Table of Contents

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Love Always Wins:  Hope for Healing the Epidemic of Violence

 

Introduction to letting go 

• Breaking the silence 
• I am not who I thought I was 
• Love is letting go 
• Letting Old Vanity Evaporate 
• Seeking stability 
• Learning to grieve 

Addiction is a disease 

• Violence is an addiction 
• The recovery cycle 
• Living from the listener   (preview)

Steps to peace 

Step 1: Admit the problem 

• My trip to hell 
• Our culture of violence 

Step 2: Trust the process 

Step 3: Give up the struggle 

Steps 4 - 6: Start with yourself 

• Internalize new self-respect 
• Detach from blame 
• Relax 

Steps 7 - 9: Repair the damage 

Steps 10 - 12: Find your response-ability 

• Catching a glimpse of wildness 
• We are all response-able 
• Gestation & birth of a City of Peace 
      

Essays of encouragement 

• Victim, rebel, or co-creator? 
  • International security is patriotic 
  • Cynics create prisons 
  • Rebels seek magic 
  • What is sane leadership?
  • Vision drives action
       
• A Bridge to Peace
    
• The culture of recovery 
• Old solutions won’t fix multiple crises 
• The times they are a-changin’ 
• We are the system 
• Optimists have more fun
    
• Cliff notes for self-activation