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Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone that is suffering is just your kind, non-anxious, non-judgemental presence. No advice, no words. Just joining them, combining your tears with theirs. Few things are more healing in times of great suffering.
June 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Sometimes the greatest gift you can give someone that is suffering is just your kind, non-anxious, non-judgemental presence. No advice, no words. Just joining them, combining your tears with theirs. Few things are more healing in times of great suffering.
As always Wade Mullen is able to brilliantly describe very complex abuse strategies. I usually like to quote the article I share but there are too many to choose from. Thank you Wade for continuing to bring light to these dark systemic issues.
open.substack.com/pub/wademull...
open.substack.com/pub/wademull...
Shape Shifters and Face Dancers
When deception wears many faces
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
As always Wade Mullen is able to brilliantly describe very complex abuse strategies. I usually like to quote the article I share but there are too many to choose from. Thank you Wade for continuing to bring light to these dark systemic issues.
open.substack.com/pub/wademull...
open.substack.com/pub/wademull...
“As we watch the military being deployed against American citizens and against the will of a state governor, and as we prepare to watch a military parade transform the nation’s capital, it’s appropriate to pay attention to echoes from the past.”
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
Echoes from the past
Reflections on a brief sojourn
open.substack.com
June 11, 2025 at 6:16 PM
“As we watch the military being deployed against American citizens and against the will of a state governor, and as we prepare to watch a military parade transform the nation’s capital, it’s appropriate to pay attention to echoes from the past.”
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
open.substack.com/pub/kristind...
“Here is a gut-wrenching truth about the by-product of trauma: the harm you do to yourself through self-contempt is greater than the harm that has been done to you. By "self-contempt" I simply mean harshness from you to you. The opposite of self-contempt is kindness.”
Adam Young
Adam Young
June 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
“Here is a gut-wrenching truth about the by-product of trauma: the harm you do to yourself through self-contempt is greater than the harm that has been done to you. By "self-contempt" I simply mean harshness from you to you. The opposite of self-contempt is kindness.”
Adam Young
Adam Young
“A year of kindness toward your own heart will take you further on your healing journey than a year of weekly therapy with your dream therapist. This is not a jab at the counseling profession; it is an observation about the power of self-kindness to evoke change in the human heart.”
Adam Young
Adam Young
June 8, 2025 at 7:03 PM
“A year of kindness toward your own heart will take you further on your healing journey than a year of weekly therapy with your dream therapist. This is not a jab at the counseling profession; it is an observation about the power of self-kindness to evoke change in the human heart.”
Adam Young
Adam Young
“A critical part of the story of White Americans is that we stole the land we now live on, destroyed the native inhabitants of America, and enslaved an untold number of Africans to produce wealth for us.”
- Adam Young
Make Sense of Your Story
ch9 What if you explored your collective/cultural story?
- Adam Young
Make Sense of Your Story
ch9 What if you explored your collective/cultural story?
May 30, 2025 at 7:55 PM
“A critical part of the story of White Americans is that we stole the land we now live on, destroyed the native inhabitants of America, and enslaved an untold number of Africans to produce wealth for us.”
- Adam Young
Make Sense of Your Story
ch9 What if you explored your collective/cultural story?
- Adam Young
Make Sense of Your Story
ch9 What if you explored your collective/cultural story?
Watching how often power wins, especially when those clamoring for power, develop strategies for takeovers, misinformation and silencing the marginalized, is enough to make one despair. Continuing to fight to choose the way of love and hope.
May 19, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Watching how often power wins, especially when those clamoring for power, develop strategies for takeovers, misinformation and silencing the marginalized, is enough to make one despair. Continuing to fight to choose the way of love and hope.
“Learning love is accepting the invitation to reclaim the truth of our belovedness.
Learning love is letting ourselves be loved fully and extravagantly.
We learn to trust that in this love we come to the fulfillment of our humanity and the fulfillment of our calling.”
David Benner
Learning love is letting ourselves be loved fully and extravagantly.
We learn to trust that in this love we come to the fulfillment of our humanity and the fulfillment of our calling.”
David Benner
May 6, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“Learning love is accepting the invitation to reclaim the truth of our belovedness.
Learning love is letting ourselves be loved fully and extravagantly.
We learn to trust that in this love we come to the fulfillment of our humanity and the fulfillment of our calling.”
