Category: Psychotherapy
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After the Conversation
While revisiting my last post, I became aware of what is a common conundrum for people of color, Jews, Natives, those with disabilities, and other marginalized groups. How are we to tell what is a microaggression, and what is simply an eddy in the swirl of social interaction? My brief conversation with Dr. Spitz took…
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The Sacred Mundane
Unlike the Western worldview in which the sacred and profane are divided, the everyday becoming profane and distant from the scared, in the shaman’s world, they are interwoven
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Musings: Scars, Fragrances, and Memory
Writing about being fitted for a new brace, and reading and responding to, the comments on that post, seems to have opened a doorway on to the immediacy of the past in the present, and to meaning making in the aftermath of intense experience, particularly illness. This morning I awoke early, before there was any…
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The Task of Grieving
While working in the studio this morning, I chanced to pick up an old sketchbook, one from the late 70’s. Looking out from the studio, across the mid-winter landscape, I paused to enjoy the long shadows and brilliant, snow-reflected sunlight. The contrast between sunlight and shade is strong this time of year, and as today…
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