trauma
Enlightenment’s Evil Twin
Exploring the Shadow Side of Meditation In 1974 Hans Burgschmidt was sixteen years old, living in the Canadian Prairies, working in a photography studio darkroom, elbow-deep in chemicals all day long. “Is this what life […]
Dr. Joseph Valks - Do Schizophrenics Live in Parallel Universes?
Schizophrenia comes from the two Greek words that mean ‘to split’ and ‘mind’ because there is a split between what’s going on in their minds and what’s happening in reality. Usually sufferers only have a […]
Velleda C. Ceccoli, PhD - The Shadow of the Thing: Remembering the Unthinkable (9/11)
Today marks an anniversary which I do not like, yet feel compelled to post on, since it is the “thing” that changed everything I knew up until the day that it happened. It is the […]
Velleda C. Ceccoli, PhD - Psychic Survival and The Packaging of the Self
We are, all of us, finely tuned complex beings. Every day in my clinical practice I am reminded of this fact. Individuals and their lives, and life solutions are never simple. Instead, each person carries […]
Lindsey Walker, LMFTA - Floating and Not Knowing
This is a limiting space, a frozen one, one where your specialness has been whipped back by other forces - once outside of you, now they are within. Sometime, somewhere, something was scary. It frightened […]
Lindsey Walker, LMFTA - The Long Tale of Trauma
We share the shapes of those who come before us, our ancestors. Our form mimics their form: our heads, hearts and limbs. Made new, in our generation, we present the world and ourselves with a […]