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NOMADLAND
A Lonely Nomad in the Land of Loss

March 3, 2023 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Loss can feel like a nowhere land of moving aimlessly from feeling to feeling, from place to place, inside your mind. Loss can make you feel like a lonely nomad. You’ve lost the home you know, with a person that you love. There is sadness, anger, and memories – as you grapple with the challenges …

THREE BILLBOARDS
OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?

December 7, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic and deeply painful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri gives us a tough look at how anger and blame is one (ineffective) way of trying to handle very difficult feelings. We have Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a bereaved mom: hardened, blunt, feeling uncharacteristically helpless, and furious about it. The town’s much loved …

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NOMADLAND A Lonely Nomad in the Land of Loss

THREE BILLBOARDSOUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURIHow Does The Buck Finally Stop?

NOMADLAND
A Lonely Nomad in the Land of Loss

THREE BILLBOARDS
OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?