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The Inner Wisdom of (Romantic) Love
By
Jana Melpolder
We are for the most part failures at the thing we crave most-love and intimacy. If you’re married like I am, you are reminded of this fact almost daily. You find yourself locked daily in a battle with someone who reminds you that, despite all your education and savvy , you don’t have a clue…
The Inner Wisdom of Sleep
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Jana Melpolder
For two winters I watered and fertilized the plants in my house, expecting them to perform in the winter months as they did in the summer months. I kept wondering why they drooped and turned brown instead of bursting with color and texture. It never dawned on me that just as I cut back on…
The Inner Wisdom of Change
By
Jana Melpolder
For years I kept on my desk the photograph of a young black girl dressed in 1950’s attire, head up, back straight, shades on her face, walking resolutely through a crowd of angry faces. Why is she is the only one wearing shades in the picture? The date below the photograph explains everything: September 4,…
The Inner Wisdom of Tears
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Jana Melpolder
Ours is a world, as one writer has pointed out, where grief is treason, a failure of nerve, a flaw in leadership. Men grow up believing that real men do not cry. Women are permitted tears and public displays of emotions if they are grieving mothers, but not if they are CEOs explaining to their…
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