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To Transcend and Include (Ken Wilber)
Ken Wilber's work and intellect is difficult to describe. Throughout a long career—and the authoring of 20 books, including A Brief History of Everything, Grace and Grit, Sex, Ecology, Spirituality, …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Working with the Divine (Nicole Avant)
Nicole Avant is a philanthropist, filmmaker, and former diplomat. In her recent memoir, Think You’ll Be Happy, Nicole describes attending to the grief and shock of her mother’s unthinkable murder—she…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Recovering Our Ability to Feel (Prentis Hemphill): TRAUMA
“I think we need each other. I say this all the time, there are some things that are too big to feel in one body. You need a collective body to move them through. And I think that's what we need. We …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
The Myth of Resilience (Soraya Chemaly)
“This is the richness of the traditional wife explosion, right? There's this simple idea that you get to choose. Now you're choosing to emulate a situation that's a fiction in that those women didn't…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Finding Fear in the Body (Resmaa Menakem): TRAUMA
“Here's what I would say: peace will happen when people invest in cultivating peace as opposed to war. Peace will happen. And one thing I know, for me, I know peace, I know I will never see it, but m…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Take Back Your Brain (Kara Loewentheil)
“There are studies showing that, once your basic needs are met, and you're not worried about losing your house, losing your health care, increases in money don't significantly increase happiness, rig…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Where Trauma Begins (Peter Levine, Ph.D): TRAUMA
“There are therapies where the person is made to relive their traumas over and over and over again. It's called flooding. And that's the one type of therapy that I do not agree with. I think it, not …
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Choosing Wholeness Over Wokeness (Africa Brooke)
“In writing my book, I wanted to bring it back to the self because being online allows us to have this inappropriate level of audacity. And I think audacity is a very beautiful thing, but it gets so …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
A Toolkit for Working with Your Trauma (James Gordon, M.D.): TRAUMA
“Now the tragedy, in one sense is a tragedy, that often people only become open when they've suffered horribly when that is both the tragedy of trauma, but also the promise. It's one thing to be trau…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago
The Complexity of Weight Loss Drugs (Johann Hari)
“I realized I think there's a few things that are in our heads that are so deep in the culture. One of them is the idea that being overweight is a sin. It goes right back to if you look at Pope Grego…
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago