By Peg Streep — 2017
Taking a close look at the elephant hidden in plain sight.
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CLEAR ALL
What if our own crucible of self-sacrifice can teach us more about enlightenment than male mystics ever could?
The 20th-century rabbi and theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel writes often about “radical amazement,” that sense of “wow” about the world, as the root of spirituality.
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There is enough room in our spiritual expressions not only for all of the love we feel for our families, but also for the hectic, distracted chaos that so often defines parenting small children — if we are willing to expand our understanding of what religious expression is, and can be.
Why do we feel shame and how does shame change us?
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Best-selling author Brené Brown on the risks and rewards of daring greatly.
Awake girls might be a little angry. But they know that the poison is outside, not inside. And they'll work to clear the air for all of us.
At a weekend workshop I led, one of the participants, Marian, shared her story about the shame and guilt that had tortured her.