Tag: disability

• Identity Politics

  

  This morning I awoke to an email comment on our office website. The writer sharply attacked me for saying in my bio that my father’s parents may have been Shawnee and Lakota, stating, that in her view, I am not an Indian. She accused me of being a New Age fraud, seeing as how neither…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 23, 2016

  Disability, native american, Shamanism

  disability, Identity Politics, Native American, Shamanism

• 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…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 31, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy

  disability, psychotherapy, Winter

• 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…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 23, 2016

  Disability, Psychotherapy, Shamanism

  disability, grief, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism

• The Miracle of a Body

  New Years Eve; outside, a dramatic sunset. The weather has turned chilly and damp, almost seasonal, and there are finally a few inches of snow on the ground. This evening we will visit with friends, bringing in the New Year with games, food, and a good fire. I began writing this in daylight and must…

  Michael Watson PhD

  December 31, 2015

  Disability, native american, Shamanism, Social issues

  body, Christmas, disability, Solstice