When Soul Leads: What a Folk Collaboration Taught Me About Music, Healing, and Why I Do This Work

When Soul Leads: What a Folk Collaboration Taught Me About Music, Healing, and Why I Do This WorkBy: Mary Coughlin Published on: 29/03/2025

In this reflective piece, Mary Coughlin explores the intersection of music, healing, and trauma-informed care. Inspired by a folk music collaboration, she reflects on how presence, creativity, and the artist’s heart are essential to caregiving, leadership, and personal transformation.

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When Soul Leads: What a Folk Collaboration Taught Me About Music, Healing, and Why I Do This Work

A Day in the Life: Governance Rooted in Care, Healing, and Deep Belonging

A Day in the Life: Governance Rooted in Care, Healing, and Deep BelongingBy: Mary Coughlin Published on: 09/03/2025

Reimagining governance as a system of care, healing, and deep belonging. Explore a future beyond power and control—where leadership is relational, work is purpose-driven, and communities thrive in harmony with nature and each other.

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A Day in the Life: Governance Rooted in Care, Healing, and Deep Belonging

The Cost of Cruelty: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Harms Us All

The Cost of Cruelty: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Harms Us AllBy: Mary Coughlin Published on: 27/02/2025

Dehumanizing political rhetoric isn’t just divisive—it’s dangerous. In this post, we explore how harmful stereotypes about poverty fuel policies that hurt real people and erode our collective humanity. It’s time to shift the narrative, challenge misinformation, and build a future rooted in dignity, justice, and compassion.

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The Cost of Cruelty: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Harms Us All

Hospicing Modernity: Reimagining Care through Trauma-Informed Developmental Care and Caring Science

Hospicing Modernity: Reimagining Care through Trauma-Informed Developmental Care and Caring ScienceBy: Mary Coughlin Published on: 23/02/2025

Explore how Hospicing Modernity intersects with Trauma-Informed Developmental Care and Caring Science, offering a transformative vision for reimagining healthcare through connection, equity, and humanity.

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Hospicing Modernity: Reimagining Care through Trauma-Informed Developmental Care and Caring Science

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