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Shine Within
Okay, so it was 7:00 at night and I am usually winding down by then. I was tired after a long day, and the lighting was awful. Okay— but even so, on this last Zoom podcast, I couldn’t help but glance over and see a pale old woman on the right side of the screen, while...
What If?
Father Gregory Boyle of Homeboy Industries once said, “We imagine a world with no prisons and then we create that world.” I love that quote. I’ve repeated it to other people and the response is almost always the same—"Wouldn’t that be nice, but it will never happen.”...
It Doesn’t Have to be This Way
It took me decades to begin remembering childhood abuse. One of the first memories came in a drawing I made in a workshop of me lying on my back and a scream coming out of my mouth. It was a shocking picture, and I knew there was a real scream there, the way you just...
Beyond Expectation
Two of my most profound experiences as a therapist were with people who I thought at the outset were the least likely to be in therapy at all. One was a man whose wife was about to leave him because she was starving for more emotional connection, and he was desperate...
Be Both A Witness and a Participant
This is a beautiful message I received recently as I was asking for how to be in these very intense and often scary times. Now more than ever keep your soul’s calling in the forefront of consciousness. By radiating the greatest light you are capable of, you make your...
A Path Through The Wilderness
In Lynne McTaggart’s book “The Intention Experiment,” she describes part of a study in which the intention to “restore the natural order” was sent by a group of focused individuals, to cancer cells in a test tube. The goal was to see if such healing vibrations could...
The Endgame
The Endgame I think of these as the end days, and I try to keep my mind on all possible resurrections, even in the face of so much crucifying. Like fallen soldiers in a war I wish had never been fought in the first place, the decomposing bodies of all my unquestioned...
My Dream
My Dream The world I imagine, the world I dream of, is not unattainable. Again and again we have dreamed the seemingly impossible and made it happen--pyramids, aqueducts, microscopes and telescopes, cell phones, heart transplants, computers and space travel. What can...
Earth’s Cry
Earth's Cry Blog #39 I watched Michael Moore’s new movie Planet of the Humans last night. He exposes many disturbing facts behind the myth that “green energy” as it is produced today could even begin to save our climate. The film is sobering, alarming, but also,...
Exodus
Phyllis Leavitt’s #OnTheRoadHome Blog This Week’s #Psyche&SoulBlog, part thirty-eight in a series, 4/18/2020 Exodus I am not a student of the Bible, but in my Jewish upbringing we did hear many Old Testament stories including the Passover story with all its...