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The Words that Come Before All Else
The Thanksgiving Address A river of words as old as the people themselves, known more accurately in the Onondaga language as The Words...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 28, 202010 min read
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The Truth of You
by Osho If you have found truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find. Truth is functioning through you....

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 24, 20201 min read
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Context for CoVid
Zach Bush MD joins Del Bigtree on The Highwire for an evolutionary discussion on why Coronavirus is here, what it’s trying to tell us,...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 22, 20201 min read
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Differentiation
As a child I was in the position of being the emotional caretaker of the adults around me. This was taking place during those early...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 20, 20202 min read
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Attention to the Middle
When I’m activated, when personal and collective patterns of shame, rage, and fear are taking over my consciousness – two options...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 16, 20202 min read
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Outside, Looking In
In each of us there are a variety of aspects of our human beingness that we resist or deny. It might be selfishness, unacknowledged...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 12, 20202 min read
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What God Wants . . .
Your Mother and My Mother by Hafiz Fear is the cheapest room in the house I would like to see you living In better conditions, for your...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 8, 20201 min read
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Discriminating Defenses
There are times when psychologically defending against certain feelings can be the most skillful way to handle our lives. For example, if...

Annelisa MacBean
Dec 4, 20202 min read
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Choosing Joy
Depression has lowered its heavy weight over me periodically since I was a child, but never has there been a period in my 65 years in...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 30, 20203 min read
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Remembering to Be Grateful
The sickening feeling of ingratitude creeps into my life slowly and inconspicuously. It manifests in subtle ways, like a feeling of...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 26, 20203 min read
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Inside the Story
I’m starting to get that it’s not so much about whether I need to or even can extricate myself from the developmental-cultural-historical...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 22, 20202 min read
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Self and Others
How we perceive and experience emotions and somatic cycles, how inner processes of awareness unfold is unique to each person. I find I am...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 16, 20203 min read
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Projection
In my work I am frequently, unintentionally asked to carry the projection of a client’s inner healer, which they have lost touch with, a...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 12, 20202 min read
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The Harvest
I am walking more in the early mornings now. Today appears to be another ordinary Wednesday, on the face of it. Summer and Fall are in a...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 8, 20202 min read
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Good-Bye
In times of transition, my natural tendency is to rush to the rebirth, to move quickly toward re-establishing a newer version of what is...

Annelisa MacBean
Nov 4, 20202 min read
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