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Activists in reality
Good people do not become less good when the world is bad. Humane and compassionate people do not lose their compassion or humanity when disasters and crimes unfold around them. This is a kind of built-in fear that has been coming up lately in the clinic, in sessions with activists who are experiencing distress during this complicated time, when it seems as though the world is in moral bankruptcy, causing caring people to feel real anguish.And to all of them I explain it agai
Ruti Shalev
Dec 9, 20253 min read


Trembling under supervision
In a perfect world,there would be no need for help in order to wake up. We wouldn’t need shakings and crises in order to open our eyes, no need for pain to push us into a new place. But human beings, their story is different. Since most of the receptors in human beings are still tuned to fear, not to pleasure - our desires revolve around survival, which is always driven by fear. Here and there we feel like having good sex, or a trip to the Caribbean, or an elaborate meal. Som
Ruti Shalev
Dec 9, 20252 min read


Stand out
Apparently what they say about this age is really true. The turning inward, the clinging to simple truth,the alert filtering out of anything that lacks the flavor of honest living,the deep feeling of I don’t care what will be, that is exactly what’s happening now. And the truth is, it really is a great light. Because I too grew up inside the centrifuge that destroys the different and the other.The eternal desire to be and to do what is expected, what is accepted, what is fam
Ruti Shalev
Dec 9, 20252 min read


It's Love on the table
Let’s put love here on the table for a moment. Let’s measure it a little, weigh it,give it a sort of well-baby clinic check. Let’s feel how it waters the deep need to be loved- a need without which there is nothing. Maybe it’s already clear to you that something is missing for you.Something you feel without words.Not like the endless discussions about the trash someone didn’t take out for your the hug you didn’t receive.A deep and quiet lack. So here is a small clarifying qu
Ruti Shalev
Dec 9, 20252 min read


Back at place
The most satisfying thing in the world for me is putting things back in their place.Returning awe to the heart,and returning the roar to the throat. That’s why my great love for guiding people who rise up against toxic relationships and abusive partnerships has already brought countless such stories into my clinic. So let me tell you how it works. There are very few people in the world who simply know that what harms them is harmful enough to resist. The vast majority of huma
Ruti Shalev
Dec 9, 20252 min read
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