Category Archives: Healing

Dawnland and The Gatherings

Posted on July 12, 2021 by jenny

Early in January, Hanover Friends Meeting hosted a talk by Bruce Duthu about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Maine. The TRC was intended to uncover the truth about child-welfare practice with Maine’s Native people. They wanted to create opportunities … Continue reading →

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Empathetic Distress

Posted on May 22, 2021 by jenny

From Kosmos Journal, 5/18/21 Unfortunately, the difficulties of late capitalism, as more of us are pressured to compete with each other in distorted markets, while we increasingly perceive the turbulence both around and ahead of us, means that anxiety is … Continue reading →

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Guide Meditation: Robin Williams

Posted on May 10, 2021 by jenny

June 17, 1993 Writers group, Sybil & Lynn Guide Meditation: This is a standard one, I don’t remember where I got it. I may have had it on tape. You start following a path, then come to a cave, then … Continue reading →

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Safe Places for Me

Posted on May 6, 2021 by jenny

I have felt unsafe most of my life without realizing it. Growing up, I felt safe in a book, and in the woods. Books and nature have remained places of safety for me. Looking back, I realized I felt safe … Continue reading →

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The Support of the Ordinary, Reprise

Posted on May 5, 2021 by jenny

I did a blog post on the support of the ordinary back in November of 2018. I had been at Kendal for about a year. Here’s a paragraph: Erica has been telling me that I will begin to get a … Continue reading →

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“Real Substantive Engagement,” reprise

Posted on April 6, 2021 by jenny

This is from a longer post. My therapist praised (October 14, 2016) “Your tenacity in wanting to be engaged in real substantive ways.” It’s an important concept for me. I think it’s one of the reasons I’m doing so much … Continue reading →

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“Stuck in Their Misery”

Posted on March 21, 2021 by jenny

I got an email recently from someone who said I was “stuck in my misery.” Feeling fortified by the knowledge that I hadn’t wasted my suffering, and knowing that our culture tends to blame people for their suffering, I didn’t … Continue reading →

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I choose to trust…

Posted on March 13, 2021 by jenny

Recently I’ve been going through a bad time. Waking up in the morning feeling disconnected from everything and everybody. Finally I remembered that when Trump was elected, I dealt with my despair by reciting “Peace, Love, Justice…” even though the … Continue reading →

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Primary Satisfactions and Secondary Satisfactions

Posted on February 24, 2021 by jenny

I found this such a good explanation for how our culture produces so many addictions, including addiction to money. One sign of “secondary satisfaction” is, no matter how much you get, you always want more. From Francis Weller: Through studying … Continue reading →

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A Container for Initiation

Posted on February 23, 2021 by jenny

Weller describes the container: What distinguishes these two things is initiation, what I call the contained encounter with death. The containment was provided by the community, by the elders, by the ancestors, by the rituals, by the space itself. In … Continue reading →

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