Resources


Empathy and Inner Joy

Michael recommends these reads:

  • Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

  • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by His Holiness The Dalia Lama and Howard C. Cutler, M.D.


 

https://www.ambiguousloss.com

Everyone experiences ambiguous loss if only from breaking up with someone, or having aging parents or kids leaving home. As we learn from the people who must cope with the more catastrophic situations of ambiguous loss, we learn how to tolerate the ambiguity in our more common losses in everyday life.


 

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1522584578950668288?s=20&t=jCk73YDkh6UOzVRCFXB9kQ

A thread about how privilege shapes individual response to threats - with denial among the privileged impacting the less privileged. I think perhaps how you respond to threats around you has a lot to do with your life experience, sense of security & appetite for reality