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links: psychology, morality, social media and dogs

August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

in my long-suffering attempts to organize my internet life better, i’m going to see what it’s like if i post the occasional link article.  so here’s a stroll through the links open on august 1, with the first paragraph of each post so that you can get an idea what it’s all about.  you may [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · depression and mental illness · peace, environment, social justice et al · queer talk, gender issues and sexual identity · the net · therapy

body language and cyber language

July 30th, 2010 · 8 Comments

my new-found friend sheldon from the kitzul connection wrote this the other day: given the world we live in with social media dominating our relationshipscapes, why all the love??! i have had this brewing in the back of my mind for a while now. but it really hit home during a recent trip to the [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · the net

divorce: a ballad

April 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment

he screams at her and she screams back he in this corner, she in the other over there. the children, they run back and forth with “who will fix our toys?” she screams at him and he screams back but only in their heads. their mouths are silent and their eyes don’t meet. the children [...]

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Tags: communication · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · emotional health

love every day

March 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments

is it valentine’s day yet?  what?  i missed it?  drat!  yup, that was one of the things that fell between the cracks during my trip to europe.  what also fell between the cracks was telling you about an ebook that chelle kindly invited me to participate in.  as a gift to her readers on valentine’s [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · emotional health · interesting books

the power of denial

March 19th, 2010 · 4 Comments

i had a conversation with a client the other day about his brother who is presenting him with quite a bit of bafflement. “he (let’s call him noah) is such a nice guy; wise, funny, understanding, compassionate, self aware. and then – there is this part of himself that he seems to be completely unaware [...]

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Tags: communication · emotional health

speaking the truth

December 28th, 2009 · 6 Comments

you are reading an article about truth right now. at this moment, your eyes are working sufficiently to be able to read this article, which is written in lower case, and involves a quote by nietzsche. in the alternative, you are listening to an audio program that is translating these words into voice, or someone [...]

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Tags: communication · philosophy and education

christmas, love, agape

December 25th, 2009 · 1 Comment

these days i really seem to enjoy to quote from books.  here’s one i have talked about before: the priority of love: christian charity and social justice, by timothy p. jackson.  let me give you some quotes. jackson puts the christian virtue of charity in close context of agape.  according to the stanford dictionary of [...]

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Tags: communication · interesting books · spirituality

be the change: violent criminals

December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment

marshall rosenberg, the man known for his work in nonviolent communication, appears in the section off the cushion and into life in be the change: how meditation can transform you and the world). he works a lot in prisons. the people there have done some stuff that i really do not like, like sexually molesting [...]

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Tags: communication · interesting books · peace, environment, social justice et al · spirituality

motivation, marriage and work relationships

December 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments

as you can see, i haven’t been a very busy posting beaver lately.  i’ve been watching my energy level and need to put some things on the back burner.  every morning i come up with all kinds of wonderful ideas for blog posts but by the time i find a moment to post something, there’s [...]

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Tags: communication · emotional health

spiritual language

October 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments

a while ago we talked about the lack of scripts for talking about mental illness (at least in “polite society”), and before that we had a conversation about how uncomfortable it can be to engage in peaceful communication.  and now evan took up the topic the other day and asked how can we talk about [...]

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Tags: blogs of note · communication · spirituality

understanding parents

September 14th, 2009 · 4 Comments

a few semi random musings on parents … through my parents, a lot of challenges came my way. but through them, i also learned how to build the tools to overcome those challenges. for example, creativity was highly encouraged. parents irrevocably shape most of the way we view the world. some of that can be [...]

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Tags: communication · emotional health · the "understanding" series

understanding understanding

August 4th, 2009 · 7 Comments

after reading this morning that BC philosopher and counsel to psychologists sydney banks had died, i thought i’d write a bit about him.  alas, i cannot find in myself any interest in his work.  he talked about the three principles of mind, thought and consciousness. if there’s a sydney banks fan among you out there, [...]

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Tags: communication · philosophy and education · the "understanding" series

will and willpower

July 28th, 2009 · 4 Comments

while my blog was in hiatus, i was not entirely silent. conversations happened on twitter, for example this one regarding the concepts of “will” and “will power”, mostly with gassho. i was going to comment on some of these, also give you the tweets of what other people were saying. but perhaps it would be [...]

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Tags: communication · philosophy and education · the net

a script for mental illness

July 27th, 2009 · 22 Comments

we need to find a way to talk about mental illness. how do we communicate our feelings and our experiences?

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Tags: communication · depression and mental illness

twitter rant

May 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

okay, guys ‘n’ gals, i gotta get this off my chest. as you know, i’m an avid twitter (over) user.  i love it.  and there are two things that have made me roll my eyes quite a bit lately.   it’s easier to pontificate on this on a blog, so i’m using this platform.  (as [...]

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Tags: communication · the net