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Some musings on what Søren Kierkegaard once said: "Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived looking forward."
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/life-lessons/2023/05/looking-backward
A salve for the soul.
If you want to see a powerful, challenging, moving, and entertaining play that has relevance for the past and the current state of the world, I cannot recommend enough “Forgiveness” that is currently playing at the Stratford Festival.
Both my partner and I were moved by this occasionally difficult but emotionally satisfying Canadian production, and we both said it may well be the best play we’ve ever seen.
#stratfordfestival #forgiveness
https://www.stratfordfestival.ca/WhatsOn/PlaysAndEvents/Production/Forgiveness
June 27th, 2025 Webinar - "Global Forgiveness" with David Thornton
David Thornton, a Licensed #Clinical #Pastoral #Therapist, invites you to an in-depth #webinar exploring the complexities of #forgiveness for those affected by complex #PTSD and #spiritual abuse.
Drawing from diverse sources -- including #Christian, #12Step, # Jewish, #mystical, #Buddhist, #meditative, and #shamanic traditions--David will present an integrated approach to understanding forgiveness. This work is not about simple answers. Instead, it provides a framework to recognize where a client is in their process and how different traditions may offer unique, healing insights.
Participants will explore the developmental stages of forgiveness work, learn how to assess when someone may not be ready for change, and engage ethical questions about how we show up as helpers. This session also encourages attendees to reflect on their own spiritual paths to better understand and support those they serve.
Learning objectives include:
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Understanding how different faith traditions support healing and forgiveness.
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Recognizing moments of crisis as possible gateways to transformation.
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Gaining strategic awareness about readiness for change--both in self and others.
Event details:
* June 27, 2025
* 3:00 PM -- 4:30 PM EDT
* Online
* ACPE Members: Free | Non-members: $35
* CE Credit: 1.5 hours available
More at http://bit.ly/3HQpa2U
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The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may be done by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health practitioner. We offer training.
Learn more at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org . Blog at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org/news .
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#Forgiveness isn’t always about letting go -- it can also be about learning to carry our burdens differently. In the June 27 webinar “Global Forgiveness,” David Thornton presents a multi-traditional approach to #healing #trauma and #spiritual wounds.
When clients are dealing with the aftermath of spiritual #abuse or chronic #trauma, a one-size-fits-all solution rarely works. David offers insight into how various spiritual systems -- #Christian, #12Step, #Buddhist, #mystical, and more -- can help practitioners and clients access deeper healing. He will also help attendees understand when an alternative path might be more appropriate and liberating for someone struggling with forgiveness.
This webinar includes discussion of:
• The emotional and spiritual dynamics that block forgiveness.
• The therapeutic potential found in spiritual crises.
• Ethical practices for supporting clients across diverse traditions.
It’s also a personal invitation for clinicians to reflect on their own spiritual fluency and how it informs their therapeutic relationships.
1.5 CE credits available for eligible participants in social work and mental health fields. Join us for a thoughtful conversation on the role of spirituality in trauma recovery.
More at http://bit.ly/3HQpa2U
The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may be done by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health practitioner. We offer training. Learn more at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org . Blog at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org/news .
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#Forgiveness is often a complex, challenging journey, especially for those dealing with complex #PTSD and layers of #spiritual abuse. In his upcoming webinar on June 27, David Thornton will offer deep insights into this intricate process by blending #Christian, #12step, #Jewish, #mystical, #Buddhist, #meditative, and #shamanic paths. David will explore the developmental stages of forgiveness, including recognizing when alternative approaches may be needed for true liberation.
One of the key topics in the #webinar will be understanding the barriers to forgiveness and #healing. David will help participants recognize the dynamics that can block the process, and explore how multiple faith traditions can be used to guide people toward greater healing. The ethical dimensions of forgiveness will also be discussed, inviting practitioners to reflect on their own paths and develop a fluency in other traditions, enabling them to meet clients where they are in their own healing process.
This event is an opportunity to understand the power of faith-based approaches in healing trauma and the sensitivity required when guiding others through their personal journeys.
Learning Objectives include:
1. Assessing the dynamics that can block the process of healing and forgiveness, and how various faith traditions can aid in this work.
2. Understanding how life's disappointments, difficulties, and disasters can open individuals to new perspectives and self-understanding.
3. Developing awareness about the right timing for change, both for you and your clients.
Continuing Education Credits: 1.5 credit hours are available for social work and mental health professionals.
