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Of Mothers, Daughters and the Wounds That Shape Us…
Injury to the mother-daughter relationship rents a profound wound, and gives rise to serious strain between both daughters and mothers. Does my mother love me? Why does my daughter hate me so much? Why doesn’t she love me? A question often asked by both daughter and mother. And for the daughter, “I mama doesn’t love…
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Of Vipassana, The Trauma of Birth, and Swords of Healing…
Buddhist teacher and vipassana meditation teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, once said, “To bring about peace we [human individuals] must learn to live with peace.” Agamemnon, brother of Menelaus and wife of Clytemnestra, declares in Homer’s Iliad, “Peace is for the women, and the weak. Empires are forged by war.” While Clytemnestra’s role is unclear in…
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Protected: Of Apologies, Sincerity and Saying What We Actually Mean…
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Of Mark Halperin, Narcissism and The Words We Use…
What happens when what you say or how you say your words takes listeners’ attentions away from the point you are trying to make? Recently on Morning Joe of MSNBC when asked of his opinion concerning President Obama’s response to the GOP not backing down on opposition to higher taxes , Time Magazine’s Editor-at-Large, Mark…