What Keeps Emotional Pain Alive: Avoidance and Meaning-Making
June 19, 2025 4:05 pm Leave your thoughtsWe all carry pain that runs deeper than words—pain from moments too overwhelming to process when they first occurred. Often, this pain ... More
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Author Archives for Jan-Willem Dikkers
Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Collapse: Why Opting Out Isn’t Enough
June 6, 2025 6:30 am Leave your thoughtsThere is no longer any real doubt that artificial intelligence is transforming our world—but the speed and scale of its environmental toll ... More
Why Blaming Parents Is Sometimes the First Step Toward Healing
June 4, 2025 11:43 am Leave your thoughtsThere is a moment in many people’s lives—often in therapy, often after years of inner struggle—when they begin to see that the ... More
Navigating a World in Crisis: A Spiritual Perspective on Chaos, Power, and Hope
May 2, 2025 11:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe world today appears to be unraveling in ways that challenge even the most resilient. Many are witnessing the dismantling of institutions ... More
Wangari Mathenge
August 5, 2020 10:37 pm Leave your thoughtsKenyan-born artist Wangari Mathenge’s new body of work draws inspiration from “The Danger of a Single Story,” a 2009 Ted Talk delivered ... More
James Sweeney
July 12, 2020 8:59 pm Leave your thoughtsOriginally from Sacramento, CA, James Sweeney recently starred, directed, and wrote his debut film, Straight Up (2019), a hilarious rom-com that blends ... More
Straight Up
March 6, 2020 9:42 pm Leave your thoughtsTodd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive-compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be ... More
Jen Richards
December 16, 2019 6:33 pm Leave your thoughtsJen Richards burst onto the entertainment scene when she received a Primetime Emmy Nomination for Her Story, a series she created, wrote ... More
Chris Galust
December 10, 2019 2:32 am Leave your thoughtsDiscovered by a casting director while buying a cake for his Russian grandfather, former electrician Chris Galust found himself in his first ... More
Jesca Hoop
November 1, 2019 11:05 pm Leave your thoughtsCalifornia born, England-based musician Jesca Hoop initially emerged as a protege of Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits—Waits once described Hoop’s music as ... More