Join us online for this transformative webinar on June 27. Whether you're a mental health practitioner or simply interested in the integration of spirituality into healing, this session offers valuable perspectives.
More at http://bit.ly/3HQpa2U
The #ACPE #Psychotherapy Commission is a community invested in the practice of integrating #spirituality into our work. This work may be done by a volunteer helper, a #spiritual #healer, or a licensed mental health practitioner. We offer training. Learn more at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org .
Blog at https://sip-com.wildapricot.org/news .
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:55PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: The End of Euphememory
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
stuffed like dolls like taxidermied heads like blackmailers’ file drawers with fascial paper crinkled with jugular ink a rubbermaid bin of journals ticks like an impatient bomb waiting to obliterate comfortable euphememories stripping airy cottonwool padding to reveal bare splintered ends of forgotten truth
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:42PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: Thanks Giving
URL: https://livedammit.com/thanks-giving/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thanks-giving
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
A bow to you, my friends of fur and feathers you bearers of witness to sentience in the four-legged winged scaled and creepy-crawling beings, the wielders of forks not knives, you advocates of kindness simplicity and walking lightly on the earth: a bow to you. And I bow also to the great green nation that […]
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:29PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: raw
URL: https://livedammit.com/raw/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=raw
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
if the news were a movie and i a child watching i’d be asking mommy can we go home now? i don’t want to watch any more …but it’s not… i go outside, feed the feral cats wonder how much cesium tellurium iodine they are absorbing in the soft spring rain how much are cats […]
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 11:08PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: Fox Medicine
URL: https://livedammit.com/fox-medicine/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fox-medicine
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
sister fox fleeing through forestland (it’s All so vast over- whelming roots branches sweeping ground touching sky) preying upon/preyed upon small thing furbearing pheromone bearing bundle of fourfooted money on the movenever knowing profit is more important than Truth more important than Freedom more important than running Wild touching Sacred Earth Sacred Water Sacred Wood […]
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:56PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: Coupling
URL: https://livedammit.com/coupling/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coupling
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
“…whether it is husband and wife coupling in their love and birthing a child; whether it is a widow coupling with the memory of a deceased husband; all love is born of the conflict that dialectical consciousness acknowledges.” –Matthew Fox, Original Blessing It wasn’t supposed to happen like that. You’d flame out like the Challenger […]
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:53PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: A Cappella
URL: https://livedammit.com/a-cappella/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-cappella
TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
I wrote this at the end of my son’s senior year of college, five months after my husband’s passing. Towering foursquare blocks of lectures and learning climb against the night sky echoing a year’s last songs of laughter, youth swaying in grass skirts, leis, paper bras strung on rippled chests, four years fresh and launching […]
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DATE: June 15, 2025 at 10:50PM
SOURCE: LIVE, DAMMIT BLOG
TITLE: Dark Silence
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TRIGGER WARNING: Blog may contain sometimes difficult descriptions of survivor stories.
dark silence desires no words strikes the hand weak mouth dumb that frame them dark silence like smoke flees the hands grasping for it blurs the eyes clouds the mind straining to pierce it dark silence alone consumes itself in unending withdrawal unending fear of the silent dawning Light
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"These questions, combined with a murder that tore into my own family, inspired me, several years ago, to volunteer to witness an execution—one of 13 carried out at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, during the final six months of Donald Trump’s first term." —Elizabeth Bruenig for The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/death-row-executions-witness/682891/
We need a #culture of #love, #kindness, #compassion, #inclusion, #forgiveness, #justice, #patience, #empathy, #forbearance.
I know no stronger alternative.
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
-- Emo Philips
#Wisdom #Quotes #EmoPhilips #Forgiveness #God #Religion
#Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." - #MarkTwain
I want to make counselors aware of a resource for survivors of many types -- mental health, trauma, and more.
LIVE, Dammit (Previously Survivors' Haven): https://livedammit.com/
"A mental health support site with stories, tools, a free e-course, bookstore & inspiring wearables—for stubborn souls doing the work to stay here, stay human, & stay strong."
The website allows survivors to share stories of struggle and endurance, features in-depth articles and interviews, uplifting quotes, links to outside resources, and more.
They are also on Bluesky at:
https://bsky.app/profile/livedammit.bsky.social
I have added them to my Mastodon Psych Bot news feed at:
https://mastodon.clinicians-exchange.org/@psychbot
Thanks,
Michael
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Michael Reeder LCPC
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