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Fall--and the necessity of loss

Every fall, we see the leaves… fall. Plants stop producing and die. We begin to add more clothes as the weather becomes cooler. We lose access to the baking summer sun. Loss is a universal experience,... ...more

Trauma

October 16, 2024•2 min read

Opening Arms to Light

She could be anybody--oh, that we all had such strong experiences of daybreaking in our lives! I was just talking to a colleague of mine who asked me what my “aha” moment about healing was, my “daybre... ...more

Trauma

October 09, 2024•2 min read

Hello? Hello? Are you there?

We've been reaching out to organizations whose people are stressed, burned out, and crispy critters from the mass trauma of the pandemic and whatever personal losses or trauma they have experienced be... ...more

Trauma

October 02, 2024•2 min read

Managing the impact of trauma in workplace

There are some very simple norms around managing trauma when it shows up in the workplace. ...more

Trauma

September 25, 2024•2 min read

Gathering in

Now is the gathering in time. Have a look at what you bring in from your efforts. Look for the good, choose what you might do different... ...more

Trauma

September 18, 2024•1 min read

We turn to the West

West is a direction of completion and maturity, of dreaming, the source of water, the place and time of transformation ...more

Trauma

September 11, 2024•1 min read

Summer of Two Frogs

If you’ve followed me any time at all, you know I love my garden. The last two years have been especially challenging: I was in SC half the time and couldn’t tend. Had no soil to tend there. My soul a... ...more

Trauma

September 04, 2024•1 min read

Hongry: hot and angry

Forget “hangry”--that cute level of hunger that makes people irritable. It’s been a staple in commercials for some time. A candy bar is the solution. This weather? It’s bringing the “hongry” out. ...more

Trauma

August 28, 2024•1 min read

Hope and the Hobbits?

It was Samwise Gamgee who said this, in The Two Towers, to Frodo: It’s like the great stories, Mr. Frodo, the ones that really mattered. ...more

Trauma

August 21, 2024•1 min read

Hope as a liberative journey

Oppression and fear sit in opposition to hope. Sometimes, they, too, feel as if they are everywhere all the time. What if they are? ...more

Trauma

August 14, 2024•1 min read

Hope is no invisible bird.

While Emily Dickinson puts hope into the symbolic form of a bird within us, we live with it as “optimism” and “a belief that things will change.” ...more

Trauma

August 07, 2024•1 min read

More on hope--

Hope is still the topic du jour and Emily Dickinson is still the guide--her last stanza (see last week for the first) sits with me on a regular basis. ...more

Trauma

July 31, 2024•1 min read