mental-health
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Good and the Danger of the “Tsunami of Normal”
We don’t appreciate normal in our culture until something changes and suddenly nothing seems as we thought it to be. But then, that is how life works. Normal is accepted in disdainful neglect until either death, failure, disaster, or unusual… Continue reading
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Good, Empathy, and Empathy’s Abuse
Michael Ventura, author of Applied Empathy, offered an interesting take on the subject of empathy in his article in the New York Times entitled The Dark Side of Empathy (May 4, 2025). He described two forms of empathy; one being… Continue reading
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Democracy and Truth: The Power of Knowing What Else is True
In a training session on Trauma Resilience the presenter who has worked the earthquakes, tsunamis, fires, and large disasters across the globe directly assisting people who appeared to have lost everything, forever, gave me a life saving question to ask. … Continue reading
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Good and Obscene Wealth: the Newest Disability
In case you haven’t noticed the term disability has been transformed in these past decades. In the 1980s and 90s people with functional differences from the mainstream stripped the prefix ‘dis’ from disability and decided that the only issues that… Continue reading
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Good and the “Beauty and Bad” Balancing System for Mental Health
I am inclined to worry about people who are in the political minority these days. I worry for their long term health. The Meta-Trance of the day has these good folk rummaging though the internet information systems looking for evidence… Continue reading
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Good, Open Ears, Shut Mouth and Stories for Now
The minority party is making little headway and in fact losing ground. How can this be? Perhaps their lesson here is almost anything is better for a human being than being patronized. “I feel your pain . . . etc.”… Continue reading
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Good, Nurturance, Flirting with a Painful Disaster and the Long Game
For many reading this website the short game is already lost for at least four to ten years. The Nurturance Community is part of the developmental long game that could occupy us who are living now in a multi-generational mission… Continue reading
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Good, Safety, Children, and What Matters Most
The furies of this day are tomorrow’s dust in the wind. Making this world safe for today’s children is making the world safe for the future’s adults. Overcoming the meta-trance that makes this world so unsafe today is more than… Continue reading
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Good, Energy Addiction, and youth as our Sacrificial Lambs
One of my contracts in organizational work was working with a community that was recognizing the importance of changing to a harm reduction model to reduce the scourge of drug addiction. Now with time and perspective, as I watch the price… Continue reading
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Good, Tolerance and the Boulder of Violence
This Project’s focus on good cannot have much validity unless we address the edges of tolerance and intolerance. The world has too much evidence of intolerable violence in motion right now. Our country is going to be pushed to the… Continue reading
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