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you can stumble through life never noticing the voice of your own muse, your body’s intuition, your connection to all things great and small you can ignore how they call to you never confronting how you avoid vulnerability through attachment to old wounds or you can leave behind what can never be undone along with [ ]
Traumatic experiences like sexual abuse leave us with more than flashbacks and symptoms like depression and anxiety. They impact our self-concept and how we make sense of our place in the world. Many of us wonder: What kind of person am I for this to have happened to me? What does life have in store [ ]
The heart was the last to go but left a clue where to find her: a smooth river rock heavy in my chest. I knew long before — an image had relayed the nature of her plea — a vision of us together feeling the wind breathe the trees. For so long I resisted the [ ]
It was an ordinary day, although unusually warm for an early morning in the desert sun. I wanted to nap in the shade of a Palo Verde tree, but my mind was heavy with regret—so many unacknowledged hurts, words I could not take back, feelings hid deep never to be revealed. My burden was too [ ]
Long before their falling-out, Carl Jung shared a tragic memory in a letter to Sigmund Freud: “ as a boy I was the victim of a sexual assault by a man I once worshipped” (cited in John Kerr s A Most Dangerous Method). Jung also shared his infatuation with Freud: my veneration for you has [ ]
We know freedom through the emotions and actions it ignites in us: joy, exhilaration, confidence, self-expression, playfulness. Yet, we cannot truly know freedom without some sense of belonging, which also ignites these same emotions and actions. Discourses that pit community against individual freedom have it wrong. Freedom and community are deeply intertwined. Tension between the [ ]
Prior to entering college, some women choose not to pursue majors in male-dominated fields like STEM, economics, and philosophy if they anticipate gender discrimination. For those who persevere, having professors sensitive to gender issues can protect against the impact sexism can have on emotional well-being, the ability to focus on studies, and future performance. Unfortunately, such mentors are…