Difficulty in saying No - Gabor Maté's Wisdom of Trauma

Here is a useful self-help exercise about saying No. It is from Gabor Maté's Wisdom of Trauma webinars on Zoom in Oct 2021 at www.scienceandnonduality.com. 

I wrote this up from his words of wisdom. It a six-part exercise that you can do if you have trouble saying No. (And it's not self-accusation, it's self-inquiry.)

1. When in your life is it difficult to say No? (When is there a No that wants to be said but you don't say it?)

Winter Solstice - the intimacy of darkness, silence and stillness

Sometimes we just need to stop, feel and rest. Just like nature does at this time of the year, when the land becomes dormant, the trees naked, and the birds quiet. Deep underneath, the soil gets ready for new growth.

Hay Festival - Rutger Bregman

Tuned in today to "Hay Festival - Rutger Bregman - chaired by Lily Cole - Humankind: A Hopeful History"

porridge

Porridge for 2
6 tbs oats
3 glasses of milk/water (=18 tbs liquid because the liquid:oats ratio is 3:1)
1 tbs dessicated coconut
1 tbs sultanas
1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp ground mixed spice

cancer treatment

Various cancer treatment resources ...

Nathan Robinson on Jordan Peterson

Recommended reading by Chomsky: The Intellectual We Deserve in Current Affairs by Nathan J. Robinson.

Derrick Jensen on transgender

Derrick Jensen is one of my favourite radical environmentalists and I am glad to find that, in the transgender controversy, he is on the side of women who disagree that biological males who identify as “transgender” are women. Here is a link to a response by Derrick Jensen to a feature by John Stoltenberg on Andrea Dworkin (response and feature both from 2015): genderdetective.wordpress.com/category/queer-theory