Category: Psychotherapy
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Healing Relationships: Rituals in Psychotherapy and Shamanic Healing
Rituals can facilitate healing in both shamanic and psychotherapeutic work. They can be used to aid reconciliation in families, request support for individuals or families during difficult times, or acknowledge healing from illness or trauma. Rituals can mark life transitions, including the beginning or ending of significant relationships. They can celebrate life, and prepare us…
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Clowns, Healing, and the Sacred
This week I noticed the first leaves just tinged with red. Summer is still very much with us, but Fall is already making itself known. Late summer is a clown, luxuriating in the pleasures of this seductive season, and pointing with sorrow to the frugalities of the coming Autumn. “Dance! Dance!” She seems to say.…
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Healers, Money, and Community
When I was young, there was, in the communities I knew, an acknowledgment that most healers were poor. That was simply the price one paid for working for the Creator.
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Gratitude, Mental Health, and Climate Change
Today I listened to part of a broadcast discussion of new research from Stanford University regarding accelerating climate change. The study found a strong likelihood that heat waves, such as we endured last week, will become increasingly common over the next thirty years. Indeed, one finding was that extreme heatwaves, events that now occur about…
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