When We Mistake Systemic Injury for Character
What if the primary problem isn’t the person but the system? This post highlights how structural disadvantage becomes a reputation and why we so often get the story wrong.
What if the primary problem isn’t the person but the system? This post highlights how structural disadvantage becomes a reputation and why we so often get the story wrong.
Weekend Wisdom: If you don’t have time for what matters, stop doing the things that don’t. I have the creative energy of a sloth right now. I say that without researching how much creative energy a sloth… The post building a tiny home + overwhelmed with digital clutter appeared first on Be More with Less.
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Personal Perspective: The Hogeweyk focuses on what is maintained rather than what is lost in end-stage dementia care, and everyone benefits.
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As I am writing this, same sex marriage is legal in the United States and in 2025 the supreme court declined to revisit the gay marriage decision. But as Roe v Wade was overturned, it is wise to consider that there is no such thing as settled law. While I am a divorced straight…
Understand the best therapy approaches for trauma, how they differ, and how to choose gentle, compassionate support at a pace that feels safe for you now.
Few things in our culture are more wounding than the concept of healing — as if the pains and losses that we suffer are an illness, a malfunction of the psyche to be cut out like a tumor, rather than a natural function of being alive, of feeling life deeply and living it fully. All…
“Our neurons must be used … not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct.” “Principles are good and worth the effort only when they develop into deeds,” Van Gogh wrote to his brother in a beautiful letter about talking vs. doing and the human pursuit of…