mental-health
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Over the past several years, we have learned painful truths about the criminal sex-trafficking operation run by Jeffrey Epstein and facilitated by Ghislaine Maxwell. Their prosecution established that minors were recruited, groomed, and exploited. Survivors have testified under oath. Some still struggle to speak about it decades later. This was not rumor. It was a…
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Fear has always been one of the most effective tools of social control. When fear is paired with hierarchy, it becomes more than an emotion — it becomes an organizing principle. Patriarchal systems, whether political, religious, or cultural, endure not because they are strong, but because they promise safety in an uncertain world. That promise, however, is…
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This morning, while watching a discussion about cognitive health and leadership, I encountered a term I had never before seen — frontotemporal dementia (FTD). That encounter prompted me to delve deeper and re-examine something many of us feel in our bones but have struggled to articulate: What happens when those in positions of greatest national authority show changes…
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Some chapters of history are so painful that nations try to forget them. MKUltra is one of those chapters. Between the 1950s and early 1970s, the United States government secretly funded and conducted experiments on human beings — including children — without their informed consent. People were drugged, psychologically manipulated, isolated, and treated not as…
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One of the loudest arguments in modern political life is that compassion and responsibility are somehow opposites — that if we help people too much, we weaken their character, create dependency, and erode the moral fabric of society. I do not believe this is true. In fact, I believe it gets the sequence backwards. Responsibility…
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Why Oneness Doesn’t Mean Sameness In its deeper sense, oneness doesn’t mean everyone thinking the same way, acting the same way, or being flattened into a group identity. That version of “unity” is coercive—and rightly resisted. What spiritual traditions tend to mean by oneness is something quieter and more human: In that way, oneness is…
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Three voices crossed my path recently . . . One was Governor Gavin Newsom, calling us to resist the dismantling of our democracy and to not sit idly by while authoritarianism takes root. His words stirred my heart—I felt appreciation for his courage and agreement with his warning. Another was Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, dismantling the…
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I had a dream recently—one that echoed with both sorrow and hope. In it, I calmly told my ex-husband that when he drank to excess, I felt unsafe. To my surprise, he smiled gently, stopped the behavior, and promised to quit. Then we kissed—not in some romantic resurgence, but as though we were young again,…
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Supporting Our Children, Our Young Men, and Ourselves In every corner of our nation — in big cities and small towns alike — there are children who carry invisible wounds. Some are hurt by poverty and neglect. Some by exploitation and unspeakable abuse. Some by growing up in communities where no one has the time…
The Liberty and Prosperity Plan 