Bi-Partisan Friendships: Bridging the Divide

In a conversation I had last weekend with Roxy Manning and a group of leaders interested in bringing NVC-consciousness to diversity work at institutions of higher education locally, she used a phrase that I love: Focus on engaging, not changingFor me this translated...

Growing Shame? Do This Instead.

Last week, my compulsive “yesses” caught up with me in a major way.Stretched far too thin, I dropped the ball in a number of places:I wasn’t as present to my friends as I wanted to beMy patience was running on empty in my parentingI wasn’t able to meet deadlines that...

Undivided: Healing Splits

Over the last week, my sense of living in a nation deeply divided intensified.I’m reminded of the ever-present, low-grade fear and anxiety I felt as a young teenager living under a State of Emergency in South Africa under the rule of Apartheid.Caught between the...
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