Imagining Forgiveness

Please see the NY Times article entitled “I Will Never Be Able to Hold Her Again. But I Forgive You.” http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/20/us/charleston-shooting-dylann-storm-roof.html?_r=0 Role models of lovingkindness and compassion. If only the entire world could show this kind of grace in the face of heinous acts and the suffering that the violence and hatred in this world […]

  A Reflection on Non-consensual Sex, Trauma, and Silence When we experience a trauma, particularly an interpersonal one, we are often left without words to describe our experience. When our body boundary, our sense of self, is overtaken by another, our sympathetic nervous system automatically reacts into fight, flight, or freeze. As Peter Levine expresses […]

video of ocean dec 31 May the warm winds and heaven Blow softly upon your house. May the great spirit bless All who enter there. May your moccasins make Happy tracks in many snows. And may the rainbow Always touch your shoulder.   (Cherokee Prayer)

I recently posted this proposed Forgiveness Ritual on a site for a group I am involved in at interspiritualwisdom.org, as it was requested of us to contribute something utilizing Ed Bastian’s conceptualizations around interspiritual meditation, ritual,  and/or other practices. I thought I would post it here as well. Enjoy! A Proposed Interspiritual Ritual for Working […]

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Forgiveness during the Holidays This morning I had the good fortune of being a guest on Dr. Leon Dickerson’s radio show called Mental Health for Better Living on WHCR-90.3FM in New York (9 to 9:30am EST). The radio show focuses on family life, spiritual life, and the community and we spoke about forgiveness and its importance, […]

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“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”                                                                             Mary Oliver

To all the mothers of this earth To Mother Earth To all of those who “mother” others, regardless of biological relation To the compassionate mothering of ourselves as each and every one us engages in self-care practices To our spiritual mothers who grace all of the many spiritual traditions of our shared world To the […]

Dear All, Please see our article entitled Facing Invisible Dragons: An East-West Discussion on Finding Meaning With a Sibling With Developmental Disability. It is in the April issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology (DOI: 10.1177/0022167813491632). www.sagepublications.com Juliet and Betty        

MLK by James Paul Brown   “Faith is taking the first step, even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” Martin Luther King Jr.

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