My conservative uncle called me this week wanting to say hi and let me know he cares about me. I let it go to voice mail because I wasn’t sure how I was going to respond; I unfriended him during the pandemic after his posts where causing me so much stress that it took hours […]
I’ve been having a hard time slogging through the trauma of the American election, with the attendant social media hazards that come along with politics. I couldn’t sleep tonight, so I wrote this fictional post to baby boomers who supported the male candidate: Baby boomers, has the church let you down? Do you see through
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I know a liberal Jewish man who recently did inquiry with a conservative Jewish woman in a Diamond Approach context about Israel and Palestine. They had done it in person before, but at this point, they were doing it over e-mail. One of the last things she said before the communication broke down was that
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I’ve been trying to write about Enneagram Type Sixes who are behind the conspiracy theories undermining this presidential race and tainting it with cynicism and chronic skepticism, but Type Six is by far the toughest type to understand. If you have a Type Six friend or family member who is into these conspiracy theories, you
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These headlines ruined my day today. Aren’t Southern Americans the types of people who sneer at higher education, that say you don’t need university to make it in this world, that a degree is a waste of money? What irony that they’re threatening to kill scientists who are telling them scientific facts about hurricanes. Spreading
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On the topic of politics from yesterday, here’s another way the right-left divide is exacertabed unnecessarily: the political gap is as much about us feeling unheard and invalidated in our respective intelligence centre as it is about different values. I used to fight with my dad- he is a head type (5/6) and I’m a
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Saturn rules government, and I come from a family that has done quite a bit of civil service. My siblings even married people who also ended up in government. My younger brother, who maybe has the most interesting civil servant career out of all of us, came to visit last night from Ottawa, and he
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Yesterday when I read that Claudine Gay submitted her resignation, my heart hurt for her. I know her downfall comes from republican critics of DEI, from pro-Israeli’s and from conservatives who found plagiarism in her doctoral thesis and journal articles, which I will address in bits and pieces as I process this bludgeoning, but today’s
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There is a study that I think about a lot- it’s a study on the Maharishi Effect where a certain number of people get trained in transcendental meditation in a given city, and once the number of participants reaches a certain mathematical threshold — like a certain percentage of the population — their meditation sessions
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A big disagreement that my boyfriend and I had this year was about Unconscious Bias Tests that show you your unconscious reaction to a minority population. Last year, I took an online test that seeks to demonstrate our deeply-buried unconscious reaction to black people that we can’t see in the conscious realm. You have to
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