Posts by Curt Thompson
But Your Mother Loves You
Listen here as Curt joins Kim Honeycutt on the Flip Your Lid podcast. https://www.butyourmotherlovesyou.com/podcast/e4-curt-thompson
Read MoreShredding Shame in a Pandemic
https://lauriekrieg.com/podcast/shredding-shame-in-a-pandemic-with-dr-curt-thompson/
Read MoreShame and the Soul of Racism
June 30, 2020 The news is worse than you think. And better than you can imagine. This essay is not about a virus or the disease it causes. It’s about shame and how it gives birth to racism, one of its most malignant manifestations. And it’s an invitation, perhaps even a warning for us not…
Read MoreEnneagram and Shame
What Do You Want?
May 20, 2020 “What do you want?” When you’re utterly parched, the answer to this question doesn’t take much consideration. The thirstier you get, the more laser-focused your attention becomes, drawn as it is to but one thing. Dehydration reminds us of the necessary, vitalizing role that water plays keeping us alive, a role to…
Read MoreIt’s Only a Matter of Time
May 5, 2020 _______ 1 How long, Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 2 How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and day after day have sorrow in my heart? How long will my enemy triumph over me? 3 Look on me…
Read MoreBeauty Will Save the World
April 28, 2020 ________ In all that awakens within us the pure and authentic sentiment of beauty, there is, truly, the presence of God. There is a kind of incarnation of God in the world, of which beauty is the sign. –Simone Weil ________ Anxiety. Anger. Fatigue. Grief. And now, we even sense our and others’…
Read MoreInflammation of the Heart
April 21, 2020 We’re sick of it. Just sick of it. And sick would be the proper word. A word that points to so much of what we are feeling in response to COVID-19, so much of what is contained, ultimately in the process that we are each undergoing in our own way. And that…
Read MoreA Body of Work
April 15, 2020 A Body of Work By now, most of us have noticed. And either we or someone we know is talking about it. Zoom fatigue. Irritability. No fever, cough or body aches necessary. Just the normal, run-of-the-mill symptoms of social distancing. And mostly, people are describing how much more exhausted they are at…
Read MoreLove and Lament in March Madness
March 24, 2020 I will alert you now: This post is more like a short essay, as its length attests. But I hope you will read it in its entirety. I’m guessing you might have more time on your hands these days, although perhaps not if you are now homeschooling your children when two weeks…
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