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The Pain Behind The Pain in Human Experience
DK: In an earlier post, Defiance in the Family: A Rebellion in the Name of Health, I described our idea that Defiance occurs as a result of a collapse of fealty, or a loss of faith in leadership. The...
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The Many (Hidden) Faces of A Family
DK: This is another story about defiance. I am referring to any behavior pattern that shields the Self from distortion as ‘defiance’. Thus OCD, anorexia, depression, ADHD can be viewed as a form of...
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From “The School of Life”: “What Nice Men Don’t Say To Nice Women”
AB: Here’s a rather provocative post from Alain de Botton’s “School of Life”. We were a bit ambivalent about posting it. I don’t like the ending; it’s too literal. It concretizes the idea of...
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The Relationship Disrupter
AB: This is a post from a few years ago, but I think it’s more apt than ever. In her “Opinion” piece in the New York Times, Sherry Turkle, psychologist and MIT professor, beautifully captures the...
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“The Dangers Of Being Dutiful” from The School of Life
AB: Here’s another thoughtful vignette from Alain de Botton’s “The School of Life.” While overly simplistic at times, Botton peers into the demands parents put on their kids for dutiful behavior,...
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In Praise of Self-Pity
AB: I love this little post from Alain de Botton’s The School of Life. He talks about the importance of honoring the Baby in all of us. From a personal perspective, my best coach on this matter is my...
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TRUMP THE FUN HOUSE MIRROR: AMUSING DISRUPTING DISTURBING
DK: My partner in blogging Amy Begel wrote an excellent personal essay, This Woman’s Perspective: What “Trump-ism” Has Awakened In Me. She commented on how the offensive behavior and language about...
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What A “Rigged Election” Really Looks Like
AB: Our readers may understand our current preoccupation with the upcoming Presidential election in the United States. Indeed, with the election so close, it’s difficult to think of anything else. Many...
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The Power of the “I-Thou” Relationship
In today’s New York Times, columnist David Brooks talks about the great Jewish theologian Martin Buber, and how he can teach us about what caring and intimacy look like. Buber calls it the “I-Thou”...
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Fear of Women’s Power
Check out this Op-Ed from the New York Times by writer Stacy Schiff. As an author on the history of witchcraft, she reflects on the current demonizing of Hillary Clinton. It seems that we may not...
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More On The Perils of Powerful Womanhood
And for those of you who want to read more about the perils of being a powerful woman in politics, check out this beautifully written article by Elaine Showalter from the Times Literary Supplement....
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A Poetic Reminder About “The Other”
Lately, like a lot of folks, we’ve been preoccupied and anxious about these turbulent political times. The virulent, toxic rhetoric from Trump and his supporters makes it easy–and tempting–to lose...
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SMALL UNIVERSES
DK: There’s no town drunks here we just take turns. Sometimes it seems to me our small universes are made out of words. See, words get pulled together into assumptions or beliefs that tell us what to...
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The Undercurrent of Trump’s Pull: The Fantasy of Masculine Power Reclaimed
Here’s an important Opinion piece from today’s New York Times. Author Jill Filipovic looks at how Donald Trump’s rallying cry of “Make America Great Again” is a not-so-disguised promise to white men...
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Comic John Oliver Blames Himself for Helping Create Trump
Check out this funny monologue by talk show comic John Oliver. He blames himself for Trump’s candidacy. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/john-oliver-donald-trump-campaign_us_582054f2e4b0d9ce6fbd0a61
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Obama Skewers Trump for Having His Twitter Account Taken Away
This is hilarious: Watch President Barack Obama make fun of Trump for having his Twitter account taken away:...
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Let America Be America Again
For our collective wounds: Here’s a poem from the great African-American poet Langston Hughes. Let American Be America Again Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be. Let it be...
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An American Tragedy
We ask our readers’ indulgence as we work through our grief regarding the American Presidential election. Today, at my office, every single individual or couple I saw, had only one thing on their...
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Help For Our Disorientation
Dear Readers; We’re almost done with writing about our electoral anguish. As part of our last act, check out filmmaker Michael Moore’s checklist for what we should do in response to the election of, as...
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