Tag: psychotherapy

• Cracking Open the Mind and Heart

  

  March has arrived, rainy and warm, rather more like April. More March-like is the stiff and gusty breeze, whipping the conifers and threatening to send hats and recycling careening down the street. Like the March wind, events can clear the cobwebs from our minds and thaw the icy bits from our hearts, allowing our minds…

  Michael Watson PhD

  March 1, 2017

  First Nations, Healing, Psychotherapy, Shamanism, spirituality

  healing, Indigenous, psychotherapy, Shamanism, Vera Wabegijig

• The Stories that Guide Us

  I awoke from a night filled with dreams to a day of broken overcast and seasonal chill. The late January light is much diminished by cloud and the wane sun throws no shadows. There are narratives among Native people that we are living in the fifth or sixth iteration of the world. Not unlike the…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 30, 2017

  native american, Psychotherapy, Social issues, Stories

  Native American, psychotherapy, stories

• Epiphany

  It’s late afternoon on a Tuesday, a gray, murky, fiercely windy day, shortly before sunset. The aforementioned wind is howling, scouring the deep cold from the valley. I’m listening to a choral concert for Epiphany on BBC3. It’s been a day of cancellations, mostly due to illness of one sort or another; it seems to…

  Michael Watson PhD

  January 10, 2017

  Psychotherapy, Shamanism, Social issues

  Epiphany, healing, psychotherapy, Shamanism, wisdom

• Words for a Wordless Time

  

  I’ve been left wordless. In spite of that, I’ll try to write something in response to recent events; these events demand words and actions. The weather has turned, and remains, warm and dry. Most of the trees, save the oaks, have lost their leaves. Like last year, here in November there are few signs of…

  Michael Watson PhD

  November 14, 2016

  Disability, native american, Psychotherapy

  disability, hatred, Native American, psychotherapy, trauma