Arlene Kahn: Working with Individuals, Couples, Addiction/Recovery Issues
It’s a new day. There’s rain today, rain that is trying to cleanse and heal the mud and pain, the guilt and shame of white discrimination and hatred of blacks and other minorities, through the ages. I was born in Minneapolis, where George Floyd was killed on May 25, 2020. My parents and brother and I moved to California when I was 7 and I returned at 16 one summer to visit aunts and uncles, cousins. The friends they found …
Too often, there is a human tendency to focus on the good and deny the bad. Or, we can elaborate our successes and immerse ourselves in our failures. Either way, we don’t see things as they are. The reality is that everyone has good days and bad days, strengths and flaws, successes and failures. Our successes need some humility. They are rarely our own without the help and support of others. As far as our failures, Samuel Beckett, the writer …