... we must be willing to face into and lay claim to all that has told us that we can't. Without that, we seek to spread the seeds of our potential on concrete... without breaking up the barrier and making way for the ability to penetrate to the nutrient-rich soil below. And in the face of bearing witness to that potential's inevitable and slow dying, we ... Continue Reading >>
rage
Line in the sand…..
I've been working with women for close to 30 years. Two things that have always stood out in my ever-deepening conversations with them: they are often shocked and terrified by the depth of their own rage; and they are pissed to discover that their well-honed and practised 'appropriate-ness' will not take them where they want to go. They are ... Continue Reading >>
Women and Rage: From Silence to Creation
Episode 83 ~ with Nancy Hanlon and Jaime Lowe-Roach Guest Host: Nancy Hanlon - WEL-Systems Institute Affiliate and Certified CODE Model Coach™ For many women, their inner passion and wisdom have long been forgotten to the demands of partners, children, work and taking care of extended family and community. As life fast forwards day by day, the ... Continue Reading >>
Losing Faith in Organized Religion
Once again, allegations of institutionalized child abuse perpetrated by the clergy of the Catholic Church fill the news. This time, Europe is awakening to what we for all too long have not wanted to see or hear or know as a truth in our own experiences: we are a species that cannibalizes our young. I've written about this in many other times and spaces. ... Continue Reading >>
Bullying
I read Tanya's posting and had to move away from it. As I 'heard' the small voice of her son, torrents of memories flooded back into my awareness of a time, not-so-long-ago, when her voice would have been my own. Although the difference would have been in my son being the one in the schoolyard being harassed/bullied/harmed, both would have been victims. I ... Continue Reading >>