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Michele Toomey, PhD
A Bit About Me
Michele Toomey and the Evolution of Liberation Psychology
How Liberation Psychology Became My Theology
Consultations and Presentations
To All Senior Citizens : Take Your Power by Learning To Use the Power of Words
Guidelines for Communicating with Each Other with Fairness, Respect and Caring When You Are Upset
How to Stop Being A Victim by Using the Power of Words
How to Take Your Power As You Age, by Confronting and Asking for and Giving Accountability
The Challenge of Care Giving and Care Receivers
The Integrity Challenge Of Caregiving
The Importance Of Integrity For Care Receivers
Liberation Psychology
Liberation Psychology: A Modern View of Classical Thought and A Classical View of Modern Thought
Liberation Psychology: Calling for Revolution Not Reform
If You Have Questions of Your Own
Integrating Liberation Psychology with Liberated Theology
Liberated Theology: God as Life Force, Power as Energy, and Integrity not Morality as the Governing Principle
How Liberation Psychology Became My Theology
Liberated Theology: Building on Einstein's View of God
Women and the Violence of Verbal Abuse
Women as Victims of Verbal Abuse
Women as Verbal Abusers
The Emotional Toll of Abuse on Women
Breaking Free of Emotional Bondage
How Fear of Ourselves Entraps Us
Her Tears
Her Fear
The Fist
The Shamed
My Rage
A Women's Manifesto
A Declaration of Liberation from Our Own Oppression
Our Many Selves, My Self/My Self
Running Commentaries
Redefining Power As Energy Not Control
Challenging Genderized Power: Defining Power As Energy Not Control
Women as Yielders and Yielding as Power
Violating Anger vs. Liberating Anger
Doing Life As A Journey Not A Test Requires Learning to Process Information Not Prove with It
Confrontation with Accountability
The Purpose and Philosophy of Self-Expression With Accountability
The Courage of Confrontation and Accountability Contrasted With the Hostility of Accusation and Blame
Learning Self-Expression with Accountability Takes Discipline, Courage, Commitment... and Brains
Learning How to Be True to Our Emotions without Being Abusive with Them
Using the Power of Words as Weapons or as Tools
The Power Of Using Words As Tools Not As Weapons
How To Communicate With Integrity Who You Are and What You Need
Introduction
What Does Integrity Look Like
Communicating With Ourselves and Each Other
The Power of Language
The Guiding Principles Governing Our Communication Network
Psycho-logic: Processing Psychological Information Not Analyzing or Judging It
Intimacy and Relationships
Learning to Have Intimacy in Conversations
Intimate Talk
The Relief of Considering Life a Journey Not a Test
Women's Liberation Tales: Journeying Metaphorically from the Suffering of Psychological Oppression to the Awakening of Psychological Liberation
Introduction to Women's Mythical Liberation Tales
Love and Innocence
Leaving
She
I Am Who Am
Her Tears
Her Fear
Silently Nothing
The Fist
The Shamed
My Rage
Liberation Tapes
Psychological Recipes For a Self-Expression Cookbook
A Self-Expression Cookbook
Hello Jello
Recipe for Successful Studying Bread
Anti-Depression Cocktail
Recipe for Anger Chili
Confronting Anxiety Soup
Textbook for Teachers: Preventing Hostility and Violence by Teaching Accountabilty and Fairness
Book: Proposal
Book: Table of Contents
Book: Introduction
Book Chapter: The Power of Language
Book Chapter: Capturing the Positive Force of Fairness to Prevent the Negative Force of Violence
Book Chapter: What Is Self-Expression with Accountability?
Book Chapter: How Gender Affects Our Relationship to Anger and Violence and to Self-Expression with Accountability
Violence and Schools: Violence and Masculinity
The Price of Masculinity Based on Violence
The Purpose and Philosophy of Self-Expression With Accountability
The Courage of Confrontation and Accountability Contrasted With the Hostility of Accusation and Blame
Learning Self-Expression with Accountability Takes Discipline, Courage, Commitment... and Brains
Learning How to Be True to Our Emotions without Being Abusive with Them
Using the Power of Words as Weapons or as Tools
How to Teach Confrontation with Accountability and Prevent Hostility and Abuse
For Teachers: Strategies for Dealing with Stressful and/or Abusive Interactions
Education in a Communications Context
Our Complicity in Linking Masculinity to Violence
Beware of the Bullied
Running Commentaries
How to to Stop Bullying in Our Schools: Change the Culture of Communication : Teach Confrontation with Accountability
The Price We Pay For Using Bullying And Verbal Abuse As Our Primary Way Of Communicating
Taking a Closer Look at Helen Thomas’s Remarks and Her Forced Resignation
The Shamed
Where is American Women's Outrage Over the Plight of Afghan Women?
Liberated Duality: Beyond "Beyond God the Father"
Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State and the Hope that Enkindles
Sarah Palin Scares Me
Hillary Clinton's Powerful Evolution Before Our Very Eyes
National Bullying Breeds Hostility that Leads to Violence
The Legacy of Rosa Parks
Aruba, Senior Trip, Vanished, and Chaperones
Why Do the Majority of Americans Prefer Lies and Half Truths?
The Sinister Righteousness and Bigotry Underlying the Moral Values Of Our Electorate
The Deadly Power of Ridicule and Inuendo Rampant in the Media War
When School Bullies Are Allowed to Bully, Why Not Arrest the Administrators?
