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Mo, the Netflix series - what's not to like?
...every time things seem to be sorting out, something else comes along to mess it up again, because that’s how life is, particularly for vulnerable people of all kinds ...

Karen Sole
2 days ago3 min read
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How you are at home is how you are at work
Managers are often not naturally imbued with skills and attributes required for working well and effectively with people they are charged with managing. It becomes an awkward hit and miss affair punctuated by dodgems, deceit, delusions, and ending with anxiety and stress.

Karen Sole
Jun 108 min read
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our laughter has been honed 'til it gleams like an axe
Poor pay and conditions contribute so much to women’s stress and consequent poor physical, emotional, and mental health outcomes. Eighty percent of auto immune disease is in women...Maori and Pacific women fare measurably worst among women here in all spheres of life. Not paying women adequately for their work exacerbates all the structural problems...Women’s work matters to everyone.

Karen Sole
May 256 min read
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Israel Is the Macrocosmic Version of the Violent Family Living Next Door, AND The Abusive Relatives In Your Family System
Israel is the apparently unimpeachable former victim turned rampant perpetrator, blessed only with protectors, not stopped by flame facers, or only ones they murder.

Karen Sole
May 166 min read
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Another Self. Another Story. Meet Mr Zaman!
'...three women and their somewhat chaotic lives with lovers and mothers and others, we find a Constellation practitioner working in an idyllic Turkish setting.'

Karen Sole
May 65 min read
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Nobody Said It Was Easy. Nobody Said It Would Be So Hard.
How can we better know our parents, their parents and grandparents, and by extrapolation the ones who came before them? Who were they, the dearly loved elders?

Karen Sole
Apr 217 min read
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We Need To Talk About Jamie. And Eddie.
Adolescence, the Netflix series, is loaded with trauma coming down the line, and out of the Andrew Tate poisoned air. And more. I'm picking up on just one aspect of family systems here. Belonging.

Karen Sole
Apr 126 min read
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Your Timeless Story: A Meditation To Connect You With Your Ancestors On Their Land
Stand on the land of your ancestors. Take it in. Feel the influence their place and time has on you now.

Karen Sole
Apr 82 min read
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Complex and Often Conflicting Emotions When Someone We Love Is Dying
'...we can become more resilient and more capable in the face of their imminent death, move through it with more calm and acceptance...'

Karen Sole
Mar 177 min read
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Join My Online Workshop.
'Experience the deep exploration of a family/systemic constellation without leaving home. You need good connectivity and laptop or tablet'..

Karen Sole
Mar 71 min read
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Doing Is Believing: The Skinny On Getting Constellated
'...get to the root source of your unhelpful patterns - yes, even you, you wonderful accomplished person'...

Karen Sole
Mar 75 min read
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Karma Is Not A Spiritual Commodity
Intergenerational stress or trauma or joy or what we create by our own actions, or take on by interest or proximity has an effect. Karma.

Karen Sole
Feb 105 min read
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Your Ancestors, Their Hangout, and You.
'There are inextricable links between human kinship, our kinship with the land (hangout) of our ancestors, and ...our lives and experiences'

Karen Sole
Jan 285 min read
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Get Curious About Your. Sweet. Self. And Stop Blaming Others For What 'Goes Wrong' .
‘When you throw a stone into a pond, the pond doesn’t know that it ripples.’

Karen Sole
Jan 274 min read
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You Didn't Get Here By Yourself
Our life events assume their proper teeny, tiny size in the cosmic scheme of things when we stand in front of our ancestors

Karen Sole
Jan 272 min read
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'Night and Day' Online Workshop, 16 March 2025
Night and Day Online workshop, 16 March 2025 2000 NZ time; 0800 central European time. Register your interest.

Karen Sole
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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GetConstellated: My Substack
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Karen Sole
Dec 14, 20241 min read
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Taking Constellations to the Community
I'm excited about the series of weekday mid-morning workshops that allow women to do their school drop-offs, maybe have a leisurely...

Karen Sole
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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Celebrating Albrecht Mahr's Telling of Systemic Constellation
...watch Albrecht Mahr telling his sense + experience of systemic/family constellations. It's soft, precise, sensitive, elegant ...

Karen Sole
Sep 24, 20241 min read
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The Healing Trifecta: Inter-generational Kinship, Land, Connection
.. constellations therapy .. links ..human kinship ..kinship with the land of our ancestors, and (their) impact on our lives + experiences

Karen Sole
Sep 19, 20244 min read
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