by Joelle | Jun 3, 2022 | Blog
How do you forgive injustice? Mass shootings. Wild Fires. Climate change. Racism. War. Misogyny. One million dead due Covid. When I recently wrote on the topic of forgiveness, it was using the lens of family of origin. In sharing with a...
by Joelle | May 31, 2022 | Blog
What’s the flavor of your anger? I was late to a monthly virtual gathering of fellow creatives last week. Catching me up, they said, “we’re exploring our mothers: the negative the positive.” As synchronicity would have it, I’d been listening to Soraya Chemaly’s book:...
by Joelle | May 19, 2022 | Blog
How much resentment are you clinging to? I recently had a conversation with a colleague about co-creating my parents’ final chapters. We shared similar experiences of repeated socialized trauma. I spoke on actively working to forgive the very people who...
by Joelle | May 17, 2022 | Blog
How judgmental are you? Aloof, moody, mysterious, bad ass. Cats used to be my pet of preference. When my ex suggested we adopt a dog, I resistantly agreed. And when he and his daughter would laugh hysterically at Harvest’s silly antics, I would find myself judging:...
by Joelle | May 7, 2022 | Blog
Growing up is required to enter into adulthood, so they say. It’s needed to be a fully functional, well versed, useful, educated and purposeful member of society. One who fulfills your civic and communal services. The training was clear: rules, protocols, parameters,...
by Joelle | Apr 5, 2022 | Blog
Last week I came down with the “creeping crud.” The stressors of traveling back and forth across the ocean to support my parents with the initial stages of moving into a medicalized nursing facility took a toll on my health. I’ve been reflecting...
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