FEST Writing Group

I often have thought of public communications, particularly journalistic communications, as akin to the weather. It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s windy or snowy. For those of us who aren’t meteorologists or addicted to the Weather Channel, we simply adjust to the conditions and move on. Unless the rain ruins a beach day or the winds.

Reflections In an era of societal polarization how can I understand the power of the emotional system to manipulate me? One way: take time to think and write about an emotional event. That is my purpose here. What are the emotional triggers preventing me from acting with greater emotional maturity and living more optimally? When am I.

I have been trying to think about our current president in a more objective way. It is very challenging with all the emotional triggers presented on a daily basis. We are two weeks into a new administration and the tension in the country and even the world appears to be rising at a rapid pace. At.

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy, is, by any measure, functionally successful. A Marine who served in Iraq, graduate of Ohio State, graduate of Yale Law School, and an editor on the Yale Law Journal. Yet, his nuclear family of origin and extended family are low in level of differentiation. Not the.

Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass--this is a short piece I submitted recently to an online encyclopedia on family theory and therapy and submitting it here for any feedback, would like to develop it further.  I enjoyed thinking about this early term. The undifferentiated family ego mass was an early term that Murray Bowen used to describe his.