Tag Archive for: Healing

View: Accountability, Punishment & Cancel Culture
Punishment culture encourages the view that an individual deserves harm — that the individual person is a “bad” person. Punishment marks someone as not worthy of belonging.

Cleansing Breaths
Our sighs when the Biden/Harris team was sworn in on January 20 are good starts. Breathing can help everything.

Saving Each Other
Sometimes it is much easier to be outraged by someone else’s victimhood than your own.

Reflecting on Now
I feel there is no way of healing from this without the support and collaboration of others.

Recorded Visual Q&A: Carolyn Holbrook and Tess Montgomery
The recorded Visual Q&A, "In These Times: An Intergenerational Conversation" with Carolyn Holbrook and Tess Montgomery

Tending to the Garden
I worked my way from a too-young, abusive marriage to college…

Indigenous Roots
(l-r) MaryAnne Quiroz is an artist organizer, community activator,…

Tapping Into Human Potential
It’s all socially constructed, so you have equal amounts of compassion for the person who’s being battered and the person who’s battering. You’ll never end oppression with oppression.

Perseverance for Veterans
Elaine Wynne works with veterans at her home office in Golden…

Lessons From Dying
Sarah Agaton Howes is an artist, designer, and cultural arts…

Plant-Based
Allison Austin teaching a remedy class. (Photo by Raven Words…

Fragments of Military Service
Chante Wolf (courtesy photo)
I served 12 years active duty…


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