Brene Brown recently gave her second TED lecture on the topic of vulnerability. Her research is intelligent, thoughtful, and inspiring. While the video is not yet available, she has posted some powerful reflections on her website. I am gobsmacked by how self critical people are, how harshly we judge ourselves while at the same time
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Mishkan A sanctuary is neither shrine nor fortress It is refuge shelter freedom fly paper for love © KLE
I spend a lot of my time in conversation…talking, listening, talking some more. Over the past few years I have come to love the silence in between the words. Not the kind of awkward, punishing silence that creates tension, but spacious, patient, silence that invites the truth to come forward in its own time. Silence
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Recently I was grading a stack of final papers for one of my classes, and I began to notice a common habit among some of my students. Female students, to be specific. Their writing style, format and content was more passive, tentative and cautious. Even the sentence structure and grammar was in the passive voice,
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During my spiritual direction training, I was fascinated to learn that some of my colleagues had been working with the same spiritual director for many years–in some cases, many decades. I felt a pang of longing when I heard that; what would it be like to have someone witness the unfolding of another’s spiritual journey
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