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Substance over style

Substance over style

Usually, substance over style is a good thing… but not when you’re talking about medicinal substances and lifestyles.

Here we get into the difference between symptom relief and true healing. A symptom is the outward manifestation of a problem – a headache, for example. Many different problems might cause headaches, ranging from simple dehydration through …

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Book review: The Horse Boy, Rupert Isaacson

Book review: The Horse Boy, Rupert Isaacson

subtitle: A Father’s Miraculous Journey to Heal His Son

Travel writer and activist Rupert Isaacson has written for an assortment of publications in diverse parts of the English-speaking world. Married to an academic psychologist and based in Texas, travel was his livelihood as well as his pleasure. But when his son was diagnosed with autism …

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Healing as strange attractor

Healing as strange attractor

  After my post on synchronicities, I shouldn’t be surprised that they continue to crop up. Sure, I just had someone contact me out of the blue professionally that I’d hoped to hear from for a while, but this goes beyond that.

I’ve had a few healing clients lately whose issues mirror my own. …

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Report: Trauma Awareness Presentation, 25 July 2011

Report: Trauma Awareness Presentation, 25 July 2011

 

Quick version: Went to a presentation on Somatic Experiencing, a therapy specifically designed to help heal trauma. It was a taster session rather than a lecture, and included the induction of states of fight, flight, and freeze in volunteers. This induction worked very well, with volunteers reporting noticeable changes in mood state despite there …

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