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Category Archives: Getting Along with Each Other
The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
My main focus in life is helping people heal from emotional wounds. I don’t see much talk about this outside of a handful of discussions I have fairly regularly with a few people close to me. Fortunately it seems to … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged emotional healing, emotions, healing, inner peace, kids, pain, parents, peace, The Missing Piece of the Puzzle, trauma
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Review of Homecoming
Homecoming is an incredibly profound book by John Bradshaw. It was a great introduction for me to inner child work. I’m still no expert on it but now that I’ve finished working through Homecoming, I see how powerful and healing … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged boundaries, communication, emotional healing, emotions, freedom, healing, Homecoming, inner child work, inner freedom, inner peace, inner work, John Bradshaw, Letting Go, pain, peace, personal freedom, Review of Homecoming, transcendence, transformation
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Risk
Is it acceptable to put another person at risk of harm without their permission? If so, what type of harm, what degree of risk, in what situations, how often, and why? If not, why not, and how might that force … Continue reading
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Tagged behavior, cars, consequences, decisions, driving, flight, planes, risk, risks
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The Poetry of Language
Writing, as with everything else, is easiest when the mind is still and ideas are allowed to flow freely. A writing block I sometimes experience comes from trying to make it perfect on the first go. I can overcome this … Continue reading
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Tagged communication, grammar, language, self-expression, speaking, Stephen Fry, The Poetry of Language, understanding, writing
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Take My Ideas, Please
I once heard economist David Friedman say something along the lines of “When you’re young, you’re afraid somebody will steal your ideas; when you’re old, you’re afraid nobody will”. Though I’m quite young, I still resonate with Friedman’s statement. That’s … Continue reading
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Tagged David Friedman, ideas, sharing, sharing my ideas, Take My Ideas Please
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Black Swans and Unintended Consequences
Within the past few years, I learned of the term “black swans”. Black swans are things that never even cross your mind as possibilities until after they happen. The term came from back when all swans were thought to be … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged black swans, Black Swans and Unintended Consequences, blind spots, consequences, inner peace, intentions, peace, self-awareness, uncertainty, variables
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Gentle Lessons
Every so often, I get opportunities to dig deep and work on things within myself without too much pain. I call these opportunities “gentle lessons”. Here are a few relatively recent examples. The first example concerns my dog, Sawyer. He … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged dog, dogs, emotions, Gentle Lessons, growth, healing, inner work, lessons, pain, personal growth, Sawyer
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Avoiding Disaster on the Way to Utopia
I often see people use the word “utopia” to describe what they consider to be an unrealistic or extremely unlikely society. In conversations about how the world could be, once someone characterizes another’s viewpoint as utopian, the exchange usually devolves … Continue reading
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Tagged Avoiding Disaster on the Way to Utopia, communities, community, decisions, healing, incentives, modern society, peace, society, utopia
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A Wave of Nostalgia
Sometime within the past few weeks, I listened to a cover of “Green Tambourine” from Recess: School’s Out. It immediately took me back to when I first watched that movie in elementary school. I think I saw it during summer … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged A Wave of Nostalgia, friends, friendship, Green Tambourine, inner work, memories, nostalgia, pain, personal growth, school, youth
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A Sobering Perspective
We’re all going to die someday. Even if advances in technology and medicine help us live much longer than we currently can, eventually either time will catch up with us or we’ll decide that we’ve had enough. Death is the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Sobering Perspective, death, life, opportunity, overview effect, perspective, Zoom Out
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