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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: 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”