learning to love this moment now

In other words, the wildness of mind that we experience when we sit quietly noticing our body and breathing for five minutes is the result of everything we’ve been doing before those five minutes. Frequently we discover that our minds do not rest in radiant contentment for the entire meditation session. Why not? Because we... Continue Reading →

October 10, 2012

Trauma and PTSD collected info, commentary and links

As a social worker and clinician working with “the seriously mentally ill” for many years, I never came upon someone who didn’t have fairly severe traumas in their histories. Yes, I can say those who I encountered who were in that particular labeled segment had a solid 100% rate of trauma in their histories. Mental illness in large part is a reaction to trauma. It's quite simple really. When we start listening to people's stories of pain rather than numbing them out and effectively silencing them with neurotoxic drugs we will start healing them.

October 10, 2012

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