What Is Freedom?
As often happens via social media, a stimulating quote by Buddhist teacher Ken McLeod found its way into my email box: “What is freedom? It is the moment-by-moment experience of not being run by one’s own reactive mechanisms.”
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Remembering to Forget
As I arc toward the apex of life, I find myself more and more fascinated with the topic of memory. I don’t conjure up names so well, although truth be told, I was never very good at conjuring up names, especially compared with facts.
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Welcome to CSAR
Welcome to CSAR — an educational resource for clinicians interested in learning and deepening their understanding of affect regulation theory …Read More »
Dissociation, Lack of Association, and Multiplicity
Dissociation is a normal and useful capacity of mind. In a basic sense, our abilities to focus attention, to separate …Read More »
“Trauma-Worlds”
If our childhood is emotionally wounding, survival systems are activated in both our minds and bodies. As a result, we …Read More »
Engaging Parts: Getting Unstuck
When trauma processing becomes blocked by defensive-protective “Parts”, the Internal Family Systems Model (IFS) offers a unique perspective and set …Read More »
