Monthly Archives: May 2017

revealing the trauma of war


Excellent article in National Geographic about application of very simple, powerful approach of encouraging vets to make and paint masks as a way to express their pain, their woundedness. As one says… “I THOUGHT THIS WAS A JOKE, I wanted … Continue reading

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What does “trauma informed” really mean?


Trauma does not mean “that shit that happened”. Trauma means “wound”. Trauma is the effect left within us. The essential experience of that effect- “trauma” – is being left feeling disempowered and disconnected . That’s the nature of wound. Thorns … Continue reading

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To all the creatures within us…


From: Star Trek The Next Generation Season 5 episode 20 “The Cost of Living” Alexander, son of Worf, on Holodeck 2 enjoying a mudbath with Lwaxana Troi… “To all the creatures within us”       Alexander: “to all the creatures … Continue reading

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The Mad Ones – Jack Kerouac


   

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We Are The Halluci Nation – A Tribe Called Red ft. John Trudell & Northern Voice


We are the human beings The callers of names cannot see us but we can see them We are the Halluci Nation       We Are The Halluci Nation A Tribe Called Red Featuring Northern Voice & John Trudell … Continue reading

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Why did I go Mad?


BBC Horizon documentary aired in UK on 2nd May, 2017. Why Did I Go Mad?   It starts us off in familiar territory, deep within the orthodox belief – the story that that people who hear voices have a thing … Continue reading

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Psychiatry’s Identity Crisis ?


Op-Ed piece in New York Times by Psychiatrist and Psychopharmacologist Richard A. Friedman on the limitations of his own profession’s claims to being the world’s foremost authority and body of knowledge  but yet limits its own understanding of the struggles … Continue reading

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Who teaches us to be normal when we’re a one of a kind?


You, and every one of us is one of a kind. Best estimates have it that there have been about 100 billion humans, each one unique: a one-off. Only you gets to be you. Who teaches us to be normal … Continue reading

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