The Taproot Therapy Podcast - https://www.GetTherapyBirmingham.com
Hosted by Joel Blackstock and Alice Hawley, the Taproot therapy podcasts discusses trauma and depth psychology and the implications of psychology on art and design. We dabble in neuroscience, brain based medicine, Jungian psychology, and various modes of artistic expression and healing. ------ Based in Birmingham Alabama, Taproot Therapy Collective is the premiere providers of therapy for severe and complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety and depression. We provide EMDR, brainspotting, ETT, somatic, and, jungian therapy as well as QEEG, brain mapping and neurostimulation. Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/ The resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
Episodes
Monday Apr 08, 2024
👨⚕️James Waites on Physician and Healthcare Burnout
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Monday Apr 08, 2024
Schedule with James here: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/james-waites-counselling-for-mds-physician-burnout/
See James on Psychology Today: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/james-david-waites-hoover-al/1279130
In this podcast episode, we sit down with James Waites, a Birmingham-based mental health professional who specializes in helping physicians, healthcare workers, and executives overcome burnout and complex trauma. James shares his unique perspective on the challenges faced by these professionals and offers practical strategies for improving mental well-being and resilience.
Our conversation with James Waites delves into the systemic issues within the healthcare industry that contribute to burnout and compassion fatigue among medical professionals, including excessive paperwork, insurance hurdles, and bureaucratic red tape.
Throughout the episode, James explains his unique approach to helping clients cope with burnout. He emphasizes the importance of recognizing and processing symptoms, redefining passion, setting healthy boundaries, and redirecting energy. The discussion also touches on the complex underlying factors that often contribute to high achievement and burnout, such as childhood trauma, ADHD, and complex PTSD.
James shares his plans to incorporate cutting-edge techniques like brain spotting and systemic trauma therapy into his practice to better serve his clients. The conversation also explores the challenges of treating children in dysfunctional family systems, the role of spirituality in therapy, and the subjective elements of psychology that are crucial but difficult to quantify.
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The Toll of High-Stress Careers:
James discusses the immense pressure that physicians and executives face in their demanding roles. He highlights how long hours, complex responsibilities, and the need to anticipate and analyze complex systems can lead to burnout, fatigue, and mental health challenges. James shares stories from his experience working with clients across various sectors of healthcare and business administration, providing insight into the unique struggles they face.
A Holistic Approach to Care:
James outlines his dual-pronged approach to helping clients combat burnout and improve overall well-being. He explains how he combines evidence-based mental health interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices, with practical solutions tailored to the specific contexts of medicine and business operations. James emphasizes the importance of addressing systemic factors that contribute to burnout, in addition to providing individual support and symptom management.
Trauma-Informed Care for Complex Cases:
The conversation delves into James's extensive training and experience in treating complex trauma and dissociative disorders. He discusses how unresolved traumatic experiences can manifest in dissociative symptoms, even among high-powered executives and healthcare professionals. James explains his trauma-informed approach, which includes creating a safe, validating space for patients to process traumatic memories and develop internal communication and collaboration between dissociated parts.
Serving the Birmingham Community:
As a Birmingham native and graduate of the University of Alabama, James has been dedicated to serving the local community's mental health needs since 2015. He shares his passion for helping young adults, couples, academics, physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers overcome complex trauma and combat burnout. James reflects on his experience working with med students, residents, social workers, and front-line staff at UAB Hospital, and how this has shaped his compassionate, client-centered approach.
The podcast episode concludes with James offering practical advice for listeners who may be struggling with burnout or complex trauma. He emphasizes the importance of seeking support, prioritizing self-care, and advocating for systemic changes in the workplace. James encourages listeners to reach out for help and take steps towards improving their mental well-being and overall quality of life.
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Saturday Apr 06, 2024
⚚ Wounding the Healer with Brittainy Lindsey
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
Saturday Apr 06, 2024
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We Talk with with Brittainy Lindsey, a former therapist turned mental health writer, about the systemic issues plaguing the mental healthcare industry. They discuss the challenges faced by therapists, from inadequate training and lack of mentorship to exploitative practices and unsustainable working conditions. Brittany shares her experiences and insights on how these problems impact both therapists and patients, and offers ideas for potential solutions. Joel also shares his own efforts to create a more equitable and sustainable model for mental health practices through his collectively-owned clinic, Taproot Therapy. They explore the importance of empowering therapists, fostering collaboration, and staying curious about innovative treatment approaches like brain-based therapies. While acknowledging the darkness in the industry, Brittany emphasizes the need for hope and the potential for positive change if mental health professionals can unite and advocate for better systems. She encourages listeners to stay passionate and keep shining a light on the fixable problems in mental healthcare.
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#MentalHealthcare #TherapistBurnout #SystemicIssues #InnovativeTherapies #BrainBasedTherapy #EmpoweringTherapists #CollectivelyOwned #SustainablePractices #MentalHealthAdvocacy #TherapistTraining #Mentorship #EthicalPractice #HopeForChange #UniteForMentalHealth #TaprootTherapyPodcast Chapter Markers: 00:00:00 Intro 00:02:27 Brittany's background as a therapist 00:09:11 Challenges for early career therapists 00:18:30 Flaws in the mental healthcare system 00:30:32 Therapist exploitation and burnout 00:40:46 Innovative therapy approaches 00:44:53 Taproot Therapy's collective ownership model 00:52:56 Unethical practices and lack of oversight 00:57:57 The need for curiosity and collaboration 01:00:20 Brittany's hopes for the mental health field 01:04:04 Encouraging the next generation of therapists
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Taproot Therapy Collective Podcast Promo
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
Saturday Mar 30, 2024
This is an clip from our Cults and Conspiracy Theories series that is only uploaded so that podcast libraries, like Spotify and iTunes, can use a clip of the podcast trailer.
For more info on the podcast visit: https://gettherapybirmingham.com
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
☯️Cults, Conspiracies, and the Quest for Meaning: A Psychological Perspective
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
The episode emphasizes the importance of addressing systemic issues that contribute to the rise of cults and conspiracy theories, rather than simply dismissing adherents as crazy or stupid. By understanding the psychological inevitability of these phenomena, we can work towards creating a society that fosters authentic growth and actualization. 🌱
Cults replace authenticity with false promises, exploiting members' time, sexuality, and resources 🎭
Conspiracy movements provide a false sense of agency and empowerment, driving people to take action based on unverified beliefs 🕵️♂️
Charismatic cult leaders often exhibit symptoms of temporal lobe epilepsy, such as hyper-religiosity, hypergraphia, and altered sexual behavior 🧠
Cults and conspiracy theories thrive when society fails to provide pathways to self-actualization, economic stability, and a hopeful future 📉
Intuition and the unconscious play a significant role in the appeal of these movements, as people seek meaning and purpose beyond the rational mind 🔮
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Monday Mar 25, 2024
🛕James Maffie on Aztec Philosophy, Mythology and Metaphysics
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Monday Mar 25, 2024
Read More of Dr. Maffie's work on Aztec Culture Here: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/interview-with-james-maffie-on-aztec-philosophy-mythology-metaphysics/
Watch The video Interview Here: https://youtu.be/v01RnqA-yHk
Dr. James Maffie, author of "Aztec Philosophy," shared his insights into the complex and fascinating world of Aztec metaphysics. Dr. Maffie explained that the Aztec worldview centers around the concept of "teotl," a constant energy in motion that permeates all aspects of the universe. This energy manifests in three primary patterns: "olin" (bouncing, oscillating motion), "malinalli" (spiraling, twisting motion), and "nepantla" (back-and-forth, weaving motion).
These patterns are evident in various facets of Aztec culture, from art and architecture to rituals and social interactions. Dr. Maffie emphasized that understanding these fundamental concepts is crucial to grasping the Aztec perspective on the interconnectedness of all things.
One of the key points discussed in the interview was the role of sacrifice in Aztec culture. Dr. Maffie clarified that sacrifice was not merely a means of appeasing the gods, but rather a way for the Aztecs to participate in the cyclical process of life and death. This understanding of sacrifice as a necessary part of the cosmic balance sheds light on the Aztec worldview and their relationship with the divine.
Dr. Maffie also touched on the importance of spoken words and the use of psychotropic substances in Aztec spiritual practices. The Aztecs believed in the power of language to transmit life energy and communicate with divine forces. Additionally, the use of substances such as peyote and Jameson weed facilitated oracular conversations with the gods, allowing the Aztecs to seek guidance and enlist the cooperation of other-than-human persons in their endeavors.
Throughout the interview, Dr. Maffie provided a wealth of information on Aztec philosophy, dispelling misconceptions and offering a nuanced understanding of their worldview. He also shared details about his upcoming works, which will explore topics such as the Aztec skull rack as a cosmic maize field and the living nature of images in Aztec codices.
This interview serves as an excellent introduction to the complex and often misunderstood world of Aztec philosophy. Dr. Maffie's expertise and engaging explanations make the subject accessible to a wide audience, inviting readers to delve deeper into this fascinating aspect of Mesoamerican culture.
#AztecPhilosophy #JamesMaffie #Teotl #AztecMetaphysics #Olin #Malinalli #Nepantla #AztecCulture #AztecArt #AztecArchitecture #AztecRituals #AztecSacrifice #LifeAndDeath #CosmicBalance #AztecWorldview
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Julian Walker, one of the trio that makes up the Conspirituality Podcast, delves into the intersections of yoga, meditation, psychadelics, psychology, science, and culture, offering a critical lens on the blend of conspiracy theories with spirituality. His background, originating from Zimbabwe and South Africa and transitioning to Los Angeles since 1990, enriches his exploration of New Age spirituality, cult dynamics, and the psychological underpinnings of yoga and meditation practices. Alongside co-hosts Derek Beres and Matthew Remski, Walker dissects the dangerous confluence of New Age cults, wellness frauds, and conspiracy theories through the Conspirituality Podcast, aiming to dismantle the exploitative narratives that merge spiritual beliefs with paranoia.
Julian Walker's Projects and Contributions:
Conspirituality Podcast: Co-hosted with Derek Beres and Matthew Remski, this platform critiques the merger of conspiracy theories with spirituality, focusing on its impact on public health and the exploitation of spiritual beliefs. The podcast is a blend of journalism, cult research, and philosophical skepticism aimed at understanding and addressing the cultic dynamics within the yoga, wellness, and new spirituality realms. Conspirituality Podcast
Writing: Walker is an avid writer, contributing to platforms like Elephant Journal and Medium. His articles delve into cults and gurus, spiritual bypassing, the neuroscience behind yoga practices, and the impact of quantum pseudoscience in New Age circles. His thoughtful explorations contribute significantly to the discourse on spirituality and wellness. Julian Walker on Medium
Yoga and Teacher Training: Beyond his critical work, Walker is deeply involved in the practical aspects of yoga and meditation. He conducts yoga classes and teacher training programs in Los Angeles, embodying the practices he often scrutinizes in his writings and discussions. This hands-on experience enriches his critiques with practical insights into yoga and meditation.
Bodywork and Dance Facilitation: Walker extends his expertise to bodywork and ecstatic dance, offering a holistic approach to wellness that integrates physical movement with psychological and spiritual health. His Dance Tribe events in Los Angeles are a testament to his commitment to exploring the healing aspects of movement and dance.
Explore Julian Walker's Work:
Conspirituality Podcast - A comprehensive exploration of the nexus between conspiracy theories and spirituality.
Julian Walker on Medium - Articles and essays on cult dynamics, New Age spirituality, and the science of yoga and meditation.
Freedom Becomes You - Walker's personal project focusing on the intersections of yoga, science, and personal growth.
The art work behind Mr. Walker was made by Benjamin Cziller @ https://www.saatchiart.com/cziller
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Monday Feb 26, 2024
🎭🕯️Understanding Cult Dynamics with Dr. Janja Lalich
Monday Feb 26, 2024
Monday Feb 26, 2024
We dive deep into the world of cults, charismatic leadership, and the psychology of influence and control with renowned expert Dr. Janja Lalich. Dr. Lalich, a professor emerita of sociology and a celebrated author, shares her invaluable insights drawn from decades of research. We explore the mechanisms that cults use to attract and retain members, the impact on individuals, and the process of recovery for those who leave. Whether you're a student of psychology, a survivor of coercive control, or simply fascinated by the complexities of social groups, this episode offers profound insights into the human condition.
About Our Guest:
Dr. Janja Lalich is a globally recognized authority on cultic studies and high-control groups. With a rich academic background and personal experience in a high-control group, she brings a unique perspective to her research and writing. She has authored and co-authored several seminal books on cults, including Cults in Our Midst and Escaping Utopia, focusing on the structure, tactics, and psychology of coercive groups. Her work extends beyond academic circles, providing support and resources for survivors and their families.
In This Episode, You'll Learn:
The definition and characteristics of a cult.
How charismatic leaders use psychological manipulation.
The process of indoctrination and its effects on members.
Strategies for recovery and support for ex-members.
Dr. Lalich's journey from a cult member to a leading expert.
Resources Mentioned:
Dr. Janja Lalich's Official Website
Dr. Lalich's Books on Amazon
Recovery Resources for Ex-Cult Members
Connect with Dr. Janja Lalich:
Twitter: @DrJanjaLalich
LinkedIn: Dr. Janja Lalich
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Monday Jan 22, 2024
🪷🧘Interview With Matthew Remski of the Conspirituality Podcast
Monday Jan 22, 2024
Monday Jan 22, 2024
The term 'cult' often conjures sensationalist imagery and extreme behavior. However, a closer examination reveals a more complex relationship between cults, capitalism, and societal norms. This article delves into this interconnection, highlighting the need for a more nuanced understanding of cults beyond their sensationalist portrayal.
