Difficult conversations
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the Restorative Way

By: Will Bledsoe, Ph.D. (2021)

While the fight over the pandemic, vaccines, and mandates rages on (and I use both terms deliberately), there is one nonnegotiable issue that needs to be addressed – regardless of which 'side of the mask' we're on. 

That issue is the diminishing mental and emotional health that people are experiencing right now as a result of the pandemic.

The mental and emotional traumatic stress the pandemic has caused for many is real. And now, with the looming threat of the latest variant emerging (Omicron), the existential fears are being compounded. ...

How in the world are we ever going to work through the polarization and extreme divisiveness that is ripping our nation, communities and families apart? Radically different perspectives about the elections, the pandemic, racial injustice, immigration, the environment, the economy, and health care continue to fuel a type of social civil war rife with animosity, hatred, and violence. The echo chambers of social media only amplify what we think we know to be true.

How are we ever going to reconcile our differences and unite as a country? Is there a way to understand what is really going on...