If you bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, then that which is within you will destroy you. The Gnostic Gospels

It is human to have needs.  To eat, to be kept warm and dry, to grow and develop at a pace that is suited to our own natural rhythm, to be touched by loving hands, to find stimulation from our environment, just to name a few.  In fact, these are some of the basic needs of the infant.  And they’re normal.  [...]

  “Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it. Let me not crave in anxious fear to be saved, but hope for the patience to win my freedom.” Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet/Saint

“The best way out is always through.”  Robert Frost Ever wondered if there is anything you can do to grow out of the psychological conditions labelled ‘addict’ and ‘trauma survivor’?  Well, there are.  Eventhough each carry the burden of feeling trapped in a world of unending pain and suffering, each also hold the potential for [...]

We are designed to separate things into dualities:  this and that, black and white, up and down, good and bad, pain and pleasure, etc.  This is the dualistic mind’s way of seeing.  It sees in opposites as it gazes within to the interior relm, and as it gazes outward to the physical world around us.  This is the perceptual place [...]

Before we talk about what you can do about addiction, let’s be sure its addiction we’re talking about.  Using the dependence on a substance as an example, a behaviour qualifies as an addiction if it meets three or more of the following criteria over a 12 month period: Tolerance:  Either taking more to achieve the same effect, or taking the [...]

What is trauma?  We hear the word bandied about in the mental health community or at 12 step meetings, but what is trauma anyway?  Simply put, it’s someone’s subjective experience of a disturbing life event.  It overwhelms a person’s ability to cope and leaves them feeling as if they’ll be harmed by someone, or that they’ll loose their mind.  You [...]

Have you ever experienced resistance to what it is you really want?  What you know will be good for you and the forward movement of your life?  I have, and hope I’m coming out of it now . . . that is the resistance to the development of this site.  For months I’ve been able to do nothing more than [...]

Dr. Christine Caldwell, a somatic therapist, writes in her insightful book “Getting Our Bodies Back” that ‘Our mind is analogous to a storehouse full of seeds.’ The seeds hold the potential for all of the feelings, opinions and beliefs that the human being might experience. While we carry the seed of hatred for example, we [...]

At the heart of healing is an experience. It is the experience of being willing and able to be in the moment with your feelings. No matter how awful or repulsive or spectacular they may be, to allow yourself to stay there and feel what is there to be felt. Of course you know as [...]