A heads-up to you: this post is a specific call to action. It is an action we can all take now, and may not be able to in the future. As most of you know, I am not an alarmist. But I feel I need to call attention to some issues and make you aware that there are low-key but vital actions you can take now. Please do.I taught a
I began my career at age 19, and moved from clinical assistant to prevention specialist to health educator over a few years. As such, I am often guided by these roots and by the wisdom of the phrase “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”Like you, I am uncertain what the next few years will look like. They could be very different, or they may look mostly
As I enter the third act of my life, I have become aware that I have developed a very different response (OK, let’s call it what it is, a reaction) to the idea of purpose. All of my life I have considered myself lucky to have had a strong sense of purpose, and while my purpose has changed throughout the years, the feeling that I’m needed here on the planet
When Byron Katie first published “Loving What Is” in 2002, the book became an international phenomenon. Oprah endorsed it, everyone I knew was talking about it, and I found the approach an outstanding way to shake up my thinking.However Katie came to formulate the questions, they draw on older ideas: those of self-inquiry, which is part of philosophy; ideas that are reflected in narrative therapies, and the power of the
As the situation that is 2023 rages on, I think to myself, “This is what a digital civil war looks like.”Of course the war is not all digital. It has made its way into churches, mosques, schools, malls, nightclubs…even the nation’s Capitol. The reality of war has been present with us for several years, but it has perhaps not registered that way. We think of war as armies and guns