The Cult-Capitalism Nexus
The rise of figures like Keith Raniere of NXIVM has drawn public attention to cults. However, the fascination with such figures often overshadows similar practices in mainstream capitalism, exemplified by figures like Jeff Bezos. The cultish behaviors in corporations and the glorification of billionaire CEOs reflect a concentrated, localized form of capitalism, challenging the distinct boundary between cults and corporate culture. Cults often attract individuals in marginalized and vulnerable circumstances. Rather than addressing the societal failures contributing to these vulnerabilities, such as inadequate social services, the sensationalism around cults tends to ridicule and stigmatize their members. This approach diverts attention from the systemic issues at play, including the deep-seated inequalities perpetuated by capitalist structures.
The Role of Media and True Crime
The portrayal of cults in media and true crime documentaries often parallels the narrative strategies employed in cop dramas, reinforcing certain stereotypes and ignoring the broader context. This trend reflects a cultural tendency to oversimplify complex social phenomena, ignoring the underlying economic and power dynamics. The methods employed by cult leaders like Raniere are not significantly different from those used by some corporate leaders. This similarity suggests that the techniques of control and exploitation in cults are derived from the worst aspects of predatory capitalism. Such parallels necessitate a reevaluation of how society perceives and addresses the concept of cults.
The discourse around cults often fails to address the deeper issues of power dynamics and economic exploitation inherent in our societal structures. By focusing on sensationalist aspects, we overlook the ways in which cult-like behaviors are embedded within and reflective of broader capitalist practices. A more critical and nuanced understanding of cults can shed light on these intertwined societal issues.
Today we delve deep into the fascinating intersections of spirituality, wellness, politics, cults and conspiracy theories. Today, we're exploring the intriguing world of Matthew Remski.' Matthew, a former yoga teacher turned cult dynamics researcher, has been at the forefront of unmasking the often hidden connections between spiritual practices and conspiracy theories. In this episode, we'll dive into Matthew's journey, his insights into how spiritual communities can become breeding grounds for conspiracy theories, and his efforts to promote critical thinking and psychological safety in these spaces.
Check Out The Conspirituality Podcast: https://www.conspirituality.net/
Check out Matthew's Site: Check Out Matthew's Podcast: https://matthewremski.com/wordpress/
Hashtags: #Conspirituality #SpiritualWellness #Cults #YogaCommunity #CriticalThinking #SpiritualJourney #ConspiracyTheories #WellnessCulture #Mindfulness #PsychologicalSafety #SpiritualInsights #CultResearch #TrueCrime #SpiritualPractices #MentalHealthAwareness
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Monday Jan 15, 2024
☯️Interview with Mollie Adler of The Back From the Borderline Podcast
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Welcome to the latest episode of our podcast, where we dive deep into the stories and insights of fascinating individuals from all walks of life. Today, we are thrilled to have with us a truly remarkable guest, Mollie Adler from the podcast #BackFromTheBorderline and #NightNightBitch . Mollie is known for her groundbreaking work in exposing the hidden traumas caused by negligence in medical, psychological and economic systems that we need to examine. She has the freedom to say things that practicing therapists cannot and a source of inspiration for many people because of her honesty about these forces in her own life. We so much appreciate her coming on to speak with us.
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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Carolyn's Site : https://www.carolynrobistow.net/meetcarolyn
Carolyn's Podcast: https://www.carolynrobistow.net/brainunblocked
Meet Carolyn Robistow, the life coach transforming lives for overachievers struggling to control their drinking. From her college days of budget-friendly 12 packs to her sophisticated wine-loving phase, Carolyn's journey with alcohol has been a rollercoaster of self-discovery.
🤔 Facing the hard questions like "Am I an alcoholic?" Carolyn navigated the gray areas of drinking. Despite her discipline in other areas of life, alcohol remained a challenge. Not an everyday drinker, but definitely not living her best life.
🚫 Carolyn's turning point came after multiple attempts to quit, including online courses and facing the harsh realities of her relationship with alcohol. Her breakthrough? A mental health therapist exploring Brainspotting.
🧠 Discover how Brainspotting, a technique for addressing the neuroscience behind compulsions, transformed Carolyn's approach to drinking. She's now helping others with her 3-pillar framework combining Brainspotting setups, education, and daily practice.
🎧 Tune in to learn about rewiring neural pathways, overcoming the fear of a sober life, and harnessing self-control. Carolyn's story is a testament to the power of informed decision-making and understanding our brain's response to alcohol.
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🎧 Tune in for an inspiring episode that's more than just a sober story – it's about reclaiming control and living your best life! 🌟🎤👏🏼
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Monday Dec 04, 2023
Monday Dec 04, 2023
Join me for a discussion with Dr. Peter T Dunlap about politics projection and how to save the future with psychology.
Welcome to our podcast, where today's special guest is Peter T. Dunlap, a remarkable psychologist with a unique blend of private and political practice experience. Raised by a psychologically aware mother and a father who was a liberal legislator in California, Peter has seamlessly integrated these diverse influences into his work.
Peter's journey in psychology spans over three decades, beginning in 1990. His expertise lies in helping individuals discover meaning in their personal and professional lives, navigate relational challenges, and embark on a journey towards self-improvement. He is the acclaimed author of "Awakening our Faith in the Future: The Advent of Psychological Liberalism" (Routledge, 2008), among numerous other scholarly articles, book chapters, and contributions to Tikkun magazine.
Dedicated to fostering emotional intelligence within communities, Peter has been pivotal in founding a distinct Jungian political psychology and cultivating the role of "citizen therapist". His work aims to empower community leaders, activists, psychotherapists, and individuals eager to strengthen their civic engagement through both individual and group settings. By extending emotional intelligence to a public sphere, Peter's approach seeks to transform interpersonal dynamics and celebrate the diversity of values in our society.
At the intersection of Jungian psychology and political practice, Peter has made significant contributions to international Jungian communities, serving on boards like the International Association of Jungian Studies (IAJS) and the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies (JSSS), and as a guest editor for the Journal for Jungian Scholarly Studies. His commitment to group transformative practice has been a highlight at numerous Jungian conferences, fostering conscious group formation and exploration.
In addition to his broad contributions to the field, Peter leads a weekly "Hope and Leadership" group for progressive activists and community leaders, offering workshops and seminars focused on psychological leadership.
For those interested in diving deeper into his work, visit petertdunlap.com.
Now, let's delve into an enriching conversation with Peter T. Dunlap, a visionary blending psychology, leadership, and community engagement to enrich our shared human experience.
#Psychology #PoliticalPsychology #JungianStudies #EmotionalIntelligence #CommunityLeadership #Psychotherapy #CitizenTherapist #GroupTherapy #JungianPsychology #MentalHealth #Activism #CivicEngagement #LeadershipDevelopment #PersonalGrowth #SocialChange #PublicEmotionalIntelligence #ConflictResolution #SelfImprovement #PoliticalActivism #CommunityBuilding #PsychologicalInsights #JungianAnalysis #HopeAndLeadership #EmotionFocusedTherapy #SystemicChange #Psychotherapist #ThoughtLeadership #CommunityEngagement #PeterTDunlap #AwakeningFaithInTheFuture
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Monday Nov 27, 2023
Samuel reached out to me as a therapist in the same world as Taproot to have a conversation about therapy and we had it on the air. We talk about Brainspotting, trauma, Emotional Transformation Therapy, Meditation, Mysticism, Jung and the past and future of therapy.
🔊 Join us in this enlightening episode as we sit down with Samuel Blanchette, a therapist in the field of trauma therapy. Samuel brings a trauma-informed and humanistic approach to his practice, emphasizing the uniqueness of each individual's journey. With his rich experience working in diverse environments and with hundreds of people, Samuel has developed a deep understanding that one method doesn't fit all. In our conversation, we delve into the evolution of trauma therapy, exploring various modalities and how they can be tailored to individual needs.
🌱 Samuel passionately believes in validating every person's experience and pain, and he shares his insights on how he walks alongside his clients on their path to healing. Whether you're a professional in the field, someone dealing with personal trauma, or just interested in the human psyche, this episode offers valuable perspectives on the history and future of trauma therapy.
#TraumaTherapy #MentalHealthAwareness #HealingJourney #HumanisticApproach #IndividualizedCare #TherapyInsights #MentalWellness #TraumaInformed #PsychologyPodcast #HolisticHealing #SelfDiscovery #EmotionalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #TherapeuticInnovation #EmpathyAndHealing
Transcript: TranscriptThis editable transcript was computer generated and might contain errors. People can also change the text after it was created.Joel Blackstock: All right, this is the Taproot therapy podcast. I'm Joel Blackstock, and I'm here with a man that truly needs. No one introduction.Joel Blackstock: Philosopher king, rock star of published author World traveler collector of rare artifacts as a tearing magic specialist now, so it's Samuel Blanchette I'm saying that there's another social worker who reached out to me and we know we were both kind of in a similar world and a ton of the stuff that I've done. I think it's just because our website is a little bit more visible his people see ideas and they're kind of looking for people in their world, we've talked a little bit about how academic psychology is going in a different direction and clinical practice because the market is wanting things that are not having in the hospitals by and large which is not a great place for the profession to be in and anyway, I have a lot of these conversations on the phone with people that want to connect and they're fun and they're interesting and I learned a bunch of stuff and so decided I'm just gonna start doing that on the podcast one because I'm out of time. All I do isJoel Blackstock: therapy podcast and play with my kids and sleep. And so yeah Samuel's a really interesting nice guy who reached out and wanted to connect and I'm sure we'll have a fascinating conversation. thank you so much for being here. Can you introduce your actual biography?Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, so aside from my arcanium of esoteric skills and my treasure seeking and…Joel Blackstock: know I should come up with as a terror more like Antiquated titles like alienist,…Samuel Blanchette: so forth.Joel Blackstock: nothing. It's like Haberdasher.Samuel Blanchette: sure, right theJoel Blackstock: Yeah farrierSamuel Blanchette: All of those things in the progression of learning how to be a human, Yeah. So yes, I'm a random human being that reached down to you because I saw that you had found a really kind of lovely way of integrating some of the modern neurological approaches with some of the cool more philosophical approaches what I don't think there's really a distinction there, but just to make discrimination between as…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: if we could do that to ourselves, which we try Yes,…Joel Blackstock: romantic distinction only reallySamuel Blanchette: and so, I am a master's level clinician with licensed Associates clinician. So I'm working towards my ultimate end goal of whatever that is.Joel Blackstock: just here because here the sea is the terminal license.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, so I'm in Arizona and it is different across all the states and my degree is actually in counseling, so I'm not coming from the social working Realm.Joel Blackstock: Okay, when you said LCS because here it's ALC LPC and then search is counselor and then social worker is lgsw which they just changed to lmsw and then it turns into Li csw which used to be LCSW that in our board and it's infinite wisdom. there's some others aroundSamuel Blanchette: Absolutely. I'm really appreciate some of the states that are working on doing kind of interstate compacts as far as that goes. I think that's kind of a really cool. rightJoel Blackstock: the counselors are so much better at it than the social workers and I think there's pros and Constable both ones, but overall it seems like the social workers have a little bit less self-esteem or something. I don't know what it is and the boards seem like we're during the pandemic at the counseling boards are getting together in the clinical boards are making everything APA. It's like making everything so much easier for the license to practice across state lines and meet this need in a mental health crisis and our board is making it harder and being like actually there's these hoops because we have to make extra sure which I mean there's maybe ways to do it but it's just like they keep raising the number of Ethics hours because they're like, people keep sleeping with their patients. So maybe that they're doing that because they haven't heard it for eight hours instead of four and it's that. don't think no one told him not to do it as the problem.Samuel Blanchette: That's right very much like introduction to you want to be a mental health professional number one,…Joel Blackstock: They're gonna be so bored that we're gonna build a little Beetle of the entire profession.Samuel Blanchette: please don't.Joel Blackstock: No, I mean it's like you need to kind of catch that and the education level and…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: the support level and the licensure level which for some reason it's only we'll just tack on the cease and that'll fix these problems retroactively which supposed to be the system's professional social workers are supposed to understand the system and that actually works not as we wish it did, the stereotype is the lpc's kind of in a vacuum being like symptomology, which is always true and the social worker is more like person in an environment food racism culture, But for some reason those are not the ones that they make the loss about social work.Samuel Blanchette: And that's an interesting point that you make about coming into this field. Right and I think to some degree. it seems that human beings have an interest in how their minds psychees Souls work right how this thing functions because we all experience suffering and so we try to create method Of managing whatever that is, right, and I think that that's such an interesting point about this creating education of so many hours to try and inform you of information and there's such a huge difference between the experience of sitting with somebody in an intensely emotional space and the theoretical constructs around sitting with somebody in emotional space.00:05:00Joel Blackstock: And everybody who doesn't do that seems to want to tell you how to the theatrist that has never been in therapy and doesn't practice therapy and…Samuel Blanchette: All right, andJoel Blackstock: the insurance board and the state legislature have all these opinions about things. They don't teach children or do counseling.Samuel Blanchette: Yes, all of those pieces and I think I mean you used to really I mean explicit example, right this idea of they keep on engaging in relationships with these, people that's outside of the framework and the boundaries of the holding container, right? And at the same time…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: if you don't know how to work with the energy of human connection, right like intensity of that on the levels that are necessary to some degree to healingJoel Blackstock: for multiple types of people you kind of got to be a chameleon. You need to be what they need. what you want?Samuel Blanchette: Absolutely and to stay with that is interesting. I think that's a huge part of what our field does we create mental constructs in order to feel safe when we're journey into the unknown and I brain spotting. I think that the author makes a really interesting point about this quadrillion Connections in the human brain,…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: and I think that that's lovely to be aware of because I think one thing I've noticed as a struggle is They boards and other Trends try to dictate. What is the right way of doing therapy and boy, I've had so many internal conflicts orJoel Blackstock: you can do the wrong thing for the right reasons, it's there's some people who use exercises and avoidance, so if they're processing trauma with brain spotting stop exercising, it's not that that's a bad thing to do, but it's like so a lot of times I think when you Put more control at the top level. You're just making providers. Sort of have a different aesthetic about doing what they're doing. Anyway, it doesn't actually practice that much if anything it makes it worse. