Resistance Is Necessary

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Category: the observant therapist…

  • A Survivor Responds to the Stanford Rapist’s Father

    [Editor’s note: Every once in awhile, someone else’s words are so eloquent and important that I know they need to be shared . This is one of those times. I…


  • “Craftspersonship” — for Michelle

    This morning, my wife went off on a rant  about supporters of Bernie Sanders who say they won’t vote for Hillary Clinton if she gets the party’s nomination/if Bernie doesn’t…


  • Kesha and “The Girl In The Book”

    My daughters often listen to music that I can’t imagine listening to, sometimes with lyrics I can’t imagine or don’t approve of, but — after sharing my distaste (and I…


  • Man’s Inhumanity To Man…

    7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; 9 in vain do they worship…


  • We Need to Reign In Deadly Force…

    There has been some interesting news lately regarding the rash of police shootings of citizens that plagued our country in 2015. In a study of Chicago police and a wider…


  • “How To Figure Out Anything (About Ethics)”

    Editor’s note: Every once in awhile, I have a sermon that expresses an important (to me) theological point. This is one of those. The beginning piece is from the morning’s…


  • This S— Has Got To Stop. It Just Does.

    Today, more people died in a school massacre. I don’t need to publish the date, because — unless we do something NOW that first sentence will still be appropriate. Apparently,…


  • I Get It Now – Explaining The Last Four Years

    (For Lisa Lew, who thought I could –and should– write something) I have been wondering about how to psychologically explain the insanity – yes, insanity – of the last four…


  • A Reminder: Relationships Break

    I write this from my therapy perspective, with no particular person or couple in mind, but I want to point out to anyone reading that if you mess up enough…


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