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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 [...]

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. [...]

Being Certain About Uncertainty Uncertainty continues to grow and expand and deepen around us, creating perhaps, its own virus, a virus in the heart. We hear the words today, “everything is so [...]

Dear Pacifica Family, I am hoping you are each well and taking great care to protect yourself and to help your family, friends, and neighbors in need. Our struggle with Covid-19 is both physical [...]

Immigration Statement As Clinical Psychologists, Depth Psychologists, and Marriage and Family Therapists teaching at Pacifica Graduate Institute, we feel compelled to publicly offer our [...]

An Interview with MFT Consortium Stipend Recipient, Naris Kesheshe A Guest Post by Bonnie Bright, Ph.D. When she was 13 years old, Naris Kesheshe—who recently finished her third year in the [...]

Veterans Are Fighting Anti-Immigrant Hate With New Twitter Campaign U.S. military veterans are taking up a new fight for the country ― against anti-immigrant hate. As part of a new Twitter [...]