Tag: Native American
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To Heal Is to Own One’s Own Identity
Healing, at it’s best,contests the definitions and deletions of self imposed by others from without, and supports the development of a more home grown, autonomous sense of group and individual self.
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Cindy Jacobs, Ethnic Hatred, and the Journey towards Healing, Part One
The journey towards healing is demanding. Denial and hatred are easier pathways to follow. They also bring ever more suffering to the world.
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Cindy Jacobs, Ethnic Hatred, and the Journey towards Healing, Part Two
This is the second part of a longer post. The use of scapegoating, abuse, and the erasure of Self is a familiar story in psychotherapy, where clients speak of parents who made little room for the growth and needs of their children, instead insisting the children meet the needs of the parent. The abuse and…
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Place and the Sacred
This cultural divide is broad, and growing. Yet it is perhaps not beyond healing. European’s might extend Saint Paul’s maxim to” have faith in things unseen” to the spiritual beliefs of others. They might allow the world itself, like the Holy places of Israel, the Middle East, or India, to be sacred, the living presence…
