MFT Solutions: Healing Relationships

Tag: meaning

  • How to Save the World

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    Carlton Brown
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    Maturana and Varela, Chilean biologists, wrote an essential book called The Tree of Knowledge. They “explain” evolution according to a simple rule that even a single-celled organism can follow: Don’t piss off the environment. We talk about climate change like it is something we caused and can therefore reverse. That may be partly true. What…

  • Fear and Flying

    Fear and Flying

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    Carlton Brown
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    I think I suffer from a form of OCD. You know what OCD is, don’t you? It’s an anxiety disorder where you seek to relieve your anxiety by performing a compulsive task. I worry about becoming irrelevant. So to deal with that anxiety, I learned to fly. Surely pilots are relevant. I became a pilot…

  • Finishing Things

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    Carlton Brown
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    My sister-in-law Karen died this year. She had had a rare form of cancer. She fought it valiantly for some time, but her body just got tired. She was married, with three adult children – two with special needs. She had a supportive husband. She worked as a neonatal nurse. We weren’t close but we…