[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: The Race for Violence — 2023
Photo © by Gayatri Malhotra on Unsplash [Part of a series, this essay looks at some current events in the context of Healing America’s Narratives: the Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow — Now available] The context of each of these “Healing America’s Narratives” posts is the collective national Shadow of the United States, as explored in detail in the book by that name. Briefly,Continue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: The Race for Violence — 2023”
Healing America’s Narratives: Thank You, Tennessee
Photo (c) by Joshua Hoehne on Unsplash [Part of our ongoing exploration of Healing America’s Narratives: The Feminine, the Masculine, & Our Collective National Shadow, this essay focuses on a school shooting in Nashville and related events in the Tennessee State Legislature that highlight our need for healing. The book is available here.] On March 27, 2023 a man with aContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Thank You, Tennessee”
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: Playing Whack-a-Mole in Politics and Celebrity Performance News
Photo © by ahmad kanbar 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.] The previous posts in this series provide evidence that the problems and mood of the United States of America in the third decade of the twenty-first century are not surprising andContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: Playing Whack-a-Mole in Politics and Celebrity Performance News”
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: 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: 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: What Am I Not Seeing?
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 our previous three inquiries into subheaders from Chapter Eleven, “So, Now What?” we explored identity, story, and impact. Here we’ll consider what any one of us — or millions of us — mightContinue reading “Healing America’s Narratives: What Am I Not Seeing?”
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