Lessons From a Black Friday: Year Six
In loving Painter, I had to let go of everything I thought I knew. I had to embrace the annihilation. That was seven years ago today. Contrary to reports, I’m not dead yet.
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54: Lessons from a Black Friday
Here are a few of the lessons learned since that dark, unhappy, and personally blackest of Black Fridays two years ago.
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Thoughts on Pema Chödrön’s Non-Aggression and the 4 Maras
We are what we embrace. If we embrace the problem than we are the problem. If we embrace the solution we are the solution. If I embrace shame do I not become my shame?
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Thoughts on the Flying Monkeys (The Narcissist’s Tool for the Smear Campaign)
Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying there aren’t “narcissists in the world, just not as many as you would guess from the number diagnosed as narcissists by disappointed partners.”
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Thoughts on The Six Kinds of Loneliness by Pema Chödrön
As we all do who are angry, hurt, shame-filled and unskillful, “we automatically want to cover over the pain in one way or another,” adds Chödrön, “identifying with victory or victimhood.” I reality I have at times alternated between both rolls in an attempt to avoid what seems like desperate, despair-inducing loneliness. I can not blame C for K for that. I am very clear it is my lack of emotional skill, experience, and training.
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