Posts in Personal Development
Table for One? You’re Not Alone.
This is the Story of Grief
Culture, Mythology, Spirituality, Personal DevelopmentM. Carolyn Millergrief, dsm, soul, American Psychiatric Association, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders, New York Times, Fey, Sarah Fey, Pathological: The True Story of Six Misdiagnoses, Poets & Writers, mental health, pathology, mythology, personal mythology
Choose Your Travel Game
Culture, Mythology, Spirituality, Business/Marketing, Personal DevelopmentM. Carolyn Millertravel, game, travel trends, Northstar Research Partners, Expedia, environment, flying, greenhouse gases, International Council on Clean Transportation, shame, The Broken Ladder, Keith Payne, inequality, story
Is Your Life Part of a Bait-and-Switch Game?
Culture, Personal Development, Business/MarketingM. Carolyn Millergames, gamification, revisionist history, Pang, Amelia Pang, Cantu, Francisco Cantu, Lorr, Benjamin Lorr, story, social story, Virginia Woolf, Woolf, bait-and-switch
What Personal Myth Sits in Your Body? Here’s a Clue.
Mythology, Personal Development, SpiritualityLori LaBissoniere O'Neilpersonal myth, mythology, personal mythology, body, body story, Robert Atkinson, The Gift of Stories, red, colon, colon issues, American Music, Mendelsohn, Jane Mendelsohn
Try EMDR to Unstick Stubborn Stories
Personal DevelopmentLori LaBissoniere O'NeilEMDR, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, flight or flight, trauma, EFT, Emotional Freedom Technique, tapping, storyline, story, NIH, National Institutes of Health, Lipton, Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief, belief system, belief, unhealthy patterns
How Childhood Trauma Becomes Art
Mythology, Personal DevelopmentLori LaBissoniere O'NeilStill, Clyfford Still, childhood trauma, trauma, story, re-story, life's work, art, expressionist art, pathology, mythology, victim, hero
Feeling the Weight of Compassion Fatigue? There’s An Antidote.
Personal DevelopmentM. Carolyn Millercompassion fatigue, trauma, Figley, coronavirus, caregivers, caregiver burnout, Stamm, Beth Hudnall Stamm, Covid, Charles R. Figley
The Church of Patriarchy is Falling Down
Culture, Personal Development, SpiritualityM. Carolyn MillerCatholic Church, confession, confessional, patriarchy, Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, guilt, Freud, Robert C. Fuller, Fuller, Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality, therapy, feminist theory, prehistory, James Carroll, The Truth at the Heart of the Lie, Boston Globe, Jesus, narrative
Your Calling May Be Hidden in Plain Sight
What’s Your Role in the Grand Narrative: Sinner or Magical Being?
Culture, Personal DevelopmentM Carolyn Millergrand narrative, Alan Parry, Robert E. Doan, narrative therapy, Story Re-visions, Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade, patriarchy, yin, yang, dominator, partnership, feminist theory, matriarchy, fiction, story
Here’s the Real Story on "Happily Ever After"
Personal Development, Mythology, CultureM Carolyn MillerCinderella, mythology, happily ever after, personal myth, cultural myth, dating, Hallmark, women's history, women's psychological development, women, spirituality
A New Mythology is Emerging. Here’s Your Role.
Culture, Personal DevelopmentM. Carolyn Millerhero, mythology, mythic quest, collective mythic quest, competing narratives, Riane Eisler, Karen Armstrong, patriarchy, The Chalice and the Blade, A Short History of Myth, narrative
The Myth of Aging
Can You Break the Class Ceiling?
The Fractal Nature of Story
The Neurochemistry of Story
Is a Broken System Breaking You?
Are Culture’s Claws in Your Story?
Culture, Personal DevelopmentM. Carolyn Millerbelief system, cultural transformation, David Epston, game, gamification, Michael White, Michel Foucault, narrative therapy, personal mythology, social change, society, story
