Love and the Split Self
In the movie Take This Waltz, a young Canadian woman, Margot, is happily married although not excited about her life. Her work doesn’t fulfill her. She designs brochures but would rather be a “real” writer. She describes herself as afraid of being...BBC’s “The Why Factor”: On Cultural Memory
BBC’s The Why Factor has a short podcast on trauma well worth your time (18 minutes). Cultural Memory explores how societies respond collectively to traumatic memories of war and extreme human rights violations, which too often involves...Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy Puts the Body – and Love – Back in Mental Healthcare
For the past 50 years, psychotherapy took a back seat to biomedical psychiatry, largely due to reliance on medications for the treatment of mental disorders. Yet clinical evidence increasingly points to chronic, unresolved traumatic stress as a primary contributor to...A Sensorimotor Approach to Becoming Indigenous (and Healing Trauma)
While hiking among the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon National Park, I learned the Paiutes Indians called these majestic rock pillars the Legend People who coyote trickster turned to stone because of their evil ways. Looking out on Bryce Canyon, thinking about the fierce...
