For our Trauma Symposium on April 5th, we will bring rosemary. Rosemary has been considered helpful for memory for many years…
Van Der Kolk articulates trauma with deep clarity when he writes that the past cannot be changed but what can be dealt with are…
“In extinction a darkness falls over the world not because the lights have gone out but because the eyes that behold the light have been closed.” — Jonathan Schell
We are given the image of Gaia, the personification of earth as a female, to guide us…
Some resources discussed in class today with Doug Shirley and Wendy Chapin…
Sandra Bem and the Sex Role Inventory
John Gottman on emotional flooding (men flood more reliably/often than women)
Dr. Stephen Newby spoke in class today and taught and led us in a negro spiritual. Was good to learn about the meaning behind the words.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft4lv9jVQRE
Van der Kolk on trauma and memory
http://www.nicabm.com/vanderkolk-treatingtrauma-2016/confirmed/
Let There Be Light — John Huston
(Mary) Our very humanity and participation within the created order demands we take an eco-justice stance. Tanner makes a strong point about the shared status of humanity within the rest of creation; this she refers to as our “creaturehood.” God’s “radical…
