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Sit With Me: What Zimbabwe’s Grandmothers Can Teach Us About Healing, Listening, and Living the Good Life
And when you looked to this part of the world, grandmothers are considered to be the custodians of local culture and wisdom. And they are...
Apr 257 min read
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Ailing? Write Yourself A Social Prescription
Instead of asking "what's the matter with you?" ask patients "what matters to you?" Dr. Sam Everington, Founding Social Prescribing...
Jan 217 min read
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No Enemies Within: The Story of Three Wolves (Or Minnions)
“Imbalanced systems, whether internal or external, will tend to polarize.” ― Richard C. Schwartz, Internal Family Systems Therapy “Parts...
Dec 12, 20249 min read
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Kindness for Community... for Country, for President?
“We’re all going to die, all of us. What a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t.” -Charles Bukowski Maybe...
Sep 16, 20245 min read
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Kinship: Bridging All the Divides, Tips and Inspiration from My Homie, G-Dog
There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us. Father Gregory Boyle When a system is far from equilibrium small islands of coherence in...
Jul 24, 202430 min read
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Good Ways to Celebrate Our Independence
"You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the...
Jul 3, 20244 min read
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Blessed Are the Curious For They Shall Have Adventures
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies...Abraham Lincoln. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not...
Jun 4, 20246 min read
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Stand Down
Patriotism is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. Adlai Stevenson II, Fifth...
May 23, 20243 min read
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Vulnerability, FEAR, and Sharing Our Common Humanity
“The practice of spirituality is a way of looking at a world where you're not alone.” — Rick Rubin, author of The Creative Act: A Way of...
May 14, 20245 min read
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What's a Symbol of Your Religion?
“If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.” Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, first black woman in congress A...
Mar 30, 20246 min read
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The Amen Effect And Beyond
There is definitely openness to others' suffering that is dealt not with distress but with compassion. Matthieu Ricard A couple of months...
Mar 19, 20246 min read
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Ode To The Unsung Heroes
"The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real." Victor Hugo If you want a little psychological...
May 16, 20234 min read
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Mental Health: The Healing Power Of Connection
"An invisible crisis plagues America today. It's responsible for more sickness, suffering, and death than almost anything else. It is...
May 2, 20238 min read
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Won't You Be My Neighbor?
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even...
Mar 31, 20234 min read
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Sharing Stories Of The Good For The Good
"We are each other’s harvest. we are each other's business. we are each other's magnitude and bond." —Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000), First...
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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Seeing Rightly, Taming Each Other
“I have always felt that a human being could only be saved by another human being. I am aware that we do not save each other very often....
Dec 11, 20225 min read
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Happy Planksgiving and Other Happiness Builders
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." Cicero, Roman stateman Happy Thanksgiving all. Turkey is...
Nov 24, 20222 min read
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Sticking With It Even When It's Hard
"The difficulties of peace are better than the agony of war." Menachem Begin This morning, the day after our country's 2022 midterm...
Nov 9, 20225 min read
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No More Mind Reading
"Cognitive distortions: Mind reading - Inferring a person's possible or probable (usually negative) thoughts from their behavior and...
Nov 4, 20226 min read
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It's About Belonging, Not Belongings and The Stories We Tell
“It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.” Dr....
Oct 24, 20224 min read
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