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, I think. this idea of having to change the language that you express the thing that you're going to be doing naturally anyway.Joel Blackstock: And the whole profession, I mean, I think that's like why mental health is such a weird spot is it's like because that you see it if you're a social worker and you're working with grants and things so there's all these assumptions baked in to the way the rules are written that there's services that exist and…Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Samuel Blanchette: Mm-hmmJoel Blackstock: connections and things that have not been around for 30 years. So half of it is ticking boxes that are fake just because it used to work this certain way and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: and it's not quite a catch 22, but we need to word for that. and one of the things is it's like psychiatrists know how to do therapy. It's just this assumption because I know…Samuel Blanchette: Joel Blackstock: how to read research about CBT and it's like no we used to think that because it used to be true because they used to do therapy and they used to be in there therapy. And now the vast majority of them are not but for some reason they're the one that calls me, from an insurance panel that I'm no longer in it says you should be able to treat the associative identity disorder in Greece sessions with CBT or drugs are mandated and a more therapy will be paid for and also brain spotting is inJoel Blackstock: Based and neither is EMDR and neither is some other long list of stuff. She wanted me to it's like hey,…Samuel Blanchette: reasonJoel Blackstock: have you done this? Like I asked would be I left the panel and…Samuel Blanchette: Why?Joel Blackstock: then they were fine, and now they call me every year and ask me to go back in I never will but they're like I don't know does it was your dream to be the member of a 15 person, fake referral insurance thing. That's local to this ZIP code. what are you doing? Why are you telling me how to do therapy? You've never done itJoel Blackstock: I don't know.Samuel Blanchette: yeah, that divide is a curious one because on something in some cases it actually Bears really Pleasant fruit, right some of the really cool neurological studies and some of the neurocy stuff what I really love about it in all honesty is it gives Credence to a lot of historical and traditional methods of working with people and now we can just label it with scientific terms and say it's good an example that I really like so memory reconsolidation I think is so lovely. That's really been encouraging to me this idea that there is a way that the brain changes things damentally permanently emotional, Love that. It's very encouraging to me. And in my process of doing therapy, I deeply fell in love with Gestalt therapy at the very beginning of things. I've done the book Eagle hunger and aggression and I'm like, my goodness. I really love the depth of this thing.00:10:00Joel Blackstock: Rich pearls he was an interesting guy.Samuel Blanchette: He was I think a lot of and we have videos and we use that to interpret a certain total system of philosophical approach, which it is what it is and that's what people do but his wife Laura pearls contributed so much good men all these different thinkers into this really really lovely existential approach to their and yeah.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: One I think it's downfall was kind of two things too. It's like one he was kind of a little bit more of a showman. He was probably kind of like me he was like you're not I want to show you how well this thing works by demonstrating it. And so people thought it was too productive.Samuel Blanchette: Sure.Joel Blackstock: No not reductive. They thought it was too much ofJoel Blackstock: I don't know just some kind of a trade technique or something and said he was showing them part of the system and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: then also east and west coast Charlotte and I got in a fight. I mean it's like the middle of California people were like this should be therapy and…Samuel Blanchette: allJoel Blackstock: the other people it should be religion, I guess you're therapy modalities successful. If it accidentally forms like a religion / cult, I don't know.Samuel Blanchette: A philosophical life approach and yeah, I think that you're absolutely right though about that thing and I think the challenge that happens the unfortunate thing is when certain people take things to their extreme, especially when part of the whole thing is trying to keep ideas alive to some degree lettingJoel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: let me show you something cool. Right and I think what that winds up doing though is especially in the case of stole therapy. here's this beautiful in a theoretical field Theory dialogical approach. I inval phenomenology relationship in between bracketing all these brilliant really lovely existential Concepts kind of like flowing into this approach and then we wind up with I do empty chair work therefore I'm using it.Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: and it's likeSamuel Blanchette: that's saying all young and therapy is active imagination. Right? it's like let's take a technique.Joel Blackstock: We don't even give actual unions that are trained. It's like a ton of time. especially I think it's more of an American Union thing where they just sanitize it so much and it's just therapy plus Jesus or it's like therapy. You can bring to church or it's like a sand trade but there's not I mean it happens with all modalities same thing you're talking about. It's like people mistake the technique Or the lens of the modality…Samuel Blanchette: footJoel Blackstock: which is how you're understanding a person which is how the conceptualization is so much more important than what you're doing in the room,Samuel Blanchette: I agree so fully I think and the hard part is how do you describe being a human right like this? It's so the potentially new ones.Joel Blackstock: The problem is psychology there,Samuel Blanchette: again, and how do we turn this into something that creates transformative change and I think again out of all the things that sort of young jungian slash Youngs love of alchemical ideas and that framework of thought I think it's so beautiful because it's at least language that's not dependent on time. Right? So it's the taoists or ayurvedic Traditions or these different things. They're all drawing from this concept of transformation. And now my experience especially when we're looking at things like Parts work and stuff. Everybody's labeled these things in their own way with their own conceptual lens. Yeah.Joel Blackstock: Especially ifs is him just putting which I don't dislike. I guess if I had a giant treatment center and I needed to Train everybody to be able to do the best work with it …Samuel Blanchette: absolutely.Joel Blackstock: but he put Yugi and archetypes together with dished out therapies experience will component. and maybe some DBT skills, but That's what it is, and the language of it is kind of dogmanic. You…Samuel Blanchette: It yeah.Joel Blackstock: I think it's so much easier to just say protective part. You kind of feel how this one's a physical protective part. That one's kind of unconscious one or whatever then getting in a fight with a client about is something like a firefighter or…Samuel Blanchette: Sure.Joel Blackstock: protector what I personally like, I mean, it's people who do it do great work. But you…Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Joel Blackstock: I'm not as wild about the language of All that also they think it's family therapy every time you say ifs people think your family there.Samuel Blanchette: Sure, what do I have to bring my mother in? the mother lives in you,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah. He's already here. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: whether that's an object or at least he's in the space part of your phenomenological field like how we're doing this.00:15:00Joel Blackstock: what did you work with Gestalt, but what are the kind of broad Strokes of your practice now or the stuff that youSamuel Blanchette: So, I'm not an official anything right? Because unfortunately there's a pace wall that inhibits people from becoming certified in anything and I understand that to some degree because people want purity of systems possibly or they don't want to be misrepresented or whatever that means and that's okay and I understand that, I think unfortunately that again diminishes the free exchange of information and ideas and then you wind up with like you said this dogma's that have to approach existence in a very fixed pattern and that's neurotic traditionally anyway,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: so I would say the collection of things right so I do really like primarily because it makes me feel confident and science is important to people and myself So this sort of neuro biological piece, especially poly Bagel Theory. I really like that and again all of those are still constructs built on our current understanding of medicine and biology, but I really like holy legal Theory. I like like I said memory reconsolidation, I like the idea that there are fundamental processes that mammals use to make adaptation. And that just makes sense to me and then sort of more of that the Gestalt oriented humanistic type of thing. So kind of like nazloe kind of existential stuff. And then I did a real deep dive into Parts work and things becauseSamuel Blanchette: if you've ever sat with anyone whether you're a therapist or otherwise there is a transition of Consciousness between aspects of themselves. However, you want to Define that right. And people have been exploring that from the beginning of time. In fact, I movement and all of these things have been deeply announced analyzed by taoists and in ancient Arabia Arabia and all these different kinds of things people have been playing with human observation and how we do what we do but one thing that constantly shows up and I met it first in Gestalt work right doing empty chair. It's like, my What is this? We have two fundamentally different states of Consciousness and he's Consciousness to define the whole being right? It's not a thought process, but it's a total representation of Self in the world right with environment. and it's just so fascinating there and I reallySamuel Blanchette: fell in love with that and started strongly believing in it in a sense. HoweverSamuel Blanchette: that's an interesting space to go because it's very unknown right and so I was looking for framework to understand this and I first got some deep framework in Psycho synthesis, right assagioli really going into all these details about sub personalities and the alchemical process of transmutation of self and then I started kind of playing around from there and it's interesting to see now what my work kind of shows up as after I've been exposed to all these different methods voice dialogue, internal family systems. All these different ones. There's a gentleman John run.Joel Blackstock: there is voice dialogue have purchase out there. I mean, it seems like there's not a ton of places still doing it much.Samuel Blanchette: So I had to look to find all of these things right ego States is super fun enjoyable for folks…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: because it's derives from a currently utilized processes that are popular.Joel Blackstock: That's like The Last Remnant of transactional analysis. It's still out there.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, no, absolutely. Yeah this which all have roots in this Gestalt thing which I'll have roots in, psychoanalytic processes,…Joel Blackstock: Mm-hmmSamuel Blanchette: right ego and superego are parts, I mean to find them how you will There's something right. yeah, and…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: I think finding out how to work with parts and Also, my own process has looked like working with parts and also realizing more of this kind of again this field oriented idea or kind of this Buddhist idea of this local non-duality. So it's like parts and no parts can both mutually exist. And what's meaningful is how it applies in the field of Exchange in that moment with the person at least that's where I'm sitting at. I'm kind of wondering for you for yourself. How have you integrated that do you stick kind of sharply to a process of the way of working with parts or how have you integrated this because you have a lot of really cool neurobiological techniques, And then you have this other stuff too and kind of like, I'm very curious about that.Joel Blackstock: But I mean, I think probably what you're responding to is when I'm looking at the way that a lot of these models are younger pearls or whatever. I…00:20:00Samuel Blanchette: Yeah. Yes.Joel Blackstock: they're written in phenomenological language. It's like this is just how this feels and so they're kind of intuitive which is the reason why a lot of people they won't die. A lot of people are called back to them and a lot of reasons why they're never going to be institutionally. there is that it's not an objective thing.Samuel Blanchette: MondayJoel Blackstock: It's kind of an intuitive concept about don't you understand this part of your own experience, if you're chasing the academic thing and you don't understand that part of your experience, that's not going to speak to you, because it's not real.Samuel Blanchette: yes.Joel Blackstock: You can't see it take you to touch it. This is about subjective kind of felt State and in the parts of self that you can feel and work with and I mean frankly I think to do certain kinds of trauma therapy, you have to bury a certain amount of trauma that you've worked through or…Samuel Blanchette: yeah youJoel Blackstock: you don't really understand it.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, but then now there's neurology and neurobiology that is able to explain or we can make guesses. I'll still get a nasty email from a clinical psychology student. But we can make guesses about what these parts of the brain do and…Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: that's always been my interest and so it's like because I was always frustrated with just how bad Academia is it admitting that it's wrong? it's the same people publishing these papers that are like you doesn't know unconscious isn't real and this is whatever and…Samuel Blanchette: Behaviorism it's hard.Joel Blackstock: trauma is trendy. So the same guys like riding a paper. That's like there's tertiary secondary and primary levels of consciousness, but the tertiary levels are only, symbolic function and show up in the body and you're like what it dude like you're wrong. just right. I'm sorry, that's the paper that you should be published. What?Joel Blackstock: So my thing is going back and saying look. Yeah these philosophies are Perennial meaning they pop up independently because there's people sort of feeling themself and discovering the same thing about how we work and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: but then a lot of times, I don't really have a friend anywhere because I'm saying no, I'm not just in this club. I'm trying to say that all these clubs share functions and that neither one of them is they all have pros and cons. They all have drawbacks people don't like that.Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Joel Blackstock: They like me for the extent of me saying what you're doing is interesting and here's a cool way to articulate it and here's some techniques there. They like that and then I say, okay, but here's where the limitations are and where you can pivot if no don't do that, and that's the, people kind of like the stuff online until I won't even get a chance to respond to the email. Sometimes it's just like this is great. and this is great. I used it. wait, you said this thing that's threatening the way that I practice so I don't think you understand like I haven't said yeah I don't know. Yeah, I don't know if that answers.Joel Blackstock: that video that I have where I'm talking about I think the breakdown of these models is how experiential they are and how cognitive they are. And so the person who comes in and says that they want existential therapy and they're like, I didn't know my PhD in Sartre and I use that existential therapy and I'm called to whatever I'm like in a bag my hand. I'm like, that's the last thing that you need, it's not that other people are hell,…Samuel Blanchette: it's right because thisJoel Blackstock: it's that you are in hell because you feel that in here. Don't need to the same thing with the person who comes in that's just totally in their feeling State and their feelings all that's real and they want to dump all this emotion. I mean really what you need is to kind of get out outside of that and see a bigger picture and have some kind of, spiritual or philosophical ones to analyze your life, which young says that in his book that the kind of therapy you come and…Samuel Blanchette: I loveJoel Blackstock: wanting is usually the last one that you need.Samuel Blanchette: And it's that young and function of opposites, right or…Joel Blackstock: To tension of opposites. