This is an update from the original post Use The Force written in 2019. Why reprise this now, you ask? Because going through events, whether they are playing out on the world stage, or your personal stage, or both as they are often simultaneous, require a kind of patience that takes practice. We re-learn how… Read more »
We are all connected to one other through intuitive empathy. Last week we talked about how this type of empathy is different from emotional empathy, which is the willingness to imagine another person’s lived experience, whether we have similarities or not. Intuitive and emotional empathy can co-exist and often do, but intuitive empathy is immediate and… Read more »
It’s a relatively new phenomenon for people to casually refer to themselves as ’empaths.’ But I’m not sure everyone is on the same page as to what an empath is exactly. So I, like many people, share in a good dose of skepticism behind the rising wave of #empathslander. Let’s discuss what empathy is and isn’t…. Read more »
Junior Gorman the Younger and I are having a contest this summer: whoever clocks the week with the least amount of time on social media before Labor Day wins. We haven’t decided on a prize yet, but I suspect spending the summer with strong guardrails around the hellscape that the digital social world has become… Read more »
My partner and I have the absolute honor of being part of a big rainbow family. We are at the helm of our chapter (along with his amazing co-parent) insomuch as we are the elder members of the bunch, but this means very little when you consider they are all way smarter than us. We… Read more »
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