Posts published by “Kit Balane”

Self-care

For a helping profession like mine, it is so easy to get burned out. Dealing with other people’s problems day…

Porn and our children

I do not know with you, but the word alone elicits a smorgasbord of images and emotions, especially to those…

Meditate

Now, and everytime, it is important for us to meditate. For many of us, meditation may come across as esoteric,…

Life is short, find it

Indeed, life is short.  When we hear of young people dying, it mostly comes as a shock, a frantic surprise.…

Collective trauma

How do you think the world will be like after this pandemic? Closer to home, what will we become as…

Grief and grieving

Yesterday, I was invited to do grief processing with the BOHECO linemen in Tubigon whose two comrades met their untimely…

Amygdala hijack

As if the pandemic is not enough to mar our anticipation of Christmas, we were jolted to see on social…

A different Christmas

Many say that Christmas is different this year. And truly so, especially when we only associate Christmas with merry making. …

Toxic positivity

I really do not know the term until I gave a webinar one time and someone asked me what I…

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