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🌿 Colonizers, Colonized, and the Field We Hold Together
by Lian Henriksen
Last night, our storytelling and deep listening circle gathered around the theme of paradox in Spiritual Elderhood:
“Perhaps this is the essence of...
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🌿 Integrating Seeming Paradoxes in Spiritual Elderhood
by Lian Henriksen
This morning, as I entered reflection on what Wilbert Alix calls the 11th Stage of Evolution — Spiritual Elderhood, I found myself wrestling with a...
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Speaking the Truth Across Family Faultlines
by Lian Henriksen
For weeks I wrestled with a simple but not-so-simple question: Should I tell my siblings that my new book, A Listening Grandmother, has been publis...
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Family Estrangement, the Mirroring Patterns Between Fathers and Sons, and My Role as the Grandmother Holding a Wider Energetic View
by Lian Henriksen
On 13th August 2025, my daughter JoAnn wrote to me from Malaysia, where she had spent the past few weeks — first caring for her father through a br...
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Reflections on Circles, Grandmothers, and Discernment
by Lian Henriksen
14th August 2025
Intro:Sometimes the threads are spun so fine you almost miss them — a word here, a look there, a shared breath in a circle. And y...
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Calling All Grandmothers: How Do You Protect The Spirit of Your Grandchildren?
by Lian Henriksen
When I meet other grandmothers, I am always moved by the quiet strength and wisdom they carry. Recently, at a Silvers gathering, I met a photograph...
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"When Two Ways of Healing Don’t Meet"
by Lian Henriksen
This past week, I found myself living out Gene Key #4, which Richard Rudd postulates moves from Intolerance → Understanding → Forgiveness.He postul...
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WHEN THE SAME LESSON KNOCKS TWICE IN A WEEK!!
by Lian Henriksen
The Field has a strange way of underlining its point.Sometimes it sends the same lesson twice — once in broad daylight, once in the quiet of an aft...
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To Do or Not To Do? – Standing at the Crossroads of Service and Self
by Lian Henriksen
Yesterday was a day of joy — a whole Sunday spent with my daughter Karen and my grandchildren Josephine and Anton. Their laughter, questions, and l...
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From Cruelty to Compassion — A Grandmother’s Response
by Lian Henriksen
Dear Friends, 🥰 Yesterday’s circle stayed with me — the stories, the qualities we brought, and Karen’s share of Stephen Dinan’s powerful article Tu...
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Why I Stopped Being a Law of Attraction Coach — And Began Living by the Law of Alignment
by Lian Henriksen
Dear readers,I’ve been quiet for a while, sitting with a truth I’ve carried for years—one I’m now ready to share more publicly. This piece is not j...
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Three Spirals of Awakening: A Coffee Invitation, A Sacred Text, and the Pain of Being Misunderstood
by Lian Henriksen
I could also have titled this chapter: When a Kind Comment Stings: Listening Through the Spirals of the Present, the Past, and the Pattern
It began...
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