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When someone tells me I have caused harm, I can feel defensive and make myself small and rigid in an attempt to protect myself from the pain of shame. It is difficult to let my body feel into the truth that I have the ability to hurt others and that I do hurt others. That just by being myself, I can hurt people. But that is the truth of being a per

Don Hanlon Johnson • Diverse Bodies, Diverse Practices: Toward an Inclusive Somatics

on here.

Jason Sugg • Occupy Psyche: Jungian and Archetypal Perspectives on a Movement

Most known for identifying the five stages of grief experienced by those dealing with death (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance),

Katherine Woodward Thomas • Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After

An older woman came forward to tell the story of her daughter, Chelsey. I heard audible sobs when she revealed—partway through her story—that she spoke on behalf of her daughter only because her daughter was no longer here. Chelsey had committed suicide, never having recovered from the damage of what Larry had done.

Rachael Denhollander • What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics

"Trying to make sense of the senseless, to process the unthinkable as it’s happening, the news cycle is already moving on, you haven’t stopped crying about the other recent tragedies, don’t know how to hold all this, your mind like a vase that is leaking, trying to find some way to contain all of this but it slips out, into everything, onto every s... See more

Shelby Lorman • how do you cope?

As cantadora (keeper of the old stories), and as an ethnic woman from two cultures, it would be

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

Study after study shows that having a good support network constitutes the single most powerful protection against becoming traumatized. Safety and terror are incompatible.

Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

We can better understand the woman who dives into excesses—the most common being drugs, alcohol, and bad love—and who is driven by soul-hunger by noting the behavior of the starved and ravening animal.

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

I asked Joan if she had noticed the part of herself that was critical. She acknowledged that she had, and I asked her how she felt toward that critic. This key question allowed her to begin to separate from that part and to access her Self. Joan responded that she hated the critic, because it reminded her of her mother. When I asked her what that c