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The Psychology Of Why People Believe Conspiracy Theories: A Compassionate Lens to Help You Understand Loved Ones You Lost Down The Rabbit Hole
This post is for anyone whose loved ones have gone down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole, taken on QAnon beliefs, gotten "woke" or "red-pilled," and you can't understand why. If you've lost a spouse, children, siblings, parents, friends, professional colleagues, or...
Fierce Compassion Takes A Stand To Protect What You Hold Sacred
After reading all of your comments all week, just so I can try to make sense of what's happening here in this community, I feel like I need to make a few distinctions about my understanding about some core spiritual teachings around compassion. First, I'm...
We All Deserve To Breathe Freely
I can't stop pondering why so many of the challenges we're facing as a culture right now revolve around the breath. COVID is a disease that threatens our breathing. West Coast wildfires right now and recent horrific fires in Australia and the Amazon are making it...
We Need To Feel To Heal
As I’m trapped in my house because the air quality where I live in the Bay Area is incompatible with life, as I’m sheltered in place for six months and gave up all summer travel because I want to be a responsible community member and don’t want to hurt anyone who...
How to Make Wise Decisions During Uncertain Times
This is a time of hard choices in uncertain times. Should you go to the hospital if you get short of breath, or should you ride it out at home? Should you let your kid endure the potential damage of remote learning, or should you let your child go to in-person school...
Germ Theory + Terrain Theory = Saving Lives
I hear a lot of people these days talking about "germ theory" and "terrain theory" in light of the pandemic. In short, germ theory focuses on infectious agents—bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites—and assumes that if you're exposed to these infectious agents, you're...