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: this enabled from Yeah, there's Yeah, we want to come in this way. So it's likely that the other side of that is probably where we're gonna get the most yields. However, how do we…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: how do we get you to feel comfortable walking into that space because we have to build structure and some different scaffolding to step into the Known, right. So if I am loaded with a certain perspective it's easy for me to walk in that world until I dip my toe in the reality that I don't perceive then it's like my goodness and then we get all of the functions of adaptation that threatens my self-concept and do all this lovelyness.Joel Blackstock: I mean that's if you just listen to conflict or politics or whatever. It's half of the fights that people get into or where they become the most reactive. It's just where somebody saying. Hey, my behavior doesn't line up with myself image and you're pointing that out to me, …Samuel Blanchette: what?Joel Blackstock: which is one of the reasons why I can do therapy, but probably not anything else very well is that I don't quit doing that ever. if you say something I'm gonna take it at face value and…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: because of that, people come into therapy. There's kind of a buy into that process of but it makes you Miserable, person to be around at Thanksgiving. maybe we'll drop this episode then.Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: What was in a hospital? I couldn't turn it off. I mean they would have this thing where they're like, hey, we really want to continuously improve and we want to know what the problem is and we want your all input and we want you to be honest and then I'd be like, then here's the thing that you could do easily. It would save you money and it would make reduce burnout and it would reduce errors and the downside is it might threaten somebody Ego or we would just have to admit that there's a problem which is what you're asking. no, don't say that. That's not what you're supposed to. Okay fine, then you don't want what you said. don't do this meeting give me three hours of my life every six months or Say I want you to give me your honest feedback. Where it's what I mean as long as you're saying it I'm gonna continue to take it at face value, even though I know you don't mean what you're saying and…00:25:00Samuel Blanchette: And that's the phenomenological approach right?Joel Blackstock: I'm not gonna stop doing that. I mean that's all that I'm gonna die.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: You literally cannot know anything other than what is happening in the immediate now, It's like everything else is extrapolation or some sort of projection or something. So it's like This is what you mean, right and they're like no. Okay. So this is not…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: what you mean, but this is what you're saying. Is that correct? And I love that this memory reconsolidation like the fundamental initial tenant is just creating this explicit awareness and then a juxtaposition of so this and this yes, and that'sJoel Blackstock: Can you talk a little bit about memory reconsolidation for people who may not be familiar the technique there and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, absolutely.Joel Blackstock: the assumption?Samuel Blanchette: Let's see. If Bruce Ecker was a physicist before he started getting into the whole therapy situation. And I love that people have passions because passions create they take people down. Holes that lead to information I would never find because my passion doesn't lean in that direction. And soSamuel Blanchette: they really did a lot of work looking at this idea of how we fundamentally change our memories right? There was this idea up until the early 2000s or so that once it's in long term memory storage. You're stuck with it. And even we have in a vendor coax book like that body keeps the score. It's like no once It's in there you're stuck and then that leads right that necessitates creating processes where we're doing a counter development of a strategy, So we're looking for extinction, which is let me build up this neurological pathway that's contrary to this one so they can battle it down and hopefully my pretty fun little cortex wins down against my limbic system and my sub cortical areas when I'm threatened and we can do that through some desensitization and building up strategies, right which is fine and that also building strategies is how we learn grow and develop, however,Samuel Blanchette: The fundamental sense of emotional pain when I access a historical piece of my existence. That's not very fun. And that's what drives most of us to seek change. right and…Joel Blackstock: Samuel Blanchette: and this idea is really lovely because They were going off this model. you can't erase long-term memory once it's in it's in but whoa. All sorts of cool experiments they're using mice and then they're putting in certain chemicals that inhibit the consolidation of certain kinds of neurological processes and bad Bang. Now we're not having the long-term memory affect them on an emotional level, but they still theoretically hold on to that information in a chronological fashion, right? SoJoel Blackstock: Yeah, and anything like with brain science because there are billions of connections. It's gonna be reduced to some kind of metaphor. I mean, there's no way to talk about it without being reductive unless you're super computer, …Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: but I mean that's another thing a lot of the research is showing is the pair sympathetic and the sympathetic nervous system are out of sync. They're not acting in the same way which I mean to me with brain spotting and a lot of the pupil dilation stuff that we do you can't fake those reactions,…Samuel Blanchette: yeah. No.Joel Blackstock: when your people's like doing this you're having a brain bleed or you're maybe brain spotting works and it's doing something that's neurologically reproducible with a reducible effect. Even if it's not past a zillion randomize controlled trials and isn't 30 years old yet, something I can recreate in the room.Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: I hear the same thing from the patient. It cures the same thing. that's Health Science works, even it starts here, you research it later and there are a lot of studies on it now being more effective and embr and some other things but the parent sympathetic and sympathe.Joel Blackstock: Nervous system fighting each other one dilates the eye. It has kind of a sphincter like muscle that tightens and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, right.Joel Blackstock: the other one has a pulling muscle that opens the eye so I hit my mic and that when you usually don't drive with your foot on the gas and the brake, you…Samuel Blanchette: Right. Yeah.Joel Blackstock: but what I can do is hit those to be intention, with color light frequency eye position, all the different techniques that we have now eye movement sometimes until they Sink in my body is assuming the same thing that the front of my brain is assuming about…Samuel Blanchette: I love that and…Joel Blackstock: how the world works not something that is 15 years old, traumatic.Samuel Blanchette: and this even speaks to Peter Levine the oscillation between felt senses right even going back to earlier stuff of self-observation.00:30:00Joel Blackstock: Yeah, yeah.Samuel Blanchette: We're looking at ben Eugene gendlin in this focusing. here's a felt sense. I experience it. I look I put words on it and then there's this curious thing. I'm speaking back to this memory reconsolidation piece, which I love because it's non-theoretical right? it is theoretical in the scientific sense, but it's trans theoretical in the sense that it doesn't belong to anybody nobody can I think they say this is my method pay me my Right.Joel Blackstock: You can't really consolidate memory only I can do that.Samuel Blanchette: I have it all it's mine. Let baby thousands of dollars to learn my strategy which is fine and…Joel Blackstock: Yeah, that is kind of even the models that I like.Samuel Blanchette: I understand.Joel Blackstock: It's kind of off-putting or they're like look you use this word. Then you're whatever. It's like man. Come on. why are you doing thisSamuel Blanchette: we have to and some because it's marking territory and it's validating philosophical processes and trying to differentiate that from something else and all the things. So what I love though, and I'm very curious especially with brain spotting and various other eye movement type things whether it's NLP and the different ways of accessing or looking in the visual field or any of these things or even just staying with the micro Tremors and neurogenic tremoring that happens during certain kinds of activation all the good stuff, The lovely thing about So the concept here for the memory reconsolidation is that It is theoretically not and sometimes that feels kind of powerful but it is the way of creating.Samuel Blanchette: Forever emotional change and the way that it works is memory is Consolidated during event of high emotion, right? So boom.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: I have stored that in my system. However, we do that. We have no clue, we have always ideas on how memory works but it's way too integrative to just be reduced to neurons. It's memories stored with emotion, In order to change that the process is really really simple, but it's also challenging because the process is this I need to activate that as a felt experience that memory with the emotional component.Samuel Blanchette: Once I activate that memory and it felt experience. I need to create an explicit juxtaposition as the word that they use something that fundamentally on a felt sense disconfirms. The fact that that is that be whether I'm using an eye thing and I'm in a safe space or whatever that is and what that does is it unlocks all of the patterns of how that's held because now just like an animal right? I have an explicit fact that contradicts the emotional content. And once that opens then we have a process of five hour window where if we continually repeat the Discerning event one consolidates, the evidence says that what should happen is that should no longer elicit anything you can call it back up and it will be a historical. Piece of information but it will not be emotional charge to it.Joel Blackstock: It sounds like a lifespan integration is doing that too. I'm not training that one. I've read the book and one of my supervision candidates is really into it but it sounds similar and…Samuel Blanchette: with youJoel Blackstock: that you're kind of taking these things that are felt experiential pretty strong activating memories, but they are contradictory and then ramming them all through so quickly that you can't continue to have all of that stored semantic memory be on challenged and then the brain let's go.Samuel Blanchette: And the timeline and lifespan stuff is really interesting because we look at NLP they've been using timelines and things for a long long time.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: And this is one of the other things that I struggle with as people will take ideas that are explicitly described in older therapeutic modalities. They will not give credit to the line of thinking and…Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: they will need it to their own process. That is one of the things thatJoel Blackstock: Then sometimes they don't even know when they're doing it. I mean you can kind of tell when people know that they're doing it when people don't like Joseph Campbell bringing young to America.Samuel Blanchette: but that'sJoel Blackstock: I mean, I feel like he knew what he was stealing and he was a union he didn't give credit to it. You…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: he said that but yeah, there's other people where I think they've just heard something and then they start doing something and then they decide they can I mean like that.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah. Yeah, that's fair what I really loved though about this process. So this idea memory recall it somatically in a felt way. Juxtaposition of experience something that completely explicitly confronts that create the unlock which then allows new information to be encoded in the memory to go away and what's really kind of need is though. This is very dependent on each situation. So you can remove the emotional charge of a certain thing. But if it has other connections or other parts are attached to it each of those would also need to go through this process of reconciliate memory reconsolidation in order to get the full effect of when I think of that in this context it no longer elicits that strong necessary emotional survival response.00:35:00Samuel Blanchette: and what I like about it is because it's kind of like It just a concept neurologically. It means that every therapeutic modality could theoretically work and if they worked it means they follow this natural biological process. and if…Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: what I really love about Concepts like that is that it gives a lot of freedom back to the clinician to trust their artfulness their own and…Joel Blackstock: their intuition Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: They're intuition. Yeah, so it says This is generally how it works. Even if you was probably Bagel Theory I think was also beautiful for that. This is generally how it works. Now knowing that within the confines of the biology let's use our creative playful curiosity to generate new outcomes.Joel Blackstock: Yeah and that's the thing that you can't teach, it's like I love it if there's an interview candidate that fights with me because they understand something and they believe it and they know something they're not just trying to figure out what somebody wants from them. Those are the clinicians that take years to get better the ones that have coming from the hospital or something and it's almost like they were trained not to think for themself and…Samuel Blanchette: WeJoel Blackstock: justify everything they do in this thing and the question that you can't fake and interview. if you're early in your therapy education remember this one, I mean just absorb a ton of podcasts and a ton of current material on that and then go in with a fresh perspective like this, I think it's headed this is where it's not because you can't fake that question. I mean when we do Executive coaching and people are talking about hiring always just ask them the last thing that they learned and…Samuel Blanchette: Joel Blackstock: independently that they apply to their job if somebody's telling you about what they learned in college 20 years ago. Don't hire them if they're like, I kind of think this and I think this way even if it'sJoel Blackstock: And don't have to be therapy you can't teach curiosity but it's pretty good indicator of one,…Samuel Blanchette: No.Joel Blackstock: self-awareness a conscious relationship with intuition and a drive to be better. You…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: Which is what you want in the room,Samuel Blanchette: I like that with that phrase. He said curiosity can't be taught and that other thing because it can't be taught. It means that it's a biological function. ventral vagal thing. It's like and everyone uses different languaging higher self. Maybe the self or these things but the neat thing isJoel Blackstock: I think it can be healed. I'm not saying that some people are born with it. Some people it's genetic. I'm saying that your relationship to your trauma and your life and your sense of self that is a really good indicator of whether or not those things are in a good place, because it's like a ton of people. That's why EI infj types are so dangerous. you get Jesus you get Jesus and…Samuel Blanchette: yes.Joel Blackstock: you also get healer because you're intuition is so strong in order to see what people want to hear and then get them they're doing their own language you go somewhere which can make you really capable is a therapist but also as a leader and a some are grifters but a lot of the people who are doing bad work like it's not that they're Meaning to it's that they're mistaking trauma for intuition because they come from the same part of the brain and they're actually having this trauma response, but it feels like the spirits in me and I'm giving the sermon,Joel Blackstock: I don't know and the early days of charismatic Christianity in the old west. I mean, it really was wild that it was just up in the mountains everybody with the dopamine disorder needs. They've got the calling now, let's we people would scream and…Samuel Blanchette: and it's our says yeah.Joel Blackstock: cry and see things and lay on the ground and buttoned up Victorian society was like this slaps man. this is the coolest thing like and they were feeling something like that.Samuel Blanchette: Just profound.