Liberation Is More Than A Military Victory, It Is A State of Mind
Making War Never Makes Peace, It Makes War
A Boy Commits Suicide. Who is to Blame?
Where Is The Integrity of Our Efforts in Post-War Iraq?
Why Waging War Is So Much More Dramatically Attractive Than Waging Peace
The Crime of Rejecting Peace
Abusive Betrayal of Love
Aggressive Behavior and Day Care: Formula for Bullying?
And Two Students Are Dead
Where is the Integrity of the Death Penalty?
What Does the Accident of John Kennedy, Jr. Have in Common with a Local Boy's Accident?
The Great Scam: Self-Denial and Self-Deception
And then there was Columbine
Intimacy with Symbols
The Pressure to Tolerate Verbal Abuse
Where is The Vision and the Leadership in Our Schools?
The Silence Surrounding Teen Suicide
Our Complex Relationship to Time
Integrity vs. Morality
Is There A Way to Win An Election by Telling the Truth and Playing Fair?
The Question of Taking A Position Not A Side
Why Care About Meeting the Millennium?
The Genome Project and Liberation Psychology: It's All About Evolution and Exchange of Information
And What Do We Say About A Mother Who Murders Her Children?
Reclaiming the Flag
Did We Need A Fatal Example to Prove Machismo Can Kill?
Freeing Afghan Women Will Take More Than Allowing Them to Take off Their Burqua
Andrea Yates' Murder Trial Asks the Question, "What is Right or Wrong"?
Andrea Yates: Voted the 21st Century's First Official Witch
The Outrage of Allowing American Muslim Women to Hide Their Face For a Driver's License Photo
Male Arrogance and the Cover-up of Pedophile Priests
Samantha Runnion and Her Little Friend Are Heroes as Is Erica Pratt
Inspirational Reflections for the Victims of Brain Injury and Their Caregiving Families
Index
Introduction
The Agony of Your Reactions to Anti-Seizure Medications and the Terror of Feeling Like You're Disintegrating
Appreciating What We Have
Escaping the Onus of Unworthiness
On the Border
Where to Put the Anger and the Pain?
Reconciling the Paradox of Personal Struggle and Other's Struggle: When Choice is Lost
New Musings
Keep on Keeping On
The Dilemma of Keeping A Spiritual Connection When Bodily Issues Clamor for Attention
In Sharp Contrast
Musings to sort...
Strategies for Dealing with the Disorientation of Feeling Disconnected from Yourself
Journaling
And Once Again We Must "Deal with It"
A Dramatic/Traumatic Turning Point
Courage, Perseverance and Change
Transition
What Does Integrity Look Like Five Years Later?
The Paradox of Brain Damage
The Paradox of Gift and Curse
The Struggle to Reconcile a Loud Body with a Sense of Well Being
The Gift and Burden of Post-encephalitis
The Intense Struggle to Find a Sense of Well Being
The Changing Face of Reality
Intimacy with Hard
The Paradox of Feeling Energized and Capable
The Joy of Reaping from Hard Work
The Paradox of Intimacy with/in Self-Reflection
Reconciling Sadness and Loss with Gratitude and Gain
Memory Loss
The Isolation of Brain Damage
Sustaining a Strong Self-Image in the Face of Memory Loss
In Stark Contrast: Learning to Value Being and Knowing Not Just of Doing and Proving
Re-Defining and Re-Claiming "Feeling Like A Jerk"
The Relentlessness of Brain Injury and Memory Loss
Memory Loss and Credibility
The Fatigue of Continuing to Need to Rediscover
The Awesome Magnitude of Knowing
May Day and Memory Loss
Practical Strategies
You're Not A Project
The Guidelines for Living Out of the Musings
Home Containment
Confronting the Runaway Energy That's Triggered When You Anticipate or Do Tasks
The Paradoxical Dilemma of Sleep
Reflections on Being Awakened at Night and not Being Able to Get Back to Sleep
Vehicles for Creating A Team with the Anxious One's Energy
Relief and Discouragement
The Tiring Need for Re-Learning and Repetition
The Marathon of "Keep on Keeping On"
The Relief of Feeling Alert and Renewed
The Inner Joy of Journeying Well
Dealing with Discouragement
Pacing, Rhythm, and Timing
Pacing and Rhythm
The Process of Lining Things Up
The Dilemma of Timing
Containing Runaway Energy
The Dilemma of Trying Too Hard
Reconciling Sadness and Loss with Gratitude and Gain
Yielding to Brain Damage
Yielding's Gift
The Complexity of Yielding to the Brain Damage
Dealing with the Powerlessness of Having a Damaged Brain
Reaping From What We Sow
The Toll of Never Being "Cured"
The Price of Brain Damage Revisited
Daring to go to Yale-New Haven Hospital for Observation and Monitoring
The Freedom of Dealing With It
Dealing with Harsh Reality
The Capacity to Savor and Embrace
Daring to Maximize Our Potential
Integrity, Intimacy, and Inspiration
A Closer Look at Integrity
The Depth of Being That Intimacy with Integrity Brings
The Gift of Integrity
Integrity of Discouragement and Despair
The Role of Inspiration in the Healing/Recovery Process
The Christmas of the Millennium
Reflecting on the Millennium New Year
Mother and Daughter: The Added Complication of Brain Damage
Proclaim It to the World
Capturing the Essence of Meditation and Inspiration
Circling Back on the Gift of the Paradox
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