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Empowerment

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    EmpowermentVisioning

    Awaken Your Sleeping Genie

    by Jacqueline Jannotta December 11, 2020

    I’ve always had a nagging sense that we humans hold far more power than we realize—yet we keep it out of reach, always just around the bend. For me, when things feel a little off, it’s like there’s an inner genie ready to “blink” her way into ideal circumstances. But when my instinct moves to execute—*Poof*—it disappears.  Earlier this year, however, I discovered something that taps into the superpower aspect of us that seems long gone. And in the midst of so much unsteadiness in our country and our world, I’m excited to share an accessible practice that can change your life for the better. It’s calming, centering… and at times mind-boggling.  

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  • EmpowermentVisioning

    Becoming Better—Literally—Using the Power of Our Minds

    by Jacqueline Jannotta November 14, 2020
    November 14, 2020

    Every time the nurses or doctors came into my daughter’s hospital room, they shuffled through her chart, puzzled. “Did they forget to mark her oxycodone, her painkillers?” they would ask.…

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    Becoming People Who Protect Democracy

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 27, 2020
    October 27, 2020

    My last post (Designing a Better Map to Guide Us) spoke of a hopeful future and a unified US. But I have to confess that the current election has tested…

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    Designing a Better Map to Guide Us

    by Jacqueline Jannotta October 15, 2020
    October 15, 2020

    Every now and then my petulant 14-year-old daughter will extract herself from the latest viral TikTok video and declare her thoughts about a real-world issue. This week she surprised me…

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  • EmpowermentPerspective

    Reframing the Apocalypse

    by Jacqueline Jannotta September 12, 2020
    September 12, 2020

    Earlier this week, an intense windstorm knocked out our power for several hours. Today is the third day of an orange sky casting an eerie pall over Portland, as wildfire…

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  • EmpowermentVisioning

    Embrace the Unknown

    by Jacqueline Jannotta July 10, 2020
    July 10, 2020

    “Do you think it’s possible that humans will ever evolve beyond war?” I asked, casually sprawled on the dorm lobby sofa. Mike’s response was a swift, flat-out “No.” “Not even…

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    Becoming People Who Stand for Equality and Racial Justice

    by Jacqueline Jannotta June 22, 2020
    June 22, 2020

    As evidenced in The Illusion of Progress, one thing that gets me through these ongoing moments of collective stress is to zoom out and view them as history in action.…

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    Becoming People Who Are News-Literate

    by Jacqueline Jannotta June 2, 2020
    June 2, 2020

    My last post, The House that Covid Built, sparked plenty of conversations in our house about which news articles are true and helpful and which aren’t. We live in a…

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  • EmpowermentStories

    The House that Covid Built

    by Jacqueline Jannotta May 22, 2020
    May 22, 2020

    This is the story that told of the people that spread the disease that was caused by the droplets from someone who ate the bat that got the virus that…

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  • EmpowermentVisioning

    Shocking the National Heartbeat

    by Jacqueline Jannotta March 20, 2020
    March 20, 2020

    I remember the first time I heard it — or saw it rather. It was during the Gulf War in 1991 and SCUD missiles were being launched into Israel, putting…

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