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Dear Pacifica Graduates, It is with great regret that due to the current COVID-19 crisis Pacifica Graduate Institute, after careful deliberation, has decided against holding commencement [...]

The Ultimatum: Stay or Leave? By Jan Peppler, Ph.D. The State Department is advising all United States citizens abroad: return home now or stay where you are and wait out this pandemic. If you [...]

Successful Aging Written By: David Selberg, CEO Hospice of Santa Barbara Charles Caldwell, Director of Strategic Advancement  

We have been here before By Matthew Bennett, Psy.D., Clinical Psychology, Georgia School of Professional Psychology A feeling normally as individual as the ache of separation from those one loves [...]

Fear Is a Teacher By Juliet Rohde-Brown, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, Fielding Graduate University As Pema Chodron has said, “fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.” We are [...]

Pandemic and Embracing One Another By Fanny Brewster, Ph.D., M.F.A., LP As the United States enters its own state of fear and anxiety regarding the coronavirus, we are challenged with not only [...]

Possibilities in an Unclear Future This morning I was awaken by the blaring sound of ambulance sirens racing down my street. In a state of an emergency those sirens are eerily louder and [...]

In Remembrance of Nan Savage Healy (Pacifica ‘10) and to celebrate her groundbreaking book: Toni Wolff & C.G. Jung: A Collaboration(2017) Written by: Kathryn & Wil Savage, her children [...]

Coronavirus: Grassroots public health By Mindy Thompson Fullilove There have been two recent images in the New York Times that capture a crucial aspect of what is going on in the US as we [...]

Self-isolating is not Self Isolation! We have choices. We do not have a choice about whether we are going to have this pandemic. We do have a choice about how we have this pandemic. [...]