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What I Love About My New Home in the Southwest by Lauren Hamilton

Posted October 19th, 2015 by Donna Harrington & filed under Student & Alumni Stories.

It has officially been two months since I made Santa Fe my home, and the beauty I have been discovering over these past 60 days has been absolutely unreal. Moving here from Colorado, I was a little worried coming to a place that at first thought invokes mental images of cacti and dusty desert plains.…
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Reduce Shame, Enhance Love: Reflections on Self-Love and the Journey to Find It

Posted October 12th, 2015 by Donna Harrington & filed under Consciousness & Mindfulness, Student & Alumni Stories.

It was during my second week at Southwestern College, the second meeting of Tuesday’s Psychology of Altruism class, that Ann Filemyr presented us with this lesson: “reduce shame, enhance love.” We talked about feelings of shame and the aching, overwhelming presence it can have in our daily lives. Shame that can continually haunt us whether…
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