Category: Psychotherapy

• Stormy Weather

  

  Yesterday was dramatic, periods of cloud followed by bright, intense sunlight. In the afternoon cloud rolled in, followed by rain, heavy at night and accompanied by thunder, then changing to light snow. The day’s high temperature was 72F, reached about three in the afternoon; by seven it was 40F. Now, snow flurries dance in a…

  Michael Watson PhD

  February 26, 2017

  Climate Change, Ecopsychology, Healing, Psychotherapy, Social issues, spirituality, Stories

  climate change, Conversations Project, Social Change, spirituality

• The Stories that Guide Us

  I awoke from a night filled with dreams to a day of broken overcast and seasonal chill. The late January light is much diminished by cloud and the wane sun throws no shadows. There are narratives among Native people that we are living in the fifth or sixth iteration of the world. Not unlike the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 30, 2017

  native american, Psychotherapy, Social issues, Stories

  Native American, psychotherapy, stories

• The Resilience of Stories

  A lovely, snow-covered morning. The woods are lovely and dark, and highlighted by the intense white of newly fallen snow; not much snow mind you, just enough to coat the trees. Ours is a remnant forest so it is not deep; there are just enough trees to support hermit thrushes. Under the snow, a layer…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 25, 2017

  native american, Psychotherapy, Stories

  Arts, healing, Shamanism, Social Change

• Epiphany

  It’s late afternoon on a Tuesday, a gray, murky, fiercely windy day, shortly before sunset. The aforementioned wind is howling, scouring the deep cold from the valley. I’m listening to a choral concert for Epiphany on BBC3. It’s been a day of cancellations, mostly due to illness of one sort or another; it seems to…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 10, 2017

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  Epiphany, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism, wisdom