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, that's But you want your intention to be conscious is the point,Samuel Blanchette: I like that and I think that being able to and even speaking to that piece. Right? The neat thing is that humans when given a safe container and given permission to be appropriately expressive and to feel especially with others because we do all this really cool neurological connection, this mirror neurons in the distribution of emotional tension, whether that's electromagnetic through whatever that is is we're doing all that fun stuff or whatever but The neat thing is when we have a community of people that are coming together and ideally with full intention and understanding of what they're doing and then they create a space for exchange and support Those are the most beautiful healing environments the Tim notes right this container andJoel Blackstock: Yeah. Yeah, that was a title will summon's book about the spirituality of urban planning a guy. He was on our podcast earlier. He's a really nice guy. He may know.00:40:00Samuel Blanchette: Joel Blackstock: Know the tenemos is the name.Samuel Blanchette: Mm- guys and the thing I think. the disempowering part of information right and some respects I think Theoretically it's neutered right? It's just information and we have the freedom to exit connect with that. But another battle that I thought one of my own internal oppressors or tell it what you will right. It's like Trying to do things the right way, and…Joel Blackstock: in It reduces anxiety…Samuel Blanchette: I've been in enough in.Joel Blackstock: if there's a right way, and…Samuel Blanchette: Absolutely.Joel Blackstock: and therapy gets to a point where somebody's being like. No, I know that you don't know. I know it's up to me, but I'm worried that I'm doing me wrong, and it is this thing that it's such a silly idea or a silly statement, but it's a real thing and that we have this insecurity about if we're doing us right, I mean I had somebody one time that told me okay. Yeah, you're saying that if I get rid of this then I'll sit down I'll know exactly who I am and I'll be able to connect with people in a way that's good. but what if I do that and I don't like you that guy is I started laughing. It's just like what am I supposed to say and what if I like myself and the self that I am right now is Rebels right itself that it could be in the future of all my potential.Samuel Blanchette: What?Joel Blackstock: It's like but it's so human. It makes a Sense, it's not like that person. I'm not making fun of them just saying we all do that right?Samuel Blanchette: Yes. I don't like that guy,…Joel Blackstock: I just never heard it saidSamuel Blanchette: but I don't like the authentic me.Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: and I think the challenge with all of these structured ways of trying to get it right and somebody saying I have the way and all of the stuff the things that I think get hamstrung by those things in particular are the power of our own and impressive creativity the beauty of our intuition and then the other thing is this and I think this is something that earlier young and some of the shelters and folks the aesthetic value of beauty and felt sense like congruence with beauty. I don't think there's any objective way of measuring what feels congruent right good and beautiful. So let meJoel Blackstock: That's We read a lot about architecture and I've talked to a couple I'm supposed to be on the Australian Institute of architectures podcast a little bit later on but that's one of the things is it's an archetypal thing and not a lot of people apply Young's theories visually, I mean some artists sort of did that in the 70s and he generally did not like that art because he thought there was supposed to be a descent and then a return you were just supposed to be enamored with the unconscious and become a psycho not you're supposed to solve your ego and…Samuel Blanchette: That's it. Yeah.Joel Blackstock: then come back and have learned something from it and have been transformed but also go back to being how were you. a better version of thatSamuel Blanchette: Right here was Journey piece.Joel Blackstock: But yeah architecture is getting in touch or filmmaking, so many of those things. I mean, that's what you're saying is it's finding the beautiful isn't just I came up with it. It's almost like intuition is like a radio wave that you tune into and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: channel this thing or you don't I mean and you can say that you could use spiritual language about that or you could use second language of just this kind of deep genetic programming that we're getting in touch with but only you can run your experiment to the end. your choice is you do that or Are you ignore it?Samuel Blanchette: And it's again that called The Adventure. I like that kind of languaging around this thing. and there's a beautiful book by Piero. Ferrucci I guess is his name and he's a psychosynthesis, right and…Joel Blackstock: What is that?Samuel Blanchette: he has I'm psychosynthesis.Joel Blackstock: I'm not familiar with them.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, so psychosynthesis was near the end time of Freud's process. I said you only was a psycho analyst and he worked closely with young as well. I'm down in Italy and he created a beautiful beautiful model. He was informed by theosophy, which is a really cool amalgam of a lot of different spiritual conceptsky in these types of folks brought all that in andJoel Blackstock: a lot of those flying around Vienna around that point.Samuel Blanchette: yeah. Yeah during that time period right there's a lot of this really.Joel Blackstock: If Freud is kind of more of an inevitability than we give him credit for me. There's other people or they're not giving credit more than we think we give him too much credit, it's kind of like Columbus you have enough ships going around there. Somebody's gonna bump into it and realize you can't sell the India if his strip sink somebody else does it and you look at what's going on in Vienna with clamps everybody, people were going to apply this idea that maybe we are not only…Samuel Blanchette: Joel Blackstock: what we think maybe there's forces beneath the surface. to medicine to psychology and They probably would have done it a little bit better than Freud, the random guy, or gentler.Samuel Blanchette: right and unfortunately, he had to create a modality that he could sell to a community which believed in the world in a certain kind of way, some of the earlier ideas and…Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: even the archetypical imagery that comes in this Thanos and Eros and all theseJoel Blackstock: Which he abandons? He puts the Thanatos back,00:45:00Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, this existential requirement of this death thing, right and then even libidinal energy. I love that whether it goes into Wilhelm Reich and talking about the embodied memory system how the unconscious is the body or otherwise, I think that there's a lot of really neat stuff there and then of course, you can see a lot of this cultural overlay and then we had all this beautiful stuff pre that time even like mentalism and these different kinds of Hypnotic type Concepts that use a lot of alchemical concept and ways of defining the world, right? The world is MIND in using the Emerald Tablet and these different theorems of alchemical transformation, right? SoSamuel Blanchette: Yeah, I think really set a really cool space and gave words and language to it to start playing around with it. And I love that people dissented explicitly. I think if anything right that is what mental health is about is you've created a construct and I love that you've done that. Thank you so much for putting words out there. I disagree on some of these levels and that's important. Because if we all collude we definitely uphold the delusion.Joel Blackstock: Yeah. Yeah,…Samuel Blanchette: Joel Blackstock: and I think one of my things is always been like I don't want to just get trained in any kind of therapy and then be the expert I want to be in that kind of therapies of patient before I do it with another patient because there's of learning and then there's the AHA of feeling and…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: So I'm a huge advocate. I mean, sometimes people are kind of sheepish and they've love come here for a while and it's like you don't need therapy anymore. You're fine. if you're unsettled something come back but you should go try something else, …Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Joel Blackstock: you've probably heard my perspective you've heard the way that I thinkJoel Blackstock: And you've internalized what you need to internalize you've filtered out what you don't and somebody else is gonna tell you something different, and…Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Joel Blackstock: that there's gonna be useful too. So I mean Union analysis was a totally different experience for me than CBT was totally different experience been kind of a more psychodynamic…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: but you learned that language and it's why I can wear that hat now, if you just try and learn all of it intellectually and…Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: then you're like, I read all the books. That's why you don't know how to apply it and you end up just picking the one you like the most, and only doing that because you haven't really been in it as a patient enough to know how to do it as a provider. I think.Samuel Blanchette: I agree with that. I think I've struggled with that too. Because again, there's this price wall That's constructed in order to access certain types of approaches. Right unfortunately…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: if I label it with something I can charge you another $50, right? It's likeJoel Blackstock: Yeah, and that's when you're saying that people are coming up with these new models and then changing the name and not giving credit half the time. it's the institute's fault that is charging you $200 to have this on your website…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: because we copy right at a phrase,Samuel Blanchette: right that makes sense. Yeah having to create language in order to not be copyright thatJoel Blackstock: I mean there's to my movement therapies that are combinations of ett. And LP and bsp that we worked on and we're kind of doing with other therapists and…Samuel Blanchette: yes. Yes.Joel Blackstock: we've tried our spouses and it's interesting but it's like, where do you go with that? If I call that ett? I got to talk to Dr. Vazquez. If I call it brain spawning I got to talk to if I call it Fusion I got talked about what do I want to do? I don't really want to be the guy going to conferences being like here's a new thing, for 10 years. I just don't want to or do you just make up a new thing and then have everybody be like, so you just hold this out of nowhere and it's not evidence-based at all. I don't…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: andSamuel Blanchette: I hear that. Yeah, for instance we have sensory motorcycle therapy. We have hack Homie. We have all these really kind of nifty things right where people are labeling their personal approach to and oftentimes rooted in a lot of these traditional things. So we have Vegeta therapy oriented will help Reiki and stuff like whether people want to buy into it or not or the outcome of Wilhelm writes life or any of those things like you you're probably deriving some of your breath methodology your observational awareness and phenomenology from Old School body armoring right through by energetics likeJoel Blackstock: yeah, yeah. right didn't do himself any favors either. I mean he was trying to shoot down UFOs with orgasm energy by the end of his life and thatSamuel Blanchette: right This person like it rain clouds and things and that's yeah.Joel Blackstock: And…Samuel Blanchette: Look, who knows.Joel Blackstock: the FBI just took all the equipment too, which even for the time was kind of an overreaction. I mean, he really made some people mad or…Samuel Blanchette: meJoel Blackstock: maybe they just wanted all the orgasm energy for themselves. I don't know I mean, but I think it's funny too is like any Psychotherapy lens like what you're talking about that kind of perspective when you go so far into it and then you extrapolate it becomes a cosmology, again analysis is…Samuel Blanchette: It has to be.Joel Blackstock: wow, there's archetypes. So what does that mean and Freud's but I'm right, going nuts kind of was somebody making a free and mesophysics like a classical Freudian metaphysics and then being it's sexuality is the energy ever under everything maybe sexuality is also the energy of the cosmos and atoms are respond to orgasms or what00:50:00Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, So this Oregon energy which is taking from the idea of the original liberal energy libidinal energy is just life energy, which is sexual or otherwise, it's projection whatever that is, but it lives right?Joel Blackstock: You Freud usually applied it in the public sex more than other places.Samuel Blanchette: Yes. Yes he did.Joel Blackstock: Okay.Samuel Blanchette: However, the neat thing though is let's say if we change our lens and we look at Contract Traditions from Tibet or India right now. We have this idea of the interplay of this duality of relationship between energies of masculine and feminine when they use sexual language to describe the fundamental workings between polarities, right and so in the alchemical marriage,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: So this idea of creating a total self using this sort of languaging soJoel Blackstock: I was gonna say the resolution chemical marriage but I mean even just it's access kind of, a big forest and part of our Humanity but it also is just a pretty obvious metaphor when you make metaphors, even like I mean, there's Psalms in the Bible that you're talking about the love of God you loving God is the same of the love of the man or…Samuel Blanchette: Right. Yeah.Joel Blackstock: woman, it's like…Samuel Blanchette: absoluteJoel Blackstock: what does that mean? That's out now or they're like, somebody invents like a clock and then they're like, God is a watchmaker and then somebody in advance architecture and they're like God is an architect and then somebody invents an AI and they're like, we're in a simulation, it's just the easiest way, Yeah, yeah.Samuel Blanchette: That's true. It's not too far removed to create metaphor that incorporates that I think though the nice thing that when we're starting the neat thing about that is when we connected these qualities like psychic qualities or libidinal qualities or whatever to the body. what we can do at that point though is now we have some language to explore the phenomenology of my felt experience. thats ment. How does excitement work? I experience it in this fashion in this way. And then now we're like, how does my body produce energy, which Need to engage with this world and…Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: then we have all the kind of ways that we create creative adaptation to all the things and that's another thing that I really love from sort of this memory reconsolidation. I stuff coherence therapy. Is this Bruce Ecker and Lauren Holly'sJoel Blackstock: I am familiar. It's like somebody trying to make a solution focused brief treatment of psychoanalysis. Just kind of interesting. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: it's interesting because it's following the memory reconsolidation thing. So theoretically right and I have always loved this and it always baffled me that a moment of explicit trauma can indelibly burn in a learned experience for life. If that's true using kind of this Duality process. It mustJoel Blackstock: it lets the brain is thinking about it in a different way and almost religious or spiritual way. why other moments are not being experienced all the time, but traumatic moments are so that's telling you that that's a different kind of memory.Samuel Blanchette: So this idea that it does this but my wondering is this right and I've always wondered this from the very beginning of every time the first somatic oriented therapy, I think it was sensory. Yeah. Anyway, Peter Levine. I was looking at Peter he's working.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: I was like, this is curious. Is that if a memory?Joel Blackstock: Did this kind of experiencing is over here?Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, not experience. So if a memory can be created so powerfully in a moment. it should be able to be uncreated in a moment, right it justJoel Blackstock: Which you making contact with the somatic memory in a way that is not reach traumatizing,Samuel Blanchette: in and it always kind of tickled my mind to think that because if it can be created it should be unable to be uncreated in that kind of way. Now we've talked about not wanting to be traumatized people and kind of titrating those experiences which I understand. howeverJoel Blackstock: which was certain things you can't do, it's why you have to be able to take appropriate risks at a certain point but there's not always a way to eat some of those memories in this bite sides way that some of the models are designed to do,Samuel Blanchette: And I think you're right in my experience working with people and in my own kind of self-processes I go through that there are some memories that must be experienced as a Gestalt the whole fixed experience must be digested in the moment it notJoel Blackstock: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: Brain spawning does that if you have somebody who's pushing enough to take you all the way in I mean, I've said, I'm kind of pressed everyone that I've ever talked to that has had a bad experience with brain spotting the provided in look at the people at all. They didn't really map the trauma at all. They were just like What do you feel here in the person was nothing but it pulled everything up at once which is kind of spiritually profound and interesting to have this two three gay process where you're expering all these things mastering them and at the end, memory comes back. Are you kind of realize what it was your processing either yourself or working with therapist, ET which is newer thing that Is trained it.Samuel Blanchette: yeah, using the light.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, it can bring up incredibly specific parts.00:55:00Joel Blackstock: Surgically, and I loved brain spotting. I still love it. So but it's not appropriate for everything. I don't think any one thing is and it's wild with EtG. There was one of the eye movements we had the color frequency and the person said can you do something with acid reflux and as I mean it's not really how it works. But I got what was supposed to be for kind of throat lungs breathing like top neck that area which is kind of a blue green color a certain flicker rate whatever and he was looking at it and then immediately started remembering when she was eating as a kid and she was shame.