Part of the difficulty humanity is facing in evolving away from an unfair, unhealthy, patriarchal social order is that everyone carries wounds inflicted by these systemic behavior patterns. Until these wounds are processed and integrated, the unresolved wounds tend to lead us to continually replay them, either on ourselves or other people. When we healContinue reading “Healing the Wounds of Toxic Masculinity”
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Healthy Boundaries Help us Love Ourselves
Creating healthy boundaries can be challenging for highly empathic people, because we often prioritize the emotional state of others over our own. But when we value ourselves as much as we value others, we’re able to nourish our beings and fill our hearts with love. And when our own hearts are full, then we haveContinue reading “Healthy Boundaries Help us Love Ourselves”
Growing Beautiful Lotuses from the Mud of our Shame-filled Shadows, Part 2
View Part 1 here “If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses.” -Thich Nhat Hanh Last week, we discussed the “mud” of our shadows, especially the unproductive patterns we find ourselves repeating. In part two of this discussion, we’ll focus on how loving our wounds can helpContinue reading “Growing Beautiful Lotuses from the Mud of our Shame-filled Shadows, Part 2”
Growing Beautiful Lotuses from the Mud of our Shame filled Shadows, Part 1
“If you know how to make good use of the mud, you can grow beautiful lotuses.” -Thich Nhat Hanh In this video, we discuss embracing the “mud” of our shadows – those parts of ourselves that society has conditioned us to be ashamed of. But most of these “shameful” aspects of ourselves are simply unproductiveContinue reading “Growing Beautiful Lotuses from the Mud of our Shame filled Shadows, Part 1”
Embracing Love 