Posts Tagged ‘Activism’
It’s Not Your Job to Save the Whales || By Laura Zwisler, LPC
Times are tough. Pick your issue: politics, the environment, inequity, the economy. It’s hard to sleep through the night. Most of us wake at 3:00a.m. when we can’t be saved by a long To Do list, and ruminate about the state of the world. Does protesting do anything? Is backyard composting helping? Would donating money actually clean up rivers? My…
Read MoreWhere Do We Go From Here?: Moving Through Grief to Cultivate our Aliveness || By Taylor Arroganté-Reyes, LPCC
When I sat down to write this, I knew I wanted to talk about the psychological work that’s swirling around me as a therapist. More specifically, the work around me as a therapist in 2026 in the United States who works with folks at an intersection of many forms of marginalization. My fingers hovered over…
Read MoreThe Quiet Strength: On Courage in an Age of Fear || By Kevin Culver, LPCC
In the past two blog posts, I focused on the virtues of kindness and hope. In this final blog post, I want to conclude by focusing on the virtue of courage. Today, fear has become one of the dominant forces shaping our world. It is used to capture our attention, to harden our hearts, and…
Read MoreThe Fire that Spreads: On Hope in Chaotic Times || By Kevin Culver, LPCC
I want to begin this blog by sharing a quote I came across this week from a news conference in Utah: “I’m not optimistic, but I am hopeful. And hope is the virtue that sits between the vices of optimism and pessimism. Hope is the idea that good things are going to happen because we…
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