Monthly Archives: September 2018

Rage

Posted on September 29, 2018 by Joel

Rage Rage is a bodily response. Emotional states arise at the neural level. Without this bodily response, there is no rage. We don’t think and become enraged. We experience rage in an ancient subcortical brain we have in common with … Continue reading →

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Self-Therapy

Posted on September 26, 2018 by Joel

Self-Therapy Cognitive Therapy and Internal Family Systems are both effective self-therapy. The good thing about self-therapy is you can take what you find effective from each.

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Attention Therapies

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Joel

Attention Therapies Attention Therapies have the power to restore the balance trauma took away from us.  But it is not a quick fix. It takes action more than reading and understanding.

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Compassion for Anger

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Joel

I’ve dealt with ferocious anger – rage – for much of my life. No therapy could sooth the beast. It was that; a beast, a raging monster.

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Mutiple Selves

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Joel

Multiple Selves We are not teacher, policewoman, Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, queer, straight, male, female, weird, Asian, or Black. We are not protector, contemner, lover, hero, wimp, traitor, harasser, judge, killer, prisoner,  geek or tolerant. We are multiple selves.

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Inversion Therapy

Posted on September 9, 2018 by Joel

Contraindications Around 1980 gravity boots were in fashion, inspired by Richard Gere dangling from gravity boots in American Gigolo with Blondie singing Call Me in the background. But then concerns were raised by an American scientist called Dr Goldman that … Continue reading →

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Total Inattention

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Joel

Out of the millions of bits of information our brains process each second, 45 bits give or take are devoted to conscious thought. We can give our total conscious attention to around of one-millionth or 0.000001 of the sensory input … Continue reading →

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Forest Bathing

Posted on September 3, 2018 by Joel

Our phones grab our constant attention, stressing us out in a state of fight/flight/freeze.
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