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INTERNAL FAMLY SYSTEMS: WE ARE GARLICS NOT ONIONS
Many forms of therapy lead us to believe that we are like onions and that by peeling away the layers we reveal our true selves. Internal family Systems (IFS), a system of psychotherapy designed by Dr Richard Schwartz, says we are more like a garlic. We are made up of many parts which all come…
WHY TELL STORIES?
Stories allow you to be known. There are things about your life that have happened to you, and only to you. By telling these stories others come to know you and to understand your unique experience. Stories are a way of making sense of life. Life happens as pure experience. Events happen to us. It…
MICRO AFFECTIONS
Co-creating a relational culture of connection. Couples seek therapy because things are not going so well. There are problems or difficulties for which they want help. Often, each has complaints about the other, with the idea that if the other could change, even a little, things would get better. Hedy Schleifer says that there are…
HOLOTROPIC BREATH
There is an explosion of people interested in working with psychedelics as therapeutic medications. There is much research underway, showing promise for the use of MDMA for Post Traumatic Stress disorder, and Psilocybin for Cancer related anxiety. Ayelet Waldman’s book calld “A good day” reflects an interest in the practice of microdosing for the treatment…
THE POWER OF NATURE
In his book Soul Craft Bill Plotkin says that the source of our suffering is that we have lost connection with our wildness. We have forgotten that we are part of nature, not separate from it. To remind myself, I participated in a weeklong wilderness experience. Fifteen or us, all men, gathered on a mountain…