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I recently had the great pleasure of hosting a Hearing Voices workshop with Ron Coleman and Karen Taylor. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Many people described this as one of the best trainings they had ever attended. Ron's message is inherently uplifting - after all this internationally known educator was once a mental patient given a poor prognosis. But in addition, they offered pragmatic suggestions for how to think about voices and talk to someone who is experiencing them.

There are consequences to being curious and asking questions: real conclusions sometimes are not easy to bear.

What if saving someone requires admitting powerlessness to save anyone? Calling cops may seem wise, but it's no answer to talk of suicide.

Yoga helped me explore and reconnect with the body I’d abandoned and abused for years. My pain and sadness had me living exclusively in my mind, my body nothing more than a battleground for my inner wars. Through yoga and meditation, I slowly began to love myself again, learning to treat myself with care and respect. I felt a greater sense of self-awareness, and a sense of connection to something greater. This was a drastic contrast to the days when I felt as if god had forgotten about me, or ...

Intellectualization is when people use their intellect, their logic, or their abstract reasoning to avoid having to deal with feelings.

People who were failed in important ways as children often grow up with the hope of finding someone who will finally meet all their unmet childhood needs.

To become self-aware, to begin to have a conscious relationship with our internal self, is to begin to break out of all the systems that are unconscious.

As we grow, the traumas we experience become locked into our personalities. Grieving is the process of unlocking those frozen traumas, which is what gives us a chance to change.

People who weren’t traumatized, who don’t split off their feelings in some ways, couldn’t cause the kind of harm that we are causing to each other, to ourselves, and to the planet.

It is common for therapy clients to be healthier than their therapists for two reasons: clients are often humble whereas therapists often are not; and clients are often actively grappling with their feelings whereas many therapists are still stuck in dissociation from theirs.