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🌿 Lineage, Colonizers, and the Paradoxes We Hold
by Lian Henriksen
At our recent circle, one grandmother shared a dilemma close to her heart: Should I attend my white family reunion, or distance myself completely? ...
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My Process of Integration at 80
by Lian Henriksen
Turning 80 is no small thing. According to Wilbert Alix’s map of the 12 Mystical Stages of Spiritual & Physical Evolution, I now walk in the st...
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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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