Blogging with Carrie Kenner
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Teaching Hate is Child Abuse
How Children Learn to Hate Long before learning their ABCs, 1+1=2, and “Share your toys,” children learn how to be a human from the people around them. If we’re not careful – or worse, if it’s intentional – children also learn to hate. So let’s call teaching hate what it is: child abuse. A couple…
Human and Business Systems: The Beauty and Brutality
I love human and business systems. I’m not super proud of this fact but it’s my reality. Systems are a collection of activities, procedures, and ways of doing things repeatedly that form a pattern that is predictable and makes things easier. At least for some people. This leads to why I’m not proud of the…
A No-Squirm Way to Meditate
I’ve been meditating for 60 days straight. It all began a few months ago when it started getting light earlier in the morning. I noticed how beautiful my bedroom looked in the morning light and realized I hardly spent any time there except getting ready for bed, getting dressed in the morning, and sleeping in…
The Felt Sense of Doula Work
I am a copywriter for a continuing education platform for psychotherapists. In my role, I meet many expert therapists who are offering courses and I learn about their work. So far, I’ve learned about: How I Learned About Felt Sense A few weeks ago, I was interviewing one of the experts about a course she…
Growing A Business: My Journey into the Heart of Entrepreneurship
Welcome April! A new month means it’s time for a new theme. Leading into the year, the theme was all about the nature of human beings: families, our brains, decision-making, and where our passions and inspiration come from. February, I explored how we want to be heard and seen, which led into March, which was…
Setting Goals by Writing Your Own WHAT?!?!
Goal Setting In last week’s vlog, I wrote about mission statements. One of the things about a mission statement is it doesn’t include goals. A mission statement should not be specific, measurable, or time-bound. Its point is to be lofty and paint a picture of what you are working toward. But this week, I am…
A Mission Statement That Actually Means Something
Mission Done Right If you’ve ever worked in a business, you’ve probably been involved in or heard about a mission statement. Often, mission statements are incredibly boring, confusing, and pretty much pointless. If a mission statement doesn’t instantly guide the actions of the people within the business, it’s not done correctly. I want to tell…
Getting Started and Finding My Voice
This is my journey of finding my voice in a society that silences women, starting with my mother’s subtle but unsuccessful rebellion. How do you bring an idea to life if your passions are silenced? Dedicated to my mom. My mom was born in 1929, when women weren’t known for having their voices heard.…
Neuroplasticity: Our Brains Are Like Clay
It turns out I have a lot to say about families… And it appears that you – my audience – like to hear what I have to say about them as well. I received so many comments after my last blog about your own families of origin, their impact (good and not-so-good) on who you…
Families: The Training Ground for Small Humans
Note: The author is well aware of the range of dysfunction within families. This blog post intends to focus only on the phenomenon of families as “first teachers,” not on the content – supportive or destructive – that is being taught to children. The reader can extrapolate the profound impact of both helpful behaviors and…
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