Louis Weinstock - The Heart Of Being Human
Mastering the art of being human in this mad and beautiful world.
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Who Is Raising Our Boys (opens the original)
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Some notes from a talk I delivered to the lovely people of Elsevier, part of a series called ‘No Substitute: Family in the age of Manosphere and Machines’, and this talk was called “Lost Boys: Understanding The Crisis Young Men Face, and What Families Can Do.”1. On Friday, I asked a room full of parents a simple question: Who was in the village that raised you when you were a teenager?As the chat filled up with uncles, aunts, grandparents, neighbours, one person slipped this one in...Snoop DoggI
Why you need to reclaim space to stay sane.... (opens the original)
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The Exhausting Habit of Trying to Fix Everything (opens the original)
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1. On the compulsion to fix each otherIt all started whilst I was having a lovely soak in the bath. Imagine the scene, a couple of rubber duckies and a little santa beard made from my oud-scented bubble bath. The possibility of peace was soaking into my pruned fingers when suddenly an URGENT AND IMPORTANT thought rammed into my head: I forgot to call my sister back! ’With this one single incursion into my consciousness, I was jolted out of my foamy paradise and into a self-inflicted micro-aggres
The Healing Power of Making a Total Fool of Onself (opens the original)
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This is the first experiment in a Heart of Being Human podcast, so please let me know if these kind of conversations are helpful and interesting.My guest is Barnaby King from Clown Spirit, a master clown who also did a PHD in clowning and social change in Latin America. He has spent a large chunk of his life exploring what happens when we stop trying so hard to look composed, impressive or acceptable, and allow ourselves to be seen in what he calls “the beauty of your ridiculousness.”We ended up
The Indigenous Mancunian's Guide to Belonging (opens the original)
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The following was originally a Facebook post that got loads of of interest, so resharing here.By indigenous, I should explain, I mean my people have roamed the industrial savannah of the North West for three generations. "Alrite r kid," we say to each other, a phrase that means I would take a bullet for you, but we will not be discussing our feelings today.Our native outfit is the Kappa shell suit and bucket hat, and yes, we indigenous Mancunians have truly mastered the rain dance, performed wit
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