[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”
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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: 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: 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: The Inevitability of the Current Mood of the United States
Photo © by tom coe on Unsplash Part of a series, this essay explores the inevitability that surfaced amid the research for and writing of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Now available. If we begin with Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 and work our way forward through each day since then, especially those days not includedContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Inevitability of the Current Mood of the United States”
Healing America’s Narratives: What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me?
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. What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me? What’s my impact — what’s the nature of the wake I’m leaving as I swim, paddle, sail, or otherwise make my way along theContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What’s My Impact & What Impacts Me?”
Healing America’s Narratives: Everything Is a Story
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. Everything Is a Story Note your immediate response to this premise. Is it, ‘What do you mean — please explain?’ or, ‘Bullshit…?’ or ‘Du-uh, tell me something I don’t alreadyContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Everything Is a Story”
Healing America’s Narratives: An Overview
Part of a series, this essay breaks from those that precede it and offers a “one-stop” overview of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Now Available. Healing America’s Narratives presents the case that the mood of the United States of America in the third decade of the 21st century is inevitable whenContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: An Overview”
Healing America’s Narratives: So, Now What?
This essay is adapted from Chapter Eleven of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow. Available now. Photo by Brittani Burns on Unsplash First, remember (or notice for the first time) that you have a body. Notice that you are breathing, and keep your attention there for a minute or so. IntentionallyContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: So, Now What?”
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