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  • Stonehengewinter

    Markers

    I sat down to write a blog tonight thinking, “this will be the last blog I write before we hit the solstice. The next time I sit down to write, the earth will have started back towards the center of that peculiar little wobble that …

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    Keeping Fire

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    I grew up in a house that was heated by wood fires, one upstairs and one downstairs. My dad was the keeper of those fires until I became old enough to gradually take over that role. I’ve tended, literally, thousands of fires as I was …

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    Appetite and Need

    In this weekend’s blog, I want to explore the distance between appetite (what we think we need in order to be well) vs. need (what we actually do need.) These two things are frequently misaligned, sometimes drastically so. Let me give you some examples: Americans …

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    Suffering as a bad habit (Part Two)

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    In last week’s blog I wrote about my childhood discovery that sharing wounding can be one of the ways people become close to each other. I became attached to this particular aspect of self-disclosure and honed it into a fine art during the first part …

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    Suffering as a bad habit (Part One)

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    When I was a child, I had a number of rather intense friendships–and I liked intense friendships. There was something about closeness I thrived on, something about emotional intimacy which was meaningful to me. It made me feel fully alive and fully connected. Fairly early …

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    Making It Personal

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    Something that has been inspiring, rewarding and educational for me these past few weeks is hearing from people who have experienced Touch Practice, either individually or in a workshop, who have then gone on to establish their own practice in one form or another. I …

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  • Kid Shouting1

    Managing Emotional Pain

    In the process of holding and sitting with many men, as with my own life, I’ve noticed different approaches for managing emotional pain. Most of us use all of these strategies at one time or another. Each strategy can be effective, or ineffective, depending on …

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    The Void

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    Many of you are aware of an empty space deep within you. Often we’re completely unconscious of it, but occasionally we become aware of this deep, deep yearning, a loneliness, a desire for something outside of us. Sometimes it can be mild, like a craving, …

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    Sharpening

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    “Sharpening” and “softening” are two opposite techniques we can use to steer psychodynamic forces within groups. Both techniques can be applied skillfully or unskillfully to influence or manipulate behavior and experience. “Sharpening” is accomplished by intentionally exaggerating individual differences while minimizing or ignoring what we have …

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  • Beginner Mind

    How Will It Go?

    I’m impressed this week by how difficult it is to show up to our next experience, ANY experience, without having written, in some small way, an advance script of “how it will go.” This happens to me at work all the time. A meeting might …

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