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When self is embedded in others, our problem seems to be without.  But is within. • a son’s new wife doesn’t want to visit • a mother refuses to accept her dementia • a spouse won’t move with us to Hawaii The problem is not our Self but its embeddedness. • a child gets cancer • a president we revile • social.

I have been fascinated with the book and the PBS documentary, both titled: The Serengeti Rules. Molecular biologist, scientist writer, and gifted story-teller Sean B.Carroll, proposes that complex biological systems are regulated by rules. The first hundred pages cover a century or more of science in physiology, genetics, and neuroscience to discern the rules.

  Chapter One:  Butch, Mother Nature and the automatic way the family anxiety is handled.   One coolish day in April of 1974, my brother comes over to my house. Jumping out of his old, blue, surfing van, he excitedly told me his very good news.   “I have become Jesus.”   Yes, Butch at thirty-three has come to heal us all.   Although.

In my opinion, one of Bowen’s most important contributions was the concept of automatic emotional reactions.  My first coach instructed our supervision group to start our attempts to improve our level of differentiation by trying to observe our own automatic emotional reacting.  It seemed to me too simple.  I was wrong. .

NPR reports CO2 levels are the highest in 4 million years as of May 2021 (NPR.org).  Probably not true, after all  it is NPR. I like the world according to Fox. The amount of CO2 in the atmosphere has reached 419 parts per million notes the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It actually dipped to 417.

“Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong.  They are conflicts between two rights”.  George Wilhelm Fiedrich Hegel On the radio recently, and in the same vein, I heard one of the official negotiators from one of the Israeli Palestinian peace efforts put it this way -- the conflict between Israel and.

Background: My younger sister, Suzanne, has two daughters. Hannah, the oldest, has been the one most focused on, and the one Suzanne has the most intense reactions to.  Emily, 30, and Suzanne take daily walks together and have an easy supportive relationship.  Emily works full time as a physical therapist.  Hannah is in graduate school.  Though.

June 1^st  2021.  (If you would like to see the photos please let me know and I will send you a copy with photos)   Introduction:     From the focus on the  individual to learning about the family as a system 1-5 Prologue: An overview: The many ways I learned from Murray Bowen, MD  6-8 -   Chapter One:     Before Bowen:.

Learning Bowen Theory My first acquaintance with the thinking of Murray Bowen was through reading “On the Differentiation of Self,” the paper in which Dr. Bowen presents his theory and describes how it guided his effort toward differentiation of self in his own family. In my first couple of readings, I understood little of the.

Musings on the Multigenerational Family as an Emotional Field of Consciousness Erik Thompson May 21, 2021 Have you ever experienced mysterious connectivity among the ancestral multi-generational family? Decades ago, I called my father for our unplanned, random, somewhat monthly chat.  As the connection became audible on my end, I heard him talking to someone on his end, and then.