There is no information left to know, it is time for the work of personal transformation, but people don't want to change.... Thank you for that perspective Prentis! This reminded me of the work of Lindsay Gibson about emotionally immature people. At times it feels like we are living in an emotionally immature society where no matter what you say, if people don't want to understand, they cannot understand you and if people want to understand, there is nothing you can say that will keep them from understanding you. We live in a time where we need to either make the choice to understand and change or live in the consequences of stagnation. I deeply appreciate your candor and straight forward perspective!
"I had a lot of theories, and then I had a lot of practice..." -Prentis Hemphill Wow, that just nails the experience of addressing any social issue from poverty to education. We may all read and think we know, but we don't really understand until we are elbows deep in the practice. "The tears, the love, the practice, the holding" nothing can really replace the experience of being with the people, not thinking about the people or "for" the people. Thank you for that.
Saying things back to yourself in a way that you can refute them less....Yes, thank you for that. I like the practice of writing yourself a letter from love. What would love have you know today?
Healing is a luxury which my immigrant parents never had. My immigrant parents immigrated from a country that had been occupied and came to America speaking and writing zero to little English. My father worked two jobs (kitchen cook and janitor) then later he, my mom and us kids worked in a small mom and pop restaurant. As neared retirement, I had the financial luxury to work on healing from traumas (sudden passing of my mom and weeks thereafter my workplace shamed and traumatized me on exploiting the sudden death of my mom)
There is no information left to know, it is time for the work of personal transformation, but people don't want to change.... Thank you for that perspective Prentis! This reminded me of the work of Lindsay Gibson about emotionally immature people. At times it feels like we are living in an emotionally immature society where no matter what you say, if people don't want to understand, they cannot understand you and if people want to understand, there is nothing you can say that will keep them from understanding you. We live in a time where we need to either make the choice to understand and change or live in the consequences of stagnation. I deeply appreciate your candor and straight forward perspective!
"I had a lot of theories, and then I had a lot of practice..." -Prentis Hemphill Wow, that just nails the experience of addressing any social issue from poverty to education. We may all read and think we know, but we don't really understand until we are elbows deep in the practice. "The tears, the love, the practice, the holding" nothing can really replace the experience of being with the people, not thinking about the people or "for" the people. Thank you for that.
Saying things back to yourself in a way that you can refute them less....Yes, thank you for that. I like the practice of writing yourself a letter from love. What would love have you know today?
Healing is a luxury which my immigrant parents never had. My immigrant parents immigrated from a country that had been occupied and came to America speaking and writing zero to little English. My father worked two jobs (kitchen cook and janitor) then later he, my mom and us kids worked in a small mom and pop restaurant. As neared retirement, I had the financial luxury to work on healing from traumas (sudden passing of my mom and weeks thereafter my workplace shamed and traumatized me on exploiting the sudden death of my mom)
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