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Peace, Community & Values - Parker Palmer [327]

Mindful Mama: Raising Kind, Confident Kids Without Losing Your Cool | Parenting Strategies For Big Emotions & More

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The Shadow Side Experience in Life That Our Culture Doesn't Want to Talk About

In the early phases of his depression, Hunter would be sitting in conversation with people and suddenly realized that he hadn't heard anything they had said. He'd devise a stratagem like, could you repeat that point again, maybe in different language? I want to make sure i understand what you 're saying. But it was just a survival strategy for the moment. And eventually i realize i just have to honest with folks and say, i'm in a place where i can't do this for a while. They gave me a three months leave, during which i was insulated, protected from all the demands of that job. That's community to reach yourself at the extremities of your life

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