I. Living within a consumerist system: how capitalism tells us what we need and starves us.
We are fed so many lies within this system. Lies about our worth as equated to our income and our buying power. Lies about how this or...
IX. As tiny humans, we will give up almost any part of ourselves for love and belonging.
We, as small people, learn what it is to be a part of the family that we were born into. We don’t question their rightness or wrongness....
VIII. Families pass dysfunction and residual trauma down through the line.
We have the parents that we have. And their parents. And theirs. It matters deeply what happened to those people who came before us. We...
VII. We are shaped by the past more profoundly than we think.
I often find myself saying to people: “These are the actual details of your life. They are yours. Here they are. You must make some...
VI. Fine: Feelings Inside Not Expressed.
Expressing joy is not actually generally accepted in our culture of careful public expression of feeling. How many times do we...
V. Pleasure and joy are the purpose of life.
When we get too full of undigested feelings, our consciousness shrinks us down to something smaller, tighter - constrained, contained,...