Category: Healing

• Remembering the Healing Stories

  Lauret Savoy ends Traces with this: “Remembering is an alternative to extinction.” Remembering is a well-formed story. One of my early clinical teachers used to insist that neurosis was that which prevented the development of healing story, and that psychotherapy was the search for stories that worked. I’ve come to the conclusion that this is…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 17, 2016

  Healing, native american, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Stories

  healing, Jr., Martin Luther kIng, Native American, psychotherapy, Shamanism, stories

• The Miracle of a Body

  New Years Eve; outside, a dramatic sunset. The weather has turned chilly and damp, almost seasonal, and there are finally a few inches of snow on the ground. This evening we will visit with friends, bringing in the New Year with games, food, and a good fire. I began writing this in daylight and must…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 31, 2015

  Disability, native american, Shamanism, Social issues

  body, Christmas, disability, Solstice

• Traces

  We went downtown last night to walk and enjoy the lights. As we drove home the snow began. This morning, for the first time this season, there are a couple of inches of snow on the ground. It appears to be snowing still in the mountains where snow fell most of yesterday. Christmas Eve the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 20, 2015

  Climate Change, Ecopsychology, Healing, native american, Stories

  Aldo Leopold, healing, Lauret Savoy, Native American, racism

• Ancestors, Ceremony, and Trauma

  

  Today dawned gray and wet. We took advantage of the clock change, and slept in. Now, to the west the low overcast is raising. The oaks have turned abruptly; the maples have largely dropped their leaves and the breeze moves their bare branches. It is the sort of day that Thomas Hardy celebrated when he…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 1, 2015

  Healing, Shamanism, Teaching

  ancestors, autumn, ceremony, healing, Shamanism