If you want to listen or download the audio version of this post follow this link: https://bit.ly/2incrediblemeditations If you are new to the world of meditations the first thing I would like you to know is that meditations are a secular, non-religious, practice that will not challenge any of your belief systems. All that meditations ask you to...
Read MoreIf you ever thought of having suffered a relational trauma, particularly in your childhood, entertaining the thought of having been a victim of abuse, or ignorant behaviour, would have come along with it. While feeling like a victim is a natural response to trauma even during the first stages of one's realisation that we have suffered trauma,...
Read MoreIn the 20th century, Western culture shrouded death in silence, relegating mourning practices and death rites to the shadows of our collective awareness. A veil was drawn over death, making it a topic rarely discussed, especially with the young. However, a paradigm shift has occurred in recent times, with death now finding an open channel of...
Read MoreThe first thing I’d like to share on this subject is that phobias, although scary and seemingly gigantic in our minds, are some of the most treatable mental health issues out there. Phobias are a particular form of acute sensitivity to an object, person, or place. This acute sensitivity is not unique to those who have phobias, and is shared by...
Read MoreBy definition an experience of loss is anything that is related to the destruction or reduction of an aspect of our lives, material or immaterial, large or small, external or internal, and perceived or real that it may be. A threatening event like a biopsy for a breast lump that is found to be benign, for instance, despite being a perceived...
Read MoreTherapies for grief and loss have traditionally focused on reaching an endpoint, now popularly called closure. The word closure is therefore used to mean that a certain group of emotions or memories or thoughts have been resolved, that they have come together, and now form a coherent narrative. The fragmentation of both one's emotions and...
Read More"I am a psychotherapist" I say when asked the typical "What do you do?". "I am in the business of helping people recuperate a harmonious relationship with themselves and others" I add. "You are a healer" some suggest. "No I am there to trigger or support the healing potential in the client that comes to see me" I
Read MoreThe concept of healing has been discussed for thousands of years, by cultures as varied in lifestyle and customs as varied are the shapes and colors of our flags. In this sense the recent focus on healing that is prevalent in Western societies today is nothing new, but the multidisciplinary inquiries that are being carried out on the subject lead...
Read MoreAs absurd as this may sound, one of the most common sources of resistance to getting psychologically better that I encounter in my work, is the client's internal realisation that they have neglected themselves for at least as long as the time they were helplessly subject to abuse and attack. In other words, we resist getting better, because we...
Read MoreWhere you are in your life, no matter how diminished and small you may feel, your incompleteness is your authenticity. Just the very sense of longing in you is the voice of God speaking back to you, so start with your incompleteness, and when you feel your incompleteness, I hope you have some calluses on your hand from giving yourself a little...
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