FEST Writing Group

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. .