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: And then her whole stomach kind of shutting down and then this whole thing just came up, but it wasn't this whole memory about your whole relationship with this child like everything it was this incredible around that one somatic emotional thing in this specific way.Samuel Blanchette: very specific Yeah, and I think that's speaking to this kind of memory reconsolidation thing. that's what that also looks like. It's like every single moment that is created a pattern. It has that creative adoption started because of a reason right so it's like and if we attend to that whether again we're focusing on a Feeling whether we're looking at a space in a visual field, whether we're moving our eyes to inhibit our amygdalas whether we're stomping our feet whether we're psycho, whether we're dancing whether we're doing any of the modalities that exist that our human modalities of expression, right whatever we track and whatever we stay with if we were to stay with it. Enough and give language to it. Even if we were doing some just fill in the blank sort of word association stuff. It is likely that all those roads would lead to a story right?Samuel Blanchette: And once the nice thing about knowing what the story is.Joel Blackstock: And sometimes our body remembers it in a way that are the front of our brain can't which is where a bunch of those modalities get stuck. I mean if you're drugged or pass out during an experience, it can be traumatizing that the memory is not written right? It's like a corrupted file on the hard drive where maybe all you're gonna get is the bodies response to it. and that's what you have to go. Through and process it but you're never going to be able to do this stuff because you didn't see it. You didn't perceive it.Samuel Blanchette: right and IJoel Blackstock: Maybe if you're very young the damage is written in a different way kids. Don't make narrative memory until kind of three or four. Yeah and…Samuel Blanchette: right yeah,…Joel Blackstock: a cognite way.Samuel Blanchette: and I think and what I like to is the narrative that we experience doesn't have to be The Experience itself, right so Consciousness accessing something in a way that my total brain can experience…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: which involves language components often, right? When I can conceptualize it, even if it's a theme for instance, I have to not eat because I will be hurt now that doesn't have to have as explicit memory but that's a felt sense that I'm giving words to and once I can hold that with the experience in my conscious awareness now and then I create these moments that contradict Those are the things that unlock those old patterns and you're right we can do that without eliciting that cognitive piece. However, It seems in my experience. At least that that part is very useful for having. I guess a total Gestalt a whole story, right?Joel Blackstock: Yeah, yeah.Samuel Blanchette: The Narrative piece is a really lovely part of me understanding myself in the world. Whereas if I do a purely somatic exercise, let's say I do a holy traffic breathing or I go through something like thing that can be really awesome.Joel Blackstock: .Samuel Blanchette: However, without the right framing I think those things can also be the disempowering. we're attributing it to some other something instead of acknowledging that it's a us thing.Joel Blackstock: Mm-hmmJoel Blackstock: Yeah, even I think that it's not that the narrative is unimportant when you don't remember the Evander it's not able to be perceived. It's that you don't have an intellectual cognitive memory there. It becomes part of a bigger narrative,Samuel Blanchette: Yes.Joel Blackstock: a bigger story and you're still linking it to that but figuring out what happened or who or whatever I mean, even if you do knowing is Colonel Mustard in the green room with the Rope doesn't heal,…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: right nowJoel Blackstock: it's experiencing physically and then going through the crisis having the crisis resolve and then letting my heart and my body feel safety, that the thingSamuel Blanchette: I love that and I love that pattern and I think that animals are such a brilliant exposition of that. we have these systems because they're designed to deal with the world and when we get to a place of completion, I activate my sympathetic responses. they discharge appropriately to create the safety that I need and then I take in the environment of safety, which is a completely different thing and then it allows my body to dissipate or discharge or complete that cycle And the huge part and I think in most of the somatic type work is it never gets finished, It's the unfinished business story, right? It's like I never got to feel like it worked and I never got to know that it's over and I never get to feel safe. So my body's Gonna Keep On generating that.01:00:00Joel Blackstock: What I don't want to admit that and accept that framing because I know that so I shouldn't have to feel that. Is the fight that you get into with the more kind of St. In a sensory thinking type patient?Samuel Blanchette: and I think that's an interesting space And again, you have to move that into that feeling frame, right? It's like Yes, you're right. It is absolutely over and yet here you are in your body is still exhibiting behaviors necessary for that condition to be met. so how do we create an experience now where that can be done right And yeah,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: and I think that's the art of therapy right? it's a very curious thing.Joel Blackstock: it sounds like you're doing amazing work when you're practicing and where you are. I mean you have kind of longer term career plans or what. Do you see yourself?Samuel Blanchette: So I just love doing therapy and I love reading all these things and trying to make sense of because I'm a human in the world trying to make sense of that. The thing that I would love to do at one point, which is something I deeply appreciate what you're doing and there's a lot of people doing this is putting information out for people to have access to it without any paywalls or any kind of things like that.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: I think giving people free access to information so that they can experiment with what works for them. So if I were to create a Fantastical future adventure for myself, right, it would be to continue to learn and use mediums how long hopefully as I feel a little bit more grounded and confident in my own process and just share those things always with the condition of this could or could not be true and please experiment with it within the appropriate context using the appropriate supports that you need in order to achieve those outcomes,…Joel Blackstock: Mmm YeahSamuel Blanchette: .Joel Blackstock: Mmm, I think it would be something that would be down the road if I was doing it, but I'd love for Tapper to be able to host almost like a Dev psychology Library that's free because there's so much stuff that's out there in the common domain or…Samuel Blanchette: mmmJoel Blackstock: that people professors are retiring or whatever and they're just likely to be like, hey, you can have all of my papers and make them available and it's stuff that you can't even get through there. that journal was gone 12 years ago or…Samuel Blanchette: Right. yeah.Joel Blackstock: whatever and even if you pay 600 dollars a month, you still can't read it. But yeah, I'd love to put together something like that. our website or Collective is just kind of we're all trying to we think we can build something that is better together than we can individually and you could cost sharing and everything that goes with that. But yeah, if you're ever interested in working on something that if we could help if I can give you the access to the website to build something on the back end like I don't know some kind of electronic.Joel Blackstock: Anything if that's ever anything they're interested in doing.Samuel Blanchette: Something. Thank you so much for taking some time to kind of explore some Concepts around the therapy. It's lovely to explore and have these conversations and I think It helps kind of flesh out and…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: build some deeper understanding for myself. thank you very much for taking some time with me.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, I mean and I got to pick my daughter up in just a minute. But I've got 15 20 minutes or so. I mean what is there anything else because I don't want to you had reached out and I think initially with some Questions or things you wanted to discuss and I would like to get all that stuff.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: I don't know how much of that was included when we already doneSamuel Blanchette: I think a fair bit was if you're yeah, so we have another about 15 minutes. Is that right? soJoel Blackstock: you call I can try and get in touch with you later. This week. November's The last three months have been just the most wild ever. I mean, but it's coming relatively bounce.Samuel Blanchette: So some things that I wonder that I would like to bring up or explore with the time that we have left. because I'm not officially trained in any of these things.Joel Blackstock: Sure.Samuel Blanchette: And also there's these paywalls to get exposure and therapy through these things.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: Hopefully wind up being the subject of my own experimentation, right? So I apply these things the methods and Concepts to myself as all as possible Right whether it's using brain spotting,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: right and I kind of like feeling that felt sense and associating with that or it's short work or otherwise, So I definitely understand the value of having another person. I think that fundamentally changesJoel Blackstock: You can't always do it. You can always afford it or…Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: there's not somebody local or what. I mean, sometimes the self work is the only option for certain things.Samuel Blanchette: And absolutely. I agree with that. So one thing that I was wondering about and I did some more research and things when I first saw brain spotting said, my goodness. This looks really interesting. I like this idea. And this is also the floor I ran into memory reconsolate.01:05:00Joel Blackstock: It's uses with any kind of therapy too, even cognitive behavioral people like it. I mean, there's somebody in the training usually it's kind of less cognitive providers and somebody he was one of the trainers and one of the things was like, my cognitive therapy. Person those friends fighting and was like, wow and I was listening and she was like, brain spawning does the thing we're cognitive therapy can actually work because the body calms down and then they can learn all this stuff. it's like, wow, that's a neat way to think about Behavior, but that's what my problem with behaviorism is that they think you can change Behavior by talking about it, most times people know what they're supposed to do. They just Do that. Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: right Right, and that's that experimental needing to experience that's experiential therapies that we're in the 1970s when they were doing really good stuff.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: Then we get into these ethical quantities that have created what we have today to some degree,…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: but is what it is that but I've really deeply appreciate living now in that there's so much beautiful. There's a thousand waterfalls pouring into the Zeitgeist right this current space and…Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: if I want to and I'm open to it and I can check my prejudices against certain conceptualizations and methods like a lot of really beautiful stuff.Joel Blackstock: mmmSamuel Blanchette: That's very transformative. so one thing as I was doing these kind of experiments right kind of like playing with that up down using the zxy accesses different kind of like checking different points and…Joel Blackstock: I can do brain sweating on myself at…Samuel Blanchette: moving between different points what I noticed,Joel Blackstock: There's inside and outside window and you get training and outside windows where they're providers. Just looking at people and…Samuel Blanchette: yeah, it'sJoel Blackstock: inside windows when you're trying to see what the person feels and…Samuel Blanchette: yeah.Joel Blackstock: for me so outside window is a lot more effective in my experience because a ton of my patients are such Associated they don't know what they feel anyway, so I don't notice anything there and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: I'm like, no just hang out a minute you're gonna feel it. But when I do brain spotting with my therapist, I'm just like, I don't know. I think I felt something here and she's like and then I'm gone, so sometimes I'm particularly bad at it.Samuel Blanchette: So I'm wondering in your processing so when I did this thing and I'm kind of playing around with this and as I'm holding this space, I'm kind of noticing my natural responses right? Maybe some swallowing maybe some rapid blinking maybe the eyes start to agitate,…Joel Blackstock: workSamuel Blanchette: maybe I start feeling kind of those little neurogenic Tremors that we're getting from this body discharge stuff. And I love that. It makes total sense from a biological standpoint, everything starts with orienting right here everything started with an orienting reflex. That's Front that's just how it is right and so I find this place. I hold that in space right holding that and what I've noticed in my own process as I've been playing with that in certain cases.Samuel Blanchette: I'll start there with a feeling right there's a felt sense. I'm experiencing that I'm with it and then my mind will automatically start populating that with parts. So what I've seen happens is here's My finger is there I'm attending to this and then my finger becomes a part right? So now I'm noticing that there's me a self apart there and then it has dialogue and concept that starts playing out in my mind and then my active other parts are starting to play out there. And if I hold that space my processing right my primary modalities, and otherwise, that's what they like to do. They create a dialogue oriented story because I'm very auditory. And then they'll play that through to a sense of completion.Joel Blackstock: Samuel Blanchette: However, that story wants to kind of close itself up. I'm kind of curious though. and that's what really drew me to this is like because also the other pieces like if you have your eyes closed and you do this as well, right your eyes still move if your eyes closed because that's just what we do to access information and then no linguistic program folks talk about this deck. It's in Dickens and decades ago, right, but I'm kind of curious.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: Is that a normal?Joel Blackstock: They didn't have the neurology though. I'd like the problem is they don't distinguish for training prefrontal Med and sub brand and so that's why it doesn't work. It's like that. I'm moving NLP stuff is neurologically very interesting but your eyes gonna drift there when you're really feeling like you could just look here and lie. So saying constructed audio memories there that's not the best metaphor about…Samuel Blanchette: heSamuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: how the brain works because it can do different things. youSamuel Blanchette: Yeah, this location I think is interesting but they using And discussing the visual field and how track side from different areas of visual.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, yeah.Samuel Blanchette: Super fascinating. I think I'm sort of wondering what's been your experience. You don't have to give any explicit information, but when you've worked with folks and you're doing this brain spotting type methodology. Even fixed points or you kind of like jumping between points or tracking between things or whatever.Samuel Blanchette: Does it often have a narrative component? do people often express to you that they're experiencing an internal story with parts? Do you and there's a whole branch of brainstorms?01:10:00Joel Blackstock: Hard space therapy is fuses. So with brain spawning it's almost becoming part of the training most the trainers will train you and I'm not certified and I've done phase wanted to consult with a lot of people that have done a lot of the different new ones…Samuel Blanchette: and phase 3Joel Blackstock: because there's a lot of Splinter ones now, but it sounds like…Samuel Blanchette: Yep.Joel Blackstock: what you're asking is there a pattern with eye movement from an LP IQs that is relevant with brain spawning or are you saying do people see a story when they hit the eye position?Samuel Blanchette: I think if I were to distill that it would be when people are holding an eye position. Are they accessing a awareness or is it part? inevitably is that ifJoel Blackstock: Sometimes Parts base therapy can get you there. But when you're there with brain spotting, you're so deep in a lot of the time you're losing time I dissociated for 20 minutes when I did the training and I was expecting nothing is EMDR didn't do anything for me. I was like …Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: but I saw it worked for some patients. I was like take some of the things from this training and it was during covid. We're on a screen. It wasn't even a person. I was like, I know how far the thing is away. And I mean, I felt like I just needed to move my head. I was in water kind of and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: I was just silent and if it takes me and not everybody goes in that deeply with processing, but if you doJoel Blackstock: You usually lose time so the person thinks the session was 10 minutes and it's at the end of the hour because it took me 10 minutes to get them to go down. So when you're really deep in it's more about the difference with Etc and brain spawning and EMDR is brain spotting. Most of the processing is not in the room. You're like opening this box and throwing all this stuff from the subbrain up into the midbrain but the front of the brain,…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: hypothetically, I mean don't see many email and say I can't prove that I can't but like you don't even know…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: what you're thinking about for two days. you don't know…Samuel Blanchette: interest.Joel Blackstock: what it is. And you also don't really get to pick what you hit as much I like it…Samuel Blanchette: rightJoel Blackstock: because the processing so much more predictable with the MDR.Joel Blackstock: Very few people do this, but it's still terrible when it happens and it's possible with complex trauma, sometimes somebody would come into process like a car wreck and you do it and they feel great and then they're thanking you and whatever two days later totally decompensate.