New Year's Eve 2020 - The Alarm is Ringing

Every New Year’s Eve, I do a ritual of review before setting my intentions for the new cycle. I am spending some quiet time reviewing the past year’s challenges, lessons and accomplishments. The most powerful learning is: I am here, I have survived, I am loving, I care.

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Meredith Lawida
The Current Reality

In late November 1943, as World War II raged in Europe and the Pacific, leaders of the ‘Big Three’ allied nations-- the United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union, held a key strategy meeting in Tehran.

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Meredith Lawida
I Can't Breathe

There is COVID-19 and it’s effects and yet what makes it neither admissible, nor tolerable is the RACIAL PANDEMIC that has lasted in this country for centuries.

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Meredith Lawida
The Rise of Anti-semitism in 2020

Within living memory of the Holocaust, after which the world said it would never happen again, antisemitism has returned. But what is antisemitism and why should its return be cause for grave concern, not only for Jews, but for all of us?

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Meredith Lawida
On Smaller and Larger Communities

This mess the world finds itself isn’t the fault of the politicians. They are people who have taken the position to do the same all from a position of power and self advantage, only. We have collectively allowed ourselves to get to this point.

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Meredith Lawida
Integral Transpersonal Psychiatry

Integral Transpersonal Psychiatry allows for a humanistic, transcendent and holistic view of people. The basis of the theory is seeing patients not just in terms of their symptoms or dysfunctional aspects, but instead in terms of their potential and internal resources that they do not even are aware that they possess.

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Meredith Lawida
A Time of Spiritual Hunger

We live in a time of great spiritual hunger, but within each of us is a means of ending this famine. People around the world are beginning to sense the presence of a seed inside them. This seed has long been ignored by psychology, sociology, and the medical profession.

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Meredith Lawida