healing
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On hostage situations and jail.
Two perspectives on policing.
abolish police, abolition, abolitionism, corrections, defund, defund police, defund the police, Department of Corrections, end incarceration, ending incarceration, healing, hostage, hostage negotiation, hostage situation, incarceration, jail classes, jail drill, jail poetry, jail poetry class, mass incarceration, pepper spray, police, policing, prison abolition, prison abolitionism, prison drill, PTSD, SWAT, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, trauma
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On neural plasticity.
What would it take to convince yourself that you are worthy of love?
addiction, biofeedback, brain development, brain growth, CBT, chemical dependence, cocaine, cognitive behavioral therapy, counseling, criminal justice, day by day, depression, dopamine, dopamine receptor levels, dopamine receptors, drug addiction, drug counseling, drug use, e-meter, free will, getting over addiction, happiness, healing, incarceration, jail, lie detector test, mass incarceration, mental health, methamphetamine, mind control, neural development, neural plasticity, plasticity, poetry, poetry class, polygraph, redemption, rehab, rehabilitation, reshaping thought, Scientology, sobriety, substance abuse, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, therapy
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On prayer.
Czeslaw Milosz wrote that “if there is no other shore / We will walk that aerial bridge all the same.”
AA, addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, Aphrodite, Czeslaw Milosz, deities, God, healing, higher power, impulse control, jail, jail poetry, mythology, myths, naloxone, Narcan, odinism, On Prayer, opiates, opiod epidemic, poetry, prayer, prison, recovery, rehab, rehabilitation, Robert Hass, teaching in jail, Thor, TMS, transcranial magnetic stimulation
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On horror, healing, and Joanna Connors’s ‘I Will Find You.’
In a courageous effort to heal, an investigative reporter uncovers the long history of violence behind her own trauma.
American Salvage, Bonnie Jo Campbell, forgiveness, healing, hurt people hurt people, I Will Find You, inequality starts before birth, investigative journalism, Joanna Connors, lost innocence, meth, methamphetamine, nature versus nurture, preemptive punishment, PTSD, racial disparities in the criminal justice system, rape, rape prosecution, sexual assault, The Trespasser, vengeance
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On redemption and Christianity in The Book of Strange New Things.
So, I read a couple reviews that didn’t like Michel Faber’s The Book of Strange New Things. The problem was, in the reviewers’ eyes, that the novel as science fiction was bland (e.g. this piece from NPR). And I’ll admit, I wasn’t having fun for most of the time I spent reading it. But at…
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