Category: Healing

• A Letter from Vermont: A Near Miss

  A lovely morning, the bright mid-February sun illuminating the very air as it bounced off last night’s fluffy snowfall. Now clouds have begun to fill in from the west, turning the day chilly and dank.

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 18, 2018

  Social issues, spirituality

  Mass Violence, psychotherapy, School shootings, stories, Vermont

• Minding Difference

  

  A gray, rather dreary day. Maybe an inch of snow overnight. A cold start to the day is forecast to give way to relative warmth as the day unfolds. One of the joys of winter is clearly seeing the forms of bare trees. Differing species show dramatically diverse forms, reminding the viewer to actually pay…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 11, 2018

  Arts, Psychotherapy, Social issues, spirituality, Stories

  Otherness, psychotherapy, stories

• Writing: Challenging Colonizing Narratives

  

  The other day a friend told me that she had decided to stop writing about her experience of extensive childhood trauma. She had spent months holed up in her tiny study, writing a couple, to several hours, each day. She was tired of retelling the same stories and could see no way forward into new…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 9, 2018

  Arts, First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy, spirituality, Stories

  First Nations, healing, stories, trauma

• Epiphany: Little Christmas

  

  A snowy, blustery, frigid , monochrome day! Today is Epiphany: Little Christmas. This day in the Christian liturgical calendar honors the arrival of the Wise Men at the stable in Bethlehem.

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 6, 2018

  Disability, First Nations, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues, spirituality, Stories

  Christmas, Epiphany, healing, Native American, Shamanism