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What does it mean to be human? What do we make of this life? How do we hurt, and heal, one another? What does it take to love? What does it cost to hate? How do we stay fully alive to our humanity? How do we find the means to behold beauty and kindness? How do we live fully and authentically? Throug…

Leanh Nguyen, Ph.D.

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On living and being human: The case about psychotherapy

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How do we love each other: The case for curiosity

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How we de-humanize each other

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What makes us human: The case for tenderness

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Fighting against trafficking: Retrieving the human.

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Training for music or for life

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Living as Art

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Making Art and Selling Art

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Looking at the other

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The arts in repairing young lives

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Mediating divorce: Supporting connection and kindness.

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The place of money

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In Guantanamo: Survival instinct and resilience.

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 25, 2018 56:10

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The wounding of 9/11: The men of Guantanamo

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From child to person: how we raise a human being

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The work of caring for others

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What it takes to give birth

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Feminism, abortion rights, and the meaning of personhood

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2018 55:24

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Faith and being human.

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A psychoanalyst in China

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Finding purpose to life in the midst of losing life.

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The loss of a child, the birth of an activist

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Finding the light, finding purpose

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Fighting with Life

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The fear of life, the weight of desire.

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Questions and Answers

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2018 56:56

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Why I do my work

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Only to connect

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Human Rights Workers: The motivations behind the aspirations

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What and how we teach our children

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2018 55:22

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The Music of Life

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Human Rights: The aspirations and assumptions about human life

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Love and war in matrimony: What is 'family' in Family Law?

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Playing for life: The journey to asylum and passion for music.

Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2018 54:33

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The meaning of hero

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Becoming human and staying human: How to live after abuse

Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2018 55:10

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From victim to survivor to human: One Mans Journey

Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2018 55:01

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The things that we strive for: What trauma reveals.

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What makes us human? Why ask and how do we live the question?

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