Name: BLOG TALK Healing Step Five: Represent by Sankofa Counseling, LLC
Duration: 7 min 22 s
Description: In Step 1, we gathered good information. In Step 2, we re-humanized the other in our minds. In Step 3 we listened empathically. In Step 4 we learned to relate with greater transparency and intimacy. Now in Step 5, let's recreate the landscape of the relationship to better honor both parties.

In celebration of Black History I want to offer both profound appreciation, and profound apology. We can move forward better.

Black History 2023

Last week I talked about where Narcissism comes from. This week, let's look at the Narcissism that underlies "Colonizer Think" and how we can heal from it.

BLOG TALK: Our National Narcissism

Life is full of curveballs. Here's a way to use them well!

BLOG TALK Curveballs

Are the numbers by which you measure yourself valid? If it's your weight, size or BMI... probably not.

BLOG TALK: Numbers Numbers Numbers

We, the Feral Alliance, (also known as Generation X,) are extremely adaptable. That's not always a good thing. Here is some generational wisdom born out of our generational pain.

BLOG TALK: The UNDrowning of Generation X

In Step 1, we gathered good information. In Step 2, we re-humanized the other in our minds. In Step 3 we listened empathically. In Step 4 we learned to relate with greater transparency and intimacy. Now in Step 5, let's recreate the landscape of the relationship to better honor both parties.

BLOG TALK Healing Step Five: Represent

Mahk Jchi is a powerful song written by the Native American women's group Ulali. The song is in a compilation of Tutelo and Saponi languages, now extinct dialects of the Sioux nation from the Ohio Valley. There is a commonly mistaken translation of this song widely circulated on the internet but the translation below has been confirmed by the artist. This song takes some investment in learning and is more complex for choral learning, but very do-able by oral-tradition and wonderfully worth it.

Mahk Jchi by Ulali

I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in Maryland with more than a quarter century of experience helping people unbox their lives from trauma, anxiety, relationship tangles, and coping with the neurobland, overboxed world.

BLOG TALK Healing Step Five: Represent

Sankofa Counseling, LLC

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