LAST CALL – Online Conference: Therapy on the Wild Side – Depathologizing and Working with “Psychosis” and Extreme States of Consciousness

REPOST: last chance to enroll in this online course. The conference will closing down to new registrations December 31st at Midnight. CEU's are included and folks can use them for this year or next year. Thanks to the work of those who have recovered from extreme states of all sorts and also to those who have assisted them on their journeys, there now exists an ever growing resource of humane and humanizing strategies that can allow us to help folks who often have psych labels in ways that bring all of their uniqueness and personhood into the world – without stigma and without pathologizing. … [click on title to read and view more]

December 27, 2014

I’m an ass, you’re an ass

A friend shared that Anthony DeMello once talked about writing a book called, "You're an ass, I'm an ass." So I looked it up and found an article from which I've excerpted the below, because, well, we're all asses and Anthony DeMello speaks to this truth quite beautifully. He also goes on to talk about how one can be with mood states and not get involved with them. Something I've been learning and practicing on this healing journey. One can be witness to what goes on in the body/mind and simply look on interested while being just fine even with what would have been at one time rather destabilizing. There is a fine teaching in the below paragraph. … [click on title to read and view more]

December 27, 2014

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