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“Don’t try any of that bullshit about understanding”
March 7, 2018 | Blog
'Don't try any of that bullshit about understanding'Finding ways to understand that we cannot understand The ‘bullshit’ line was how he began, the man in front of me who had seen too much. Here was...
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Distraction – why are we so easily distracted, by anything and everything?
November 13, 2017 | Blog
Distraction - why are we so easily distracted, by anything and everything?Here we are, the primary primate. In holding onto the top spot, we have managed to wipe out a thousand species in the past...
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Bouncing – not as babyish as it sounds…
May 29, 2017 | Blog
Bouncing - not as babyish as it sounds...…and often a lot more effective than drugs The room was full of adults bouncing, jammed together in a space that was too small, all of them trying...
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What does resilience mean? When it seems as if there is nothing left in us, when we long for more strength, more inner fight, what is it that we are really asking for?
March 11, 2017 | Blog
What does resilience mean? When it seems as if there is nothing left in us, when we long for more strength, more inner fight, what is it that we are really asking for?‘How do I...
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Out in the Backcountry—Post Traumatic Stress
July 31, 2016 | Blog
Out in the Backcountry—Post Traumatic StressAt the moment I am again in the disconcerting backcountry of PTS. I know this place. The terrain is ugly, but it is also familiar. I can predict where most of...
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Autonomy and Control—and our human need for both
July 15, 2016 | Blog
Autonomy and Control—and our human need for bothIt’s interesting thinking about autonomy, sitting here now, in Kashmir, the whole valley curfewed, everyone confined, shut in, locked down. And it was another version of interesting when...
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‘Good-bye’ – to anyone who is graduating
May 18, 2016 | Blog
‘Good-bye’ – to anyone who is graduatingYou’re there, that place that glimmered so far in the future that it was almost impossible to imagine. Do you remember arriving, that freshman moment when you first saw...
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The Power of Negative Thinking…because it’s the result of millions of years of evolution…
May 14, 2016 | Blog
The Power of Negative Thinking…because it’s the result of millions of years of evolution…Take a day, any day. Ten good things might happen. Perhaps these aren’t big deal good things, but they are ten things...
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Rejection
April 16, 2016 | Blog
Rejection‘No!’. This is not a word that we are particularly good at using well. And it’s not the one we want to hear, at least most of the time. Of course there are the times...
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Numb or Raw – the pain of feeling nothing or everything
November 9, 2015 | Blog
Numb or Raw - the pain of feeling nothing or everythingIt was an odd argument, except that it wasn’t one—it probably just sounded that way—animated, two bodies leaning in towards each other, engaged, buzzing, hands...
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The Divided Self – the inner civil war that we wage
October 24, 2015 | Blog
The Divided Self - the inner civil war that we wageJust to clear up an important point, by divided I don’t mean those mental agonies that gets whacked with labels beginning with bi-, split-, schiz-...
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