Art Therapy Is Psychotherapy… With A More Meaningful Impact Every so often I get asked What is Art Therapy and sometimes What is the difference between Art Therapy and Psychotherapy. Art Therapy IS a form of Psychotherapy. Art Psychotherapy is different from traditional verbal psychotherapy due to the fact that along with talking about a […]
What Is Healing? Okay, so exactly what is this thing we call healing? Maybe a good idea is to focus in on the difference between the physical body and the mental health body. Can you find one? Obviously almost all of us understand our physical body is tangible. We can see and touch it, it […]
What is Trauma? What Is Actually Happening? Neuroscience has now shown that all human beings suffer from trauma throughout their lifetimes. It does NOT have to be a major event that is commonly understood as Traumatic, like a major loss, injury or exposure to a terrorizing event. Perhaps better described as Micro Trauma, everyone perceives […]
Mental Health Services Of Light We are in unprecedented times…maybe. Its easy to blame our institutions for the lack of clarity in designing and delivering competent, affordable mental healthcare for all of our citizens. We certainly contribute plenty of resources towards the financing of our systems, and many people have argued if we removed the […]
So Where Do We Go From Here? Well…Where are we? Most people spend an enormous amount of time during their lifetime seeking so “go somewhere different from where they are”. It is interesting to observe that no matter where anyone goes they end up with themselves, in roughly the same place. In clinical practice, helping […]
Ross 128…The Next Possibility New York Time, November 16, 2017…Page A7…The article titled Just A Bit Roomier Than Earth, And in a Quiet Neighborhood…talks about the newest place in the universe to look for life. What a statement! Even more interesting is that the article needed an “artist’s impression to visualize the newly discovered planet […]
Cassini Delivers Spirituality After 13 years of exploring Saturn, we get to see some fairly amazing images of a planet that for most of us are brand new, maybe. They are available at the NY Times site. Click Here To View 100 Images From Cassini’s Mission to Saturn Perhaps you have gazed at the stars […]
What is Existential Psychotherapy? From Wikipedia: Existential psychotherapy is a philosophical method of therapy that operates on the belief that inner conflict within a person is due to that individual’s confrontation with the givens of existence.[1] These givens, as noted by Irvin D. Yalom, are: the inevitability of death, freedom and its attendant responsibility, existential […]
Starlight Healing Today’s New York Times has an interesting article on page B12 Outdoors (in the Sports section)…”3,000 Feet of Granite: No Way Down But Up”. The article is about Alex Honnold, a rock climber who just successfully completed an “incomprehensible” free solo (no net, no rope) ascent of El Capitan…Yosemite’s granite walled mountain. Alex […]
Extraterrestrial Emotional Life So once again we “see” an article reporting on the exciting discoveries of multiple dwarf suns and their planets …some of which mimic our earth and hold the possibility for life as we know it. The article talks about the planets’ ability to hold a thick enough atmosphere whereby winds could distribute […]