Tag: healing
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Mystery: An Antidote to Totalizing Ideas
A chilly, wet day. The river has overflowed its banks and filled the floodplain. Friday I attended a professional ethics conference focused on diversity. As is too often the case at such conferences, diversity was broadly defined and rigidly illustrated, essentially leaving out disability and Native America. It did not help my mood that although…
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We’re Home!
The past two weeks have been quite busy and I have not had time to post. The next few days seem likely to follow that recent trend so I wanted to write a quick note. We’ve just returned from the American Society for Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama Annual Conference. This year the event took place…
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Called
A blustery, rain dampened Easter morning, the early clouds now giving way to moments of sun and blue sky. Being early April, the sun has melted away the snow and warmed the ground allowing new growth in the understory at the forest edge. Once again we in the northern hemisphere celebrate the greening of the…
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Trauma, Spirits, and the “I”
A clear, crisp, bright late January day, deep snow pack melting away at the edges. Oh, wait! It’s March! I’ve just finished reading Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. The “biographical” novel narrates the life of a Nigerian girl born with one foot in the physical world and one in the spirit world. As often happens to…
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