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The Power-Hungry Games: What Is Your Cause?

What makes your heart feel full and warm, and what acts of kindness and service support you to feel alive and at ease in your solar plexus or core? And at the root of passionate service exists a stable human being. How are you taking care of yourself? Can you integrate nourishing self-care ...

wellness

The Freedom To Stay: Rethinking Pathological Relationships.

In my direct personal experience, abuse of any sort is cyclical. Via forces of both nature and nurture (or the lack thereof), it gets passed from one generation to the next. Abruptly turning one's back upon it can be a necessary self-protective measure. However, the systematic adoption of this ...

wisdom

Marker In The Woods: Using Discernment As A Tool To Better Understand Life.

If we can observe an instinct, emotion or quality through the lens of having both a positive and negative expression, we can build our discernment in any given circumstance to aid in reclaiming our sovereignty through trusting our inner sight. Here are a few examples of how we can use this tool ...

art

From Victims Of Atrocity To Strong Survivors: Rebuilding Lives Of Kosovar Women.

The lives of these women are shattered. Only their husbands know. Their children still do not. One can only hope that through their courage to share their stories with outsiders, they may at some point dare to speak openly. Until then, a lot has to change in this country for women to rise.

art

We Write To Heal.

No matter what the story is from which you need to heal, once it’s written, things are seen from a different perspective.

wisdom

For Those Who Feel Things Intensely: We Deserve Love.

I hope that one day I know a slightly less intense experience, but I laugh writing that because what if life is intense? What if things are just intense? What if I am intense and I feel things intensely, and that’s okay? Because it is. It sure doesn’t fucking feel like it, but ultimately I know ...

yoga

I Let Go: How Yoga Helped Me Heal, And Why I Want To Teach It.

I am not saying that Yoga was my only saving device, because I know of the unseen forces that held me up and touched my hands with hope during the past four years; however, It was the most tender prescription that helped pave the way for the latter days of my mending, as my weights had ...

happiness

Froid: Running Free And Wild With Flowers In My Hair.

I will run for hope -- against emotional trauma, eating disorders, domestic violence, and for education. I will run for love.

art

“Not To Be Repeated!”: Ongoing Trauma For Victims Of Bosnia-Herzegovina Civil War 20 Years Later.

Similar to disastrous situations in other parts of the world, lots of money was poured into the Balkans after the war, and the hope for recovery was high. Now, donors have lost their interest; still-existing issues are no longer reported, the economy has stagnated, and corruption is rampant. ...

world

The Day I Befriended My Voice.

As a therapist, I understand we play old patterns in our lives, but it is not on purpose, and we need to be careful when we discuss such situations placing too much responsibility on the victimized person rather than the ones who perpetrated the abuse.

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