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What's in your name? Just your whole world. How on earth did you get it?
Jack or Jill, Ahmed or Aysegul, Francesco or Claudia, love it or hate it, your name contains big intergenerational stories, in just a few letters or characters. Let's have a look into it.

Karen Sole
Oct 155 min read
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Let's give a glittering new dress to the Cinderella of health care
Let’s talk about it, normalise it, de-mystify it, try to understand it, accept its pervasiveness, develop compassion toward our friends, family members and acquaintances who encounter it. Lets recognise it as a systemic issue and not an individual issue. Let’s fully accept that ‘mental illness’ is as blameless as cancer or a broken arm, or toothache. Let’s work towards breaking down the often astounding difficulties involved in getting help within the health and welfare syste

Karen Sole
Oct 63 min read
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A message to the New Zealand governing coalition: not in my name.
But it is not a peace plan. The whole world saw that in a nano second. It is merely the coda to Netanyahu’s forever stated determination to smash and decimate Palestine in Gaza and take over the territory fully. Humanity cannot bear the personal and collective consequences of the evil enacted in this genocide. For generations we will feel the trauma it has created.

Karen Sole
Oct 12 min read
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Never again has become shut the fuck up
In the same way each of us does, the world accumulates grief and trauma. The most recent is never over before the next crashes over us. That is clear, as we see the horrors of the Holocaust still rippling through generations of the perpetrators and the victims in equal measure and power. So too, the effects of the Nakba(s). And now, the tsunami that Israel created in 2023 is insistent, thrashing every shore. There is no way to avoid it.

Karen Sole
Jul 294 min read
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All the trauma lived out loud, all the kindness, all the love, all the current geopolitics, and all the billionaires and white American dream left out
...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
Jun 173 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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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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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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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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Manawa Family Constellations and Life Coaching Package
the healing power of constellation work + personalised coaching (for) clarity, to overcome obstacles and achieve your personalised goals

Karen Sole
Aug 31, 20242 min read
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Collective Trauma Shows Up and Shapes Us
'[(despite) resilience]...the trauma does not just float away. We hold it. We carry it. We embody it. We just may not know it.'

Karen Sole
Aug 7, 20244 min read
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Here's The Skinny On Manawa Family Constellations Appointments
replace old, buried, forgotten, unruly hitches in your family system, get fresh perspectives and peace

Karen Sole
Jul 21, 20241 min read
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Way More Grandparents Bringing Up Grandchildren
Therapy can help individuals with the disruption... that occurs in families/whanau and households consisting of first and third generations

Karen Sole
Jul 20, 20243 min read
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Touching Three Millennia
'Unresolved past is destiny; it repeats until we have the courage to work together to face it.' Thomas Hubl

Karen Sole
Mar 28, 20245 min read
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