In 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 MoreIn this blog we cover a therapeutic process focused on grief. The hope of these blog posts is to offer those who need therapeutic help, an opportunity to see how a therapeutic process can unfold, and by this allow some level of resonance with the process of healing. The present case concerns Inge and Erik, a Flemish couple in their 40s living in...
Read MoreWe continue here from SHE COULDN'T GET OVER HER MOTHER'S DEATH: SEEKING RECONNECTION Inviting Mom’s Presence I: I have pictures of her with me, so I can show them! T: Yes, if you’re willing to show her. I: So I have a picture of her [shows a framed black-and-white photo].
Read More"I am using you! I am using your human embedded escapist drives, to sell you the idea that there might be a quick fix to all your suffering! YES, a fictitious way out of this shithole is what I am trying to sell you my friend! And I am not the only one!" Psychedelic research and videos about psychedelics are inflating at rapid speed due to the...
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 MoreFor Rebecca Campbell, Emily Dworkin, and Giannina Cabral self-blame in victims of sexual abuse is the product of a systemic interaction between micro and macro levels of reality. The implication of their ecological model is that for curbing and/or preventing the traumatizing effects of sexual assault, the individual-level factors (e.g.,...
Read MoreConditioned behaviours learned early in life can hold back our chances to form relationships of a healing nature. There was one principal theme I explored in the video "The books we hardly ever read", and that was the process of meeting new others. In that particular video I paused on the novel opportunities for bonding and intimacy that new...
Read MoreIt’s the environment that really does the switching, not us. And it’s mostly unconscious. It was in the 1920s that Carl Rogers, after spending five months in China as a theology student and witnessing the dreadful child labour conditions of the time, had his first major paradigm shift. Frustrated by his faith’s inability to explain and deal with...
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