Tag: Conflict & Repair

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Conflict & Repair is a study of the rupture-repair-renewal cycle—the necessary tension that exists within the fabric of any soulful bond. Rather than fearing the tear, we look at the art of mending: learning how to inhabit the fraying edge of a disagreement without letting the entire connection unravel. By honoring the friction that strained the weave, we discover that a relationship which has been broken and consciously bound back together possesses a resilient beauty—a visible, seasoned strength—that a seamless cloth never could.

  • Making Peace

    Making Peace

    Forgiveness is necessary to peacemakers, but it’s difficult to make peace when one has been hurt. One of the best means of facilitating forgiveness

  • Trauma Bears & Bees

    Trauma Bears & Bees

    I can handle a lot of projections–but my, do they sting.

  • These Ancient Stones

    These Ancient Stones

    It takes a lot of courage to work through what has pained you all your life.

  • Stop and Listen

    Stop and Listen

    Collectives breed dysfunction by demanding conformity. Demonizing the “other” fuels destruction, leading us down a path we reject in personal relationships yet justify as patriotism or faith. Projecting our darkest parts onto others is madness. More and more, I see wisdom in the Quaker approach to life

  • The Blessing

    The Blessing

    People who have been blessed carry the weight of that blessing with them their entire lives and have something of substance to pass on to others.

  • Knots

    Knots

    We’re tested and proved through what we do when what’s most dear to us is threatened or taken away. We see who we really are when we’re our most vulnerable. Vulnerability also shows us where our boundaries are.

  • Twins

    Twins

    From these myths of twins we can see that being cheated out of something valuable can cause serious consequences, even death.

  • The True Practice of Psychology

    The True Practice of Psychology

    The true practice of psychology is human and responds compassionately to the needs of individual human beings.

  • True Blood

    True Blood

    Being told you’re somehow misshapen temperamentally can be a terrible injustice and heartache to a child. It’s also hurtful when we give the adults in our lives such messages of unacceptability.

  • The Hearth from Which We Leave

    The Hearth from Which We Leave

    How different it is to be in a nurturing family! Immediately, I can sense the aliveness, the genuineness, honesty, and love.