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Where shadow stops being insight and the consequences of truth reorganize a life. Insight is ubiquitous. Threshold honesty is rare.
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Do Not Bring That Baby Into Marshall (opens the original)
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A ginormous tree fell on our house while my three-month-old daughter was sleeping in our bed. My husband and I were beside her.It came down against the windows and exterior wall directly behind our headboard. We jumped up in shock and I grabbed our baby, trying to get her away from the windows before I even fully understood what had happened. Some of the branches were a foot or two from going through us.Subscribe nowBut the windows and brick wall held. The house was significantly damaged, but we
Be Transformed, But Not Away From Me (opens the original)
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No Better Than a Corrupt Government. (opens the original)
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“I am not lying to you.”He said it with conviction, and it was convincing. That was the predicament.My intuition was screaming. It had been getting louder and louder for a long time, yet his words offered a counter-story that my intuition didn’t: composure. He held a steady voice and carried the confidence of a man being wrongly accused.I felt trapped. I felt delusional. Paranoid. I had no external, objective evidence for what my intuition kept pointing toward. Just a knowing. And a knowing, I h
That’s Your Projection. (opens the original)
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“That’s your projection.”It’s one of the most common phrases I hear when people first encounter shadow play. Usually it means something like: “You’re seeing me through your own distortion. That has nothing to do with me.”I’ve never found that particularly useful. What has become much more valuable is asking a different question:What happens if I include myself in the inquiry my own judgement is inviting?Subscri
Stealing a Sweet Potato Fry (opens the original)
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I’ve been investigating the distinction between protection and development.Not just: How do we reduce harm? But: What makes a human being increasingly capable of participation?By participation, I don’t simply mean taking part in an activity. I mean the capacity to remain in relationship with ourselves, with another person, and with reality itself… even when what emerges is uncertain, uncomfortable, or unexpected.Protection asks: How do we reduce the possibility of harm?Development asks: How do w
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