Moonias! Moonias! (White Man White Man) the children screeched as I stood outside their home on the Maskwacis First Nations Reservation. As a Community Social Worker, I had been summoned to investigate a child abuse allegation. I was twenty-two years old and it had...
History is not just fact and events. History is also a pain in the heart and we repeat history until we are able to make another’s pain in the heart our own. – Julius Lester Lester’s insight reminds us that the history of one has to penetrate the life of another...
It’s easier being in each other’s presence, or in each other’s absence than in the constant presence of each other’s absence. – Gianpiero Petriglieri Though the author scripted his insight in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, he confers upon us a depth of...
People come to therapy because they have lost their imaginations, their playfulness, their vitality. Their lives are hidden behind shame and desperation. Their ability to find hope in the midst of suffering is compromised and they have ceased to find creative ways to...
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