Category: Psychotherapy
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Preparing for India
Jennie leaves for Indonesia on Sunday. We are in focused mode as she makes last-minute preparations. She’s excited to be going to a new country, as well as setting out on her longest teaching trip thus far. I am packing as well. We’re trying to decide what Jennie will take, and what I will bring…
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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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