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Personhood

What makes you a person? Is it your experience of consciousness, the type of body you have, the authorities who approve of you? Who gets to decide what constitutes personhood, anyway? These posts are about what it means to be a person.

The Joys of Being Yourselves

The Joys of Being Yourselves

My inner family and I spent last Saturday afternoon hanging out with hundreds of diverse conceptual people and their human-bodied spokesbeings. The joy I felt in that community inspired today’s newsletter: fun with grammar, including 3 easy ways you can give plural pronouns a try.

How one school district meets harm with repair

How one school district meets harm with repair

As our national life becomes more polarized, educators need new ways to respond to acts of hatred in their school communities. Leaders at Osseo Area Schools created a clear, just, and replicable process for responding to such incidents with healing and repair. Here’s how.

Guided introductions to your inner world

Guided introductions to your inner world

I use an app called Insight Timer to listen to guided meditations, including many versions of Internal Family Systems practice. If you’re ready to get to know your inner system a bit, here are some guided meditations you can use to get started, all by yourself, for free.

A family photo: two grandparents, two parents, and their two boys.

How I learned I am white

Over the past couple years, several folks have given me professional opportunities that turn out — often quite a ways into discussion — to be premised on their belief that I am a person of color. This is how a rabbi taught me to respond.

Why I’m not a centrist

Why I’m not a centrist

Back in 2017, I finally realized I had to pick a side. This is the story of how it happened.

Photo of a mother, a little child with a red teddy bear, and a healthcare worker in an exam room

On “consumership” in healthcare

The healthcare system tells people they should be good “healthcare consumers,” and they believe it. This delusion is heartbreaking. In reality, there is no such thing as a “heath care consumer.” There are only people with bodies, who love other people with bodies.