David Benner
Learning love is letting ourselves be loved fully and extravagantly.
We learn to trust that in this love we come to the fulfillment of our humanity and the fulfillment of our calling.”
David Benner
“Because God is love, and because human beings are made in God's image, love is who we are. Love is not, first and foremost, something that we do. More basically, it is who we are.”
David Benner
David Benner
May 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Because God is love, and because human beings are made in God's image, love is who we are. Love is not, first and foremost, something that we do. More basically, it is who we are.”
David Benner
David Benner
Like most abusive narcissists he is figuring out where he can push limits and will justify it by saying “it was a joke, you’re so sensitive.” He is grooming a nation.
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Trump posts spoof picture dressed as pope
The US President is seen in what appears to be an AI-generated colour image, wearing papal regalia. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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May 3, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Like most abusive narcissists he is figuring out where he can push limits and will justify it by saying “it was a joke, you’re so sensitive.” He is grooming a nation.
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Curiosity, kindness, compassion… will lead to much more fruitful conversations with others and yourself.
May 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Curiosity, kindness, compassion… will lead to much more fruitful conversations with others and yourself.
“Love cannot be simply a result of discipline and resolve. It must flow from the heart. Regardless of the amount of love I naturally tend to have in my heart, it is not enough. The love I need is the love of God as his love becomes mine.”
David Benner
David Benner
May 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Love cannot be simply a result of discipline and resolve. It must flow from the heart. Regardless of the amount of love I naturally tend to have in my heart, it is not enough. The love I need is the love of God as his love becomes mine.”
David Benner
David Benner
“Love is the acid test of Christian spirituality. If Christian conversion is authentic, we are in the process of becoming more loving. If we are not becoming more loving, something is seriously wrong.” David Benner
April 30, 2025 at 6:28 PM
“Love is the acid test of Christian spirituality. If Christian conversion is authentic, we are in the process of becoming more loving. If we are not becoming more loving, something is seriously wrong.” David Benner
"Our aim should be to develop a spontaneous attachment love for our enemies, where loving them becomes a more natural outflow of our deep connection with God."
James Wilder
James Wilder
April 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Our aim should be to develop a spontaneous attachment love for our enemies, where loving them becomes a more natural outflow of our deep connection with God."
James Wilder
James Wilder
A person’s mistreatment of animals is often an indication of their lack of empathy for people.
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A person’s mistreatment of animals is often an indication of their lack of empathy for people.
What a difference it would make to think of people, earth, well actually all of creation as something to nurture and care for and not to use.
April 28, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What a difference it would make to think of people, earth, well actually all of creation as something to nurture and care for and not to use.
"Our aim should be to develop a spontaneous attachment love for our enemies, where loving them becomes a more natural outflow of our deep connection with God."
James Wilder
James Wilder
April 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Our aim should be to develop a spontaneous attachment love for our enemies, where loving them becomes a more natural outflow of our deep connection with God."
James Wilder
James Wilder
"Without attachment love for, and inspiration from God, we will never get to the point of truly loving our enemies. It's impossible to do so on our own."
James Wilder
James Wilder
April 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"Without attachment love for, and inspiration from God, we will never get to the point of truly loving our enemies. It's impossible to do so on our own."
James Wilder
James Wilder
"The ability to love our enemies serves as a crucial litmus test for our apprenticeship to Jesus. It reveals the depth of our transformation."
James Wilder
James Wilder
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"The ability to love our enemies serves as a crucial litmus test for our apprenticeship to Jesus. It reveals the depth of our transformation."
James Wilder
James Wilder
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." MLK Jr
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." MLK Jr
April 27, 2025 at 11:58 AM
"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." MLK Jr
"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." MLK Jr
"The nector of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
Gandhi
Gandhi
April 26, 2025 at 1:09 PM
"The nector of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
Gandhi
Gandhi
Proverbs 10:12: "Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses."
April 26, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Proverbs 10:12: "Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses."
Fear and hate are the easiest things to give into, but also the most destructive. Fight to choose love instead.
April 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Fear and hate are the easiest things to give into, but also the most destructive. Fight to choose love instead.
It’s a battle sometimes to choose love instead of giving into hate.
April 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s a battle sometimes to choose love instead of giving into hate.