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Research on Breathwork

Research on non-drug psychedelic modalities, such as conscious connected breathwork (holotropic breathwork) has begun to make clear its benefits and how it works.

Breathwork in the Media

Breathwork appears in the media more often as we learn how it helps emotional healing and even aids psychedelic experience.

Psychotherapy, Growth and Healing: Expanding Frontiers

Updating a website, reorganizing certain aspects of my practice as a therapist, has had me thinking a lot about therapy itself: how it helps and guides, transforms suffering, improves lives. I’ve also been thinking a lot about where some of what I’ll call “expanding frontiers” have shown us where therapy can fall short, as well….and how certain aspects of therapy have been evolving in response.

Psychotherapy, Growth and Healing:  Expanding Frontiers

Psychotherapy, Growth and Healing: Expanding Frontiers

Updating a website, reorganizing certain aspects of my practice as a therapist, has had me thinking a lot about therapy itself: how it helps and guides, transforms suffering, improves lives. I’ve also been thinking a lot about where some of what I’ll call “expanding frontiers” have shown us where therapy can fall short, as well….and how certain aspects of therapy have been evolving in response.

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NAME THE FEELING

NAME THE FEELING

Of all the concerns I hear about food, eating, and weight, emotional overeating clamors the most often for the most attention. Not everyone who struggles with food and weight struggles with emotion-driven overeating    Many, many people, do, though, for a host of...

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WHY “SANE”??

WHY “SANE”??

I’m reflecting today on the choice of the word “sane” in working toward healthier attitudes toward eating and weight.  Why “sane”?   This term rarely pops up, in fact, if you search diet or eating topics. The word seemed right when I first started writing about what I...

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