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Spiritual Abuse
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Recently I sat with a client in my practice who shared that she grew up in a fundamentalist church in which she was told that suffering was the way to experience God. Her life experience included physical and sexual abuse. Her child-mind internalized that God and pain were intertwined and now in her 50’s, she…
Initiation Into Trust
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
My friend Kai Karrel came into my life in the past five or six years as a teacher of spiritual ideology that he puts into direct practice. He refers to himself as a “writer, a poet, a mystic and a spiritual adventurer.” He is a divinely human and humanly divine soul brother. Kai spent years in…
ASAP-Always Say A Prayer
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
“If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.”-Meister Eckhart What is prayer? Some might say that it is asking an outside male entity for a specific outcome as various faith traditions teach and preach. Others could express it as a certainty that all is well, regardless…
Last Night I Said Kaddish For My Father
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I said Kaddish for my father last night as today honors the 8th anniversary of his passing. Hard to imagine that he has been off the planet that long. I remember the day like it was yesterday. I was driving on a major highway and got the call that I needed to hightail it…
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