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Virginia Satir: A Brilliant Thinker Who Saw The Need Freedom In Families
https://freedom-demokrasi-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | 26th June, 2023 | Ozguy1945

Posted on 06/26/2023 12:31:45 AM PDT by Ozguy1945

Virgina Satir was born 97 years ago on the 26th of June, 1916.

She was a brilliant psychotherapist, whose pioneering work in helping families heal, earned her the title "Mother of Family Therapy".

She wasn't a great poet, but her poem "I am me" is at least a little bit Whitmanesque to me. The first lines are:

"My declaration of self-esteem

I am me In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it ......."

How like Whitman is her capacity for vision that transcends the limits of the individual: “The family is a microcosm. By knowing how to heal the family, I know how to heal the world.” ?

Satir fully understood the reality that modern societies do not make life easy for their parents: “So much is asked of parents, and so little is given ......... Every word, facial expression, gesture, or action on the part of a parent gives the child some message about self-worth. It is sad that so many parents don’t realize what messages they are sending.”

Can western societies survive when westerners so openly trash the family foundations of our lives?

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1 posted on 06/26/2023 12:31:45 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

I may be wrong, but I have come to the conclusion that the democrats attacked the black families with the “Great Society” to destroy their families in order to gain more control over black society, and society in general.

Now they are going after white families joining with the LGBT factions, and especially the trans-cult to further the government’s power.


2 posted on 06/26/2023 12:38:42 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: Ozguy1945
"My declaration of self-esteem: I am me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that comes out of me is authentically mine because I alone chose it ......."

Sounds like the "Bad Guy Affirmation" from "Wreck-It Ralph" ...


3 posted on 06/26/2023 1:20:02 AM PDT by BlueLancer (One for all ... All for one ... Every man for himself) (Moe, Larry, and Curley)
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To: 21twelve

You are correct- they even said so!

LBJ (when signing ‘the great society’ legislation: “I’ll have them n*****s voting Democrat for 200 years.

Before that they voted Republican because Lincoln was a founding member of the GOP.


4 posted on 06/26/2023 1:58:47 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare)
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To: Ozguy1945

Me me me. Me? Me. And I.


5 posted on 06/26/2023 2:46:06 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: 21twelve

It’s cultural marxism at its finest. You attack the interwoven social fabric and pull it into its constituent parts... Reducing the unit to “tribes” then you pit them against one another.

Gotta love the joys of marxism. Every new leader does the same thing, oppress the people and steal like a “sonovabitch” until another tribal leader steps up to the plate (trough). They go in skinny touting the merits of marxism and come out fatter than capitalist businessmen.
look at Xi, look at Putin and the Clinton dynasty: Obama and biden


6 posted on 06/26/2023 3:33:52 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Ozguy1945

I think we went to different schools together - 97 Years ago was 1926.


7 posted on 06/26/2023 4:33:51 AM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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He didn’t even get the date of death right. She died on September 10th, 1988.


8 posted on 06/26/2023 8:34:25 AM PDT by princeofdarkness
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To: RichyTea

Sorry Ozguy never mentioned date of death. Apologies.


9 posted on 06/26/2023 8:36:37 AM PDT by princeofdarkness
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