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: I just remembered this thing from when I was a kid, I'm totally shutting down. I'm totally whatever okay learning process that and…Samuel Blanchette: Yeah.Joel Blackstock: Dad did this thing? Okay, and then you compensate again. but Mom was watching I thought she was my protector now and they can't work and that decompensation just doesn't happen with brains funny in that way.Samuel Blanchette: interestingJoel Blackstock: It's not that do you compensation? I said, it's so predictable. if you'd either doesn't work it's like you can knock the ball over the hill and it's gonna roll down or you can keep knocking the ball up the hill if you didn't get it to pop if you didn't go all the way through it just nothing happens they feel kind of weird but you didn't open it. If you open it then they go all the way through this thing for usually two three days, if you're obsessive if you're compulsively trying to figure out what it is if you're smoking a lot of marijuana if you're drinking a lot alcohol if you're doing anything obsessively you're gonna slow processing down.Joel Blackstock: but it will still work. It's just don't do that because it will make the bad part last longer but your dreams are very weird. Usually they're kind of like letting you know what you're chewing on they're kind of archetypal. They're just weird. They're not normal Dreams A lot of times. There's very photo real sleep moments in it, It's happened for one my patients with and brain spawning or with ET. The processing is five six hours. And it's very specific. You don't have that huge. Thing is that kind of answer your question. So saying is it activating a part or not?Joel Blackstock: You can use Parts work to be okay, I'll use it to be map that defensive part of you. what is your spine want to do and the period person's like you no, really listen, you're feeling this they're big you want to curl up into a ball. I kind of a Bend. Okay you wanting to crop into a ball like you're protecting yourself. Are you covering something up? you don't want to be seen you want to be invisible. Do you want to just train spotting look back into the carpet and disappear in that way.Samuel Blanchette: heJoel Blackstock: You tense you're bracing for impact you're a foot you're gonna be tackle like that's all and interesting information getting them to go into the experience. That would be Parts based and mapping this part and what it somatically is and ideologically what is the world around you feel like if you feel small that means everything around you must be bigger. Do I look intimidating? do you feel smaller than the room? Wait you feel lighter than the room heavier than the room you feel it could be green.Samuel Blanchette: grab itJoel Blackstock: You can feel great that doesn't have to make sense. you could feel VCR static, what is that and then that lets the eye open and you go in,Joel Blackstock: But when you're going in you're never I'm fighting the inner critic. This is what I have to like. It's a pretty deep brain thing. generally there's not much talking.Samuel Blanchette: Yeah, I think that that's useful to kind of hear. I think so in different forms of Parts work, right it covers a lot of different ones. It's just a strategy you're working with somebody in their accessing these things If this were to be in the room here, where would it be now in inherently? They do gay spotting, right? So they will know they will naturally do so the question.01:15:00Joel Blackstock: yeah.Samuel Blanchette: I wonder and this is a philosophical question as it isn't there's no neurobiology to Define it, I wonder whenever we do that we are looking at something that's inside of us that we've projected. So if on a creative construct level we are always looking at something. Right because you can another thing.Joel Blackstock: It's So you're saying is that how the brain works or is that where you're looking to a specific experienceSamuel Blanchette: Where I'm wondering if that's just a normal function of how the brain does this right? So if I find a space right and we have the other examples working with kids, you put a little fluffy top of it or on I mean traditional sand trade therapy right there. I gazing down in their fixating on certain areas.Joel Blackstock: Yeah.Samuel Blanchette: These are just naturally occurring processes that are pre-existent because they're human rights you're working with somebody and then naturally Fixate on a specific location and then they'll just start. HoweverJoel Blackstock: Yeah, what is the thousand yard stare in PTSD at somebody looking at something that isn't there because their eyes going to this memory from past,…Samuel Blanchette: They're looking.Joel Blackstock: Yeah, I mean if I'm understanding your question, I think it's a little bit of both. I mean what David Gran would say the brain spawning guy is that you can't know anything about other brain works. So that's making an assumption and you can't do that. So just get out of the way and let the patient's experience. Thank you somewhere,…Samuel Blanchette: Right, right. Yes.
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
Tuesday Nov 14, 2023
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Special Thanks to Jared Hardy and Cory Rasmussen for joining us to talk about micronutrients. In today's episode, we're thrilled to dive deep into the world of micronutrients and their impact on mental health and chronic inflammation. Joining us are experts from Hardy Nutritionals, a pioneering company at the forefront of nutritional psychiatry. Founded by David L. Hardy, their innovative approach has opened new avenues in treating mood, stress, and anxiety-related disorders. So, whether you're a healthcare professional, someone struggling with mental health issues, or just curious about the power of nutrition, this episode promises to shed light on how micronutrients can transform lives. Stay tuned for an enlightening conversation full of insights, research, and holistic health strategies. Let's get started!
Here are some notable research studies conducted or supported by Hardy Nutritionals: Efficacy and Safety of a Vitamin-Mineral Intervention for Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression in Adults: A Randomised Placebo-Controlled Trial "NoMAD": This study investigated the effects of micronutrients on anxiety and depression symptoms in adults. The results showed significant improvements in the micronutrient group, especially in younger participants, those from lower socioeconomic groups, and those who had previously tried psychiatric medication. Non-Pharmacological Interventions for Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents: This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of non-pharmacological treatments for pediatric ADHD. It concluded that multinutrients, mindfulness, and polyunsaturated fatty acids can be effective secondary treatments in combination with primary treatments or when primary treatments are not suitable. Micronutrients for Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Youth: A Placebo-Controlled Randomized Clinical Trial: This trial focused on the benefits of micronutrients for ADHD and irritability in children. It found that micronutrients were more beneficial than placebo according to clinician ratings, but not according to parent-report ratings. The study highlighted the safety and efficacy of micronutrients for treating ADHD in youth. Do Changes in Blood Nutrient Levels Mediate Treatment Response in Children and Adults With ADHD Consuming a Vitamin-Mineral Supplement?: This study aimed to determine whether changes in serum nutrient levels could mediate the clinical response to a micronutrient intervention for ADHD. It found a weak association between a decrease in ferritin and an increase in copper with a greater likelihood of being identified as an ADHD responder. Multinutrients for the Treatment of Psychiatric Symptoms in Clinical Samples: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials: This meta-analysis reviewed randomized controlled trials of multinutrients for various psychiatric symptoms. The results indicated significant clinical benefits, particularly in ADHD populations, with improvements in global functioning and symptom reduction.
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Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Blue Medicine Journal Podcast
Today, we have the immense pleasure of hosting an extraordinary guest, Dr. Sandra del Castillo. With an illustrious academic background, holding both a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Depth Psychology with a specialization in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, Dr. del Castillo is not just an academic but a true embodiment of the teachings she imparts.
As a teacher, storyteller, and ritual artist, she has traversed the rich cultural landscape of Mexico, living in four different states over fifteen years to connect with her ancestral roots. This profound journey not only inspired her dissertation on the Mexican Day of the Dead but also deepened her understanding of the archetypal wisdom woven into the fabric of Mesoamerican cosmovisions, philosophy, poetry, and mythology. Dr. del Castillo’s work comes at a critical Kairos moment in history, as humanity stands at the precipice of the Sixth Great Extinction.
Her artistry in ritual is a dance with the numinous, each piece a conduit of the soul’s language, offering healing and transformation to both the creator and the witness. With nearly three decades of facilitating ritual in diverse settings—from the classrooms of California and Oregon to the ancient pyramid sites of Mexico—she has honed her craft to perfection.
Dr. del Castillo also offers her wisdom through classes and workshops, including the transformative “The Art of Living Ritual: Re-animating an Ensouled Worldview.” Today, she brings her insights into our studio, sharing reflections and conversations that are not only thought-provoking but soul-stirring.
Her podcast, Blue Medicine Journal, is a treasure trove of Jungian wisdom, dedicated to the re-enchantment of our world. It's a call to awaken from the spell of disenchantment and journey into the blue—the soul realms—where dreams, myth, ritual art, and imagination become vital tools in the face of extinction.
So join us as we sit down with Dr. Sandra del Castillo, a Jungian mentor, ritual artist, dreamer, and the heart behind Blue Medicine Journal,
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Saturday Oct 21, 2023
⚰️🧠💀The Psychology of Death with Kearney Smith RN and Alice Hawley LPC
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Saturday Oct 21, 2023
Wishing everyone a spooky Halloween! 🎃👻🕷️🕸️Welcome to 'Beyond the Veil: Exploring the Psychology of Death' 🎙️. In this episode of the depth psychology podcast, we delve into the complex intersections of death, spirituality, and society. Join us as we navigate the profound concepts of mortality, drawing insights from Hinduism and Buddhism, examining modern burial practices, scrutinizing the impact of capitalism, all while drawing unexpected parallels from the cyberpunk world of 'Cyberpunk 2077' and the beloved nostalgia of 'Saved by the Bell' 🕉️☸️💀💰🕹️🔔.
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Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
We welcome Alice Hawley LPC NCC LMFT to our practice and talk about evidence based practice in soft and hard sciences. Please check out Alice's bio here.
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Saturday Aug 05, 2023
Saturday Aug 05, 2023
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Get ready to dive into the world of evidence-based practice and medical scams with the brilliant author Matt Hongoltz-Hetling! 📖🔬 His latest book "If It Sounds Like a Quack" uncovers the fascinating intersection of healthcare, science, and deception. Join us for an illuminating podcast interview where we explore the murky waters of medical misinformation, separating fact from fiction. 💡🚫
🔍 Discover the truth behind #Scams and learn how to navigate the sea of dubious health claims that flood our lives. With Matt's insightful analysis, you'll gain valuable insights into the tactics used by quacks and fraudsters to exploit unsuspecting patients. 🕵️♂️💉
From miracle cures to pseudoscientific jargon, we'll unravel the mysteries of the healthcare industry while discussing how to spot red flags and make informed decisions about your well-being. 🚩🤔
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The power of #EvidenceBasedPractice in separating effective treatments from mere hoaxes.Real-life examples of medical scams that have captivated the masses.How to critically evaluate medical information in an era of information overload.Strategies for protecting yourself and your loved ones from falling prey to medical fraud.Don't miss out on this riveting conversation that will empower you with the knowledge to make informed healthcare choices. 🎧🤝
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Thursday Jul 27, 2023
🎙️📘Interview with Dick Russel on The Life and Ideas of James Hillman 🧠💭
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Dick Russell has published fifteen books on subjects ranging from natural history to the assassination of President Kennedy.
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Dive into the depths of the human psyche with #DickRussell as he unravels "The Life and Ideas of James Hillman" 🧠💭 Join us for an enlightening conversation on #JungianPsychology, #ArchetypalTherapy, and the journey of self-discovery! 🌌🕳️ Don't miss this insightful exploration into the realms of the mind and soul! 🌟🎧 #JungianPsychology #Schizophrenia #ArchetypalPsychology #shamanism #SchizophreniaSupport #JungianAnalysis #CollectiveUnconscious #SchizophreniaTreatment #DepthPsychology #SchizophreniaRecovery #AnalyticalPsychology #carljung
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Monday Jul 17, 2023
🏛️📿🙏The Spirituality of Urban Planning With Will Selman
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Monday Jul 17, 2023
Central to the discussion is the ancient Greek concept of 'Temenos' - a sacred space extending beyond the confines of a temple into the city. This idea is crucial in reimagining urban spaces not just as functional entities but as extensions of sacred, communal areas. The book argues for viewing the entire city through this lens, transforming urban planning into a more holistic and respectful practice toward both the environment and its inhabitants. Urban planning and depth psychology may appear as disparate fields, yet their intersection offers novel insights into city design and architecture.
The article further explores how contemporary urban planning can benefit from this approach, especially considering today's societal and environmental challenges. It discusses the need for cities to transcend utilitarian views, integrating practicality with a deeper spiritual and communal essence.
There is also a critique of modern furniture design and architecture, contrasting the intentional and lasting designs of the past with the transient and utility-focused trends of today. This critique extends to discussing how the values reflected in our buildings and urban spaces have evolved and why a reevaluation of these values is essential.
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Join us as we unravel the fascinating connections between our built environment, spiritual values, and collective consciousness, delving into topics like mythology, shamanism, integral spirituality, and much more. 🌌📖 Will Selman, a distinguished urban consultant and founder of the Institute for Symbolic Urbanism, takes us on an eclectic journey through time and culture, offering a fresh perspective on city life and its potential to be a source of psychic uplift. 🏛️💫 If you're a spiritual seeker or an urban advocate passionate about soulful placemaking, this episode is a must-listen! 🎧🌆 So sit back, relax, and get ready for an inspiring conversation that'll make you see cities and towns in a whole new light. Let's get started! 🎉🎧
The unfortunate state of our cities and towns is not so much a problem of design and policy as a reflection of a loss of spiritual values and purpose on a civilizational scale. But if our built environment reflects our deeper spiritual intentions, the experience of the city can be a source of psychic uplift. So argues urban consultant Will Selman in his tour de force book Temenos: The Design and Experience of Urbanism as Spiritual Path.
