In the past few years my thinking has shifted around the idea of “fixing.” I am of the opinion that when it comes to myself,…
Changing the Things We Cannot Accept
At New Year’s Eve 2016, I was at a friend’s house and noticed a book on the astrology of 2017. Some of us picked it…
The Problem of the Successful Coping Strategy
A long time ago, people would tell me I was hard to read. I didn’t understand their problem, and was a little suspicious of what…
Book Review – Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Society
Sex Outside the Lines: Authentic Sexuality in a Sexually Dysfunctional Society by Chris Donaghue Donaghue’s thesis is essentially that our sex-negative and oppressive society has created sexual…
Film Response – It Follows
It Follows (2014) Recently I was home sick for a weekend and decided to catch up on some movie suggestions. It Follows had come up multiple…
Loneliness and Emotional Labor
I got walloped by a cold this week and decided to focus on resting and recharging, so I do not have much original content to…
What is in the Way?
Recently I was in a class that offered an exercise to write down my desires and vision of my goals, and then to write down about what…
We Heal Together
We are wounded in relationship and we heal in relationship. Shame says, “You are alone. Your problems are unique. You are broken. You are bad.”…
Lemonade: The Alchemical Opus of the Queen
“Take one pint of water. Add a half-pound of sugar, the juice of 8 lemons, the zest of a half lemon. Pour the water from…
Keeping Your Head On in a Post-Truth Era, Part 2
In my last post, I discussed propaganda as a tool of control and subversion, and observed that the cultural climate has shifted in such a…