of Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay explores why it often feels like we’re immune to change. The book is available here.] We know that change can be unsettling, even scary, whether it’s exterior change imposedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Assumption, Fear, and Resistance to Change”
Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Collective Healing
[Part of a series, this essay continues our turn toward the collective in our ongoing exploration of Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] In the previous essay, we introduced M. Scott Peck’s stages of community-making: pseudocommunity, chaos, emptiness, and community. Here, as we continue our turn toward the collective, we’llContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Collective Healing”
Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Community
Photo © by Rita Vicari on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay turns toward the collective as we continue our exploration of Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow.Now available.] As we continue to explore America’s narratives and collective Shadow, it’s essential to remember and pay attention to the interrelationships among individuals, groups,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Moving Toward Community”
Healing America’s Narratives: Trauma
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”
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: 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”
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