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Flooded
Sometimes a flood destroys a world already made and the people in it; sometimes creation itself begins with the primeval water. ~ Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology, and...
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New Tricks
Therapists become ecotherapists when we… look to nature (both our own human nature as well as the natural world) as a teacher and source of healing; when we see that human suffering is intimately...
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Pain/Full
I grew up in a haunted house with a parent disabled, possessed and ultimately devoured alive by chronic physical pain. One day, Pain, an occasional intrusive visitor, burst its way in, and never ever...
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Queries Concerning Psychotherapy and Privilege
Every time we ask a question, we are generating a possible version of life. (~ David Epston in Cowley and Springen, 1995 , p. 74) Friends (Quakers) approach queries as a guide to self-examination,...
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Skin Deep
Because skin is so nuanced in its response to environmental circumstances and psychic fields it serves as a barometer for physical and psychological well-being. ~ The Book of Symbols – The Archive for...
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Looking Back
Death will not part us again, nearer to heaven than ten thousand ancestors who dream of me… ~ Rickie Lee Jones The ancestors possess this in-between quality of the flown soul and the hovering presence...
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This is What Happened
Someone asked me to write this. Sort of. They asked me if I could state, in tangible terms, the kinds of healing that I have seen take place in my work as a therapist. And I can’t. Because it didn’t...
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Pernicious Hope
Jung hung a plaque on his threshold which read: “Invited or Uninvited: God is Present.” The sign that I’ve often imagined placing over my office door, not quite as cozy and inviting as Jung’s, would...
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In Conflict
Anger (v) c.1200, “to irritate, annoy, provoke,” from Old Norse angra “to grieve, vex, distress; to be vexed at, take offense with,” from Proto-Germanic *angus (cf. Old English enge “narrow, painful,”...
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Deep Haven
“There is perhaps one attitude toward that environment which can be said to be characteristic of the emotionally mature human being… however widely and richly his feelings in this regard may...
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(Note from Martha: “A.”, who meets me in my office for psychotherapy wrote a thoughtful and honest essay about having a psychotherapist who also writes and blogs about the processes of psychotherapy. I...
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In psychotherapy no subject is off limits. We need to be reminded of that sometimes. Some clients (and some therapists) have been taught medical models of psychotherapeutic care that suggest therapy...
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… Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled women to come; let them quickly raise a dirge over us, so that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids flow with...
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