Category: Psychotherapy
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Gatekeeping
I’ve had several conversations about gatekeeping as of late. I like that the term has so many connotations and applications. It is a metaphor worth lingering with. We are complex, self organizing, evolving systems. We need permeable boundaries to let in information and nutrients, and to release toxins and waste. If our boundaries are too…
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Caring for Earth: A Gift and A Burden
It has been snowing, intermittently, for most of the past week. We have also experienced freezing rain, sleet, and, very briefly, just plain rain. It is warm, compared to the historical norm, resulting in the periods of mixed precipitation rather than just snow. Had it been all snow we would be housebound. I’m sitting by…
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Ghosts
Every now and again I meet a ghost, a spirit that has, for whatever reason, not moved on after death. Maybe sometimes I can be helpful to them. Natives are perceived as have a long relationship to the spirits, as being engaged on a day-to-day basis with family and Ancestors who have passed on. (This…
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