Thinking more about yesterday's (FLocked, sorry) post, because even when it doesn't look or feel like I'm actively processing something, I apparently am - sometimes even to my own surprise ( Read more... )

Something a friend wrote earlier today sparked a thought that is the tip of a larger iceberg on the topic of the difference between feelings and thoughts (specifically, value judgments).

Also, today's Daily OM seems highly appropriate to the context: ( Read more... )

(And something I can refer to more generally than needing to have a reference book open in front of me for transcriptions ( Read more... )

The recent Slutwalk event is driving an increased public awareness of the idea of "not blaming the victim" when it comes to people subjected to unwelcome interactions scaling from undesirable interest all the way up to outright sexual attacks. I'm all in favour of wide-spread education about boundaries and the shared lexicon of what's effective and ( Read more... )

This post has been a long time in coming, the product of repeated go-rounds in my head, in my readings, in my conversations with Matthew, and in conversations with others. A year in the making, one might say, and gelling largely by force and frustration ("why can I explain this concept reasonably adroitly in verbal format, but not written format ( Read more... )

this one is for angeliquewisdom and chasewisdom, since it was going to be too long to serve as a comment in their recent posts.

tough lessons learned over many years in relationship counselling are ( behind the Cut Tag. )