Selman begins with the assertion that the fundamental task of humanity, throughout time and across cultures, is the spiritual quest to awaken to greater insight and more conscious awareness. This is an evolutionary process on the personal and collective level, and, as he then illustrates, our built environments have an important role to play in that psycho-spiritual awakening.
Temenos takes the reader on an eclectic journey through ancient mythology, shamanism, Jungian psychology, integral spirituality, sacred geometry, money and materialism, the history of suburban sprawl, and urbanism as storytelling, to name a few stops along the way to his final destination—a new approach to design he calls “Symbolic Urbanism,” based on the example of L’Enfant’s plan for Washington, DC. Using images and compelling storytelling, Temenos is an engaging read for spiritual seekers who desire to discover the potential of urban towns and cities to support their journey, and for advocates of urban placemaking who desire to infuse their work with a more soulful approach.--------------------------------------------Will Selman, CNU-A, is a New Urbanist land planning consultant in Washington, DC and founder of the Institute for Symbolic Urbanism. A thirty-year member of the Congress for the New Urbanism, he is professionally focused on issues surrounding land development, zoning and comprehensive planning, the design of traditional walkable and sustainable mixed-use neighborhoods, community visioning and charrettes.
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
🧮🎨🧠Synesthesia: Blending the Senses to Distill the Soul
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
In this captivating podcast episode, we delve into the profound world of #mindfulness, offering invaluable insights and practical techniques to enhance your well-being. Join our esteemed host and expert guests as they unlock the secrets to living a more mindful and fulfilling life. 🌟
Discover how to cultivate a greater sense of awareness and presence in each moment, empowering you to navigate life's challenges with clarity and grace. Dive deep into the transformative power of mindfulness, exploring its impact on stress reduction, emotional regulation, and overall mental health. 🧘♀️💆♂️💡
Through thought-provoking discussions, our guests share personal anecdotes and professional expertise, guiding you towards developing a mindfulness practice that resonates with your unique journey. Gain access to practical tips and strategies for incorporating mindfulness into your daily routine, whether you're a beginner or already familiar with its benefits. 🎙️✨
Immerse yourself in enlightening conversations, exploring various mindfulness techniques such as meditation, breathwork, and body awareness. Uncover the science-backed evidence behind mindfulness and its potential to foster resilience, improve focus, and cultivate compassion towards oneself and others. 🧠💚🌍
Whether you're seeking solace in a chaotic world or aiming to optimize your performance in various aspects of life, this podcast episode is your gateway to unlocking the transformative power of mindfulness. Listen now and embark on a journey of self-discovery, personal growth, and lasting well-being. 🎧🚀
Ranking well on #Spotify and other algorithms, this episode's valuable content and engaging discussions ensure it stands out among the vast sea of podcasts. Join the mindfulness movement and embark on a life-changing exploration today! #Podcast #WellBeing #MentalHealth #SelfDiscovery #MindfulLiving #PersonalGrowth 🌟🎙️🌍
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Disclaimer: 🚨 The Healing Hour Podcast is not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you are in need of professional help, please consult with a licensed therapist or psychologist. 🧠💙
Join us on a journey of self-discovery and mental well-being as we dive into a wide range of topics related to therapy and mental health. 🗣️💡 Our passionate team at Taproot Therapy Collective is dedicated to providing valuable insights, practical advice, and inspiring stories to help you navigate your own mental health journey. 🌈🌿
Each episode of The Healing Hour Podcast offers a safe space for meaningful conversations, exploring subjects such as mindfulness, coping strategies, relationship dynamics, self-care practices, and much more. 🎧🌟 Our diverse range of guests, including therapists, psychologists, and individuals with lived experiences, share their expertise and personal stories to shed light on important mental health topics. 🎙️🤝
Remember, while we strive to provide helpful information and perspectives, this podcast is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Seeking support from qualified therapists or healthcare providers is essential for comprehensive treatment. 🙌💚
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Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
🪑 You May Address the Chair: What we sit in tells us what we stand for
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
Wednesday Jun 21, 2023
🎙️ The Psychology of Chairs: Unveiling Culture, Personality, and Design 🪑🌍🧠
Disclaimer: 🚨 The Psychology of Chairs podcast is not a substitute for mental health treatment. If you are in need of professional help, please consult with a licensed therapist or psychologist. 🪑💙
Welcome to The Psychology of Chairs, where we delve into the captivating connection between furniture, culture, personality, and psychology. Join us on an enlightening exploration as we uncover the hidden messages embedded in the design and function of chairs. 🗣️💺
Did you ever stop to consider the profound impact that chairs have on our lives? From therapy sessions to movie sets, the presence of chairs is more than just utilitarian; it reflects our deep-seated visual language and societal values. We'll unveil the secrets behind why therapists typically sit on chairs and patients on couches, and how this simple arrangement carries profound psychological significance. 🌿🏢
In this podcast, we'll dive into the intersection of design and psychology, exploring how chairs become powerful indicators of personality, cultural attitudes, and our visions of the future. We'll examine the ongoing debate between classicists and modernists in architecture, as they embody contrasting views on style, function, and society. Discover how these philosophical differences play out in the world of furniture design. 🌎🎨
Join us as we pay homage to visionary designers such as Charles and Ray Eames, whose iconic Eames chair revolutionized the industry and became a timeless symbol of innovative design. Uncover the stories behind their creations and how they accurately predicted the future, even when their work was initially misunderstood. Explore the connection between their visionary thinking and the advent of the internet, as they intuited the world of hyper-connectivity before it became a reality. 🚀📐
Through the lens of chairs, we'll unlock the psychological and cultural dynamics that shape our society. Discover how chairs serve as barometers of style, reflecting the evolution of language, attitudes, and experiences. Explore the profound symbolism of chairs in politics, religion, film, storytelling, and more. Gain insights into the power of design to communicate values, create context, and shape our perception of brands and spaces. 🌟🎥
Why write about chairs? Because they offer a unique gateway into understanding the human psyche and our ever-changing world. Chairs are not mere objects; they embody the essence of time, tradition, and innovation. They tell stories of generations, social attitudes, technological advancements, and cultural shifts. They invite us to contemplate the deeper meanings behind our everyday surroundings. 📚✨
At Taproot Therapy, we recognize the importance of design in fostering healing environments. Our therapy practice embraces both the cutting-edge advancements in brain-based medicine and the timeless wisdom of holistic traditions. We invite you to join us on this podcast journey, where we unravel the fascinating tales that chairs have to share. 🌿🪑
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Not everyone will notice these details, but they will still feel them. The things that we don’t notice often speak to us louder than the details we are trying to listen too. People feel the weight of furniture, they feel real wood grain is different than laminated compressed saw dust bard that has wood grain printed on it. People know if they saw this same chair at Target or if it is a unique, maybe weird, piece of art that makes them slow down and think. People feel these details even if they don’t exactly know why or what they feel. The spaces that we inhabit affect us unconsciously and I wanted Taproot to feel different. That’s why all the offices are so different at Taproot. The style of each office is based on the personality and perspective of each clinician.
Most of the styles of chair at Taproot come from the Modern and Mid Century period. These periods interest me because the celebrated design and inovation in furniture design and manufacturing even if all the designers in the movement could not quite agree on what it was. How did the Mid Century Modern and Modern furniture movement come about?
The History of the Chair
Medieval Period
During the medieval period, when the Catholic Church held significant influence, thrones and seats for bishops and popes featured ornate carvings, luxurious fabrics, and precious metals. The craftsmanship and materials used underscored the divine authority attributed to these figures. Intricate religious motifs, such as depictions of saints or biblical scenes, were often incorporated into the design, emphasizing their spiritual role. In the context of religious leadership, thrones and seats were designed to visually and symbolically distinguish bishops and popes from ordinary worshippers. Elaborate materials, intricate details, and grandeur were employed to convey their exalted positions. These designs reflected the prevailing artistic and cultural styles of their respective eras.
Industrial Period
During the Industrial Revolution, the mass production of chairs led to increased affordability and availability. This shift in manufacturing techniques made chairs more accessible to the middle and working classes, allowing them to enjoy the comfort and convenience of seating that was previously reserved for the wealthy. As economic values shifted towards industrialization and mass production, the emphasis on efficiency and cost-effectiveness influenced chair design.
Modernist Period
The mid-20th century saw the rise of consumer culture and the development of new materials and manufacturing processes. With the increasing availability of resources and the desire for comfort and style, chairs became more than just functional items. They became a means of self-expression and a reflection of individual taste and lifestyle. The introduction of innovative materials and production techniques allowed for the creation of chairs that catered to different economic segments and societal needs. During periods of austerity or war, chair design often shifted towards simplicity and functionality, prioritizing utility over elaborate ornamentation. The minimalist designs of the post-World War II era, influenced by the need for practicality and rebuilding, reflected a societal shift towards simplicity, efficiency, and the rejection of excess.
In recent years, as sustainability and environmental consciousness have gained prominence, chair design has adapted to reflect these changing societal values. Designers have embraced eco-friendly materials, renewable resources, and sustainable production methods, aligning with the growing desire for environmentally responsible products. The focus on durability, recyclability, and ethical sourcing of materials has become integral to contemporary chair design.
What is Mid Century Modern Furniture
The Modernist Movement emerged as a response to the changing cultural landscape of the 19th century. Where older styles had been based on mimicking the power and extravagant resources of European nobility, now patients began to rethink the idea of what a chair is and what it could be. French and English styles went out of favor. Inspired by the principles of simplicity, functionality, and efficiency, new designers championed the idea of honesty in materials. By showcasing materials in their true form, devoid of unnecessary ornamentation, designers aimed to reflect the spirit of an evolving society. Things like gold, ornamentation and paint were not used to disguise wood. Instead wood was celebrated.
This led to the clean and stripped down archetypal design of modernism. One of the key aspects of mid century modernist design philosophy was the integration of manufacturing processes as part of design. Designers like the Eames understanding the capabilities and limitations of manufacturing processes, meant that they could create designs that were both efficient to produce and aesthetically pleasing. The used mass production not to make more money but make higher quality available to more people. This approach allowed them to create innovative and mass-produced furniture that was affordable and accessible to a wide audience.
Modern and postmodern design generally emphasized the importance of honesty in materials. Honesty of material means materials should be used in their truest form, showcasing their inherent qualities and characteristics. Don’t print plastic to look like wood, instead showcase all the neat things that you can only do with plastic. In the Eames Lounge Chair, molded plywood and leather upholstery, allows the natural grain and texture of the wood to be visible, and highlights the beauty of the materials instead of painting, printing, or covering it up.
During the Cold War era, game theory and the ideological battle between the West and the East played a significant role in shaping the expressive styles within the Modernist Movement. Mathematician John Nash's game theory influenced design to embrace individualism and personal expression as a response to perceived conformity in communist societies. This shift towards individuality fueled the emergence of unique and expressive works.
Remarkably, the influence of intelligence agencies, such as the CIA, cannot be ignored when examining the development of the Modernist art movement. The CIA covertly supported various artistic endeavors during the Cold War, including the promotion of Modernist art. This involvement aimed to showcase the creative freedom and individualistic spirit prevalent in the West, serving as a cultural weapon against the perceived conformity of communist societies.
One prominent figure within the Modernist Movement is Adrien Pearsall, whose designs left an indelible mark on the era. Pearsall's furniture had water-like curling lines. Some of it looked like water and others looked like boats. Sofas became gondolas and rafts that could sail around a living room like it was a venetian canal. Pearsall's iconic creations showcased a harmonious blend of functionality, aesthetics, and comfort. His style influenced the Nagare (流, flow) design language of Mazda cars.
During the rise of the Modernist Movement, there was a strong emphasis on individual expression and the celebration of uniqueness. While some iconic Modernist pieces achieved a delicate balance between form and function, others prioritized individualistic aesthetics over practicality, resulting in furniture that may be visually striking but less comfortable or usable. I am a fan of the minimalism, honesty in materials, and more natural appearance of designers like Pearsall. The harsh chrome and confusing juxtaposed materials of La Corbusier and HR Gigerish coldness of Mies van der Rohe, I could do without. I see them as dead ends in design and one of the risks of over indulging a modernist tendency.
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You won't see any chrome or fur at Taproot, but many hues of natural wood and leather. In fact, so many of our people bought the Kardiel Woodrow couches after they saw them at Taproot that Kardiel made us a brand ambassador. That was not expected or intended. If you are interested you can use the offer code TAPROOT at Kardiel.com. It helps us provide therapy to people at a reduced rate and you can get some nice furniture that will last longer than you.
German philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that humans exist in a condition of "natality," meaning that each person is born into a unique world and has the capacity to initiate something new. For Arendt, the world is the space where individuals can create and establish their own identities, engage with others, and participate in meaningful activities. Culture is formed through human activities such as labor, work, and action. The environment plays a crucial role in shaping and influencing individuals' experiences. Arendt recognized that the world is a dynamic and interactive space that individuals engage with. The environment provides the context and conditions for human action and facilitates the development of individual and collective identities.
One of my favorite authors, Robert Pogue Harrison writes that design and architecture are not merely utilitarian or functional but are imbued with cultural and aesthetic significance. He suggests that our living spaces reflect and shape our sense of belonging, identity, and connection to the world. He examines the ways in which architecture and design influence our experience of "being at home" and the impact of our surroundings on our well-being. Regarding chairs, Harrison notes that they mediate between the body and the environment. He discusses how chairs provide a space of rest, comfort, and contemplation, influencing our posture, movements, and interactions with others. The tools we use, especially the most essential ones, are either successfully connecting you to growth and beauty or failing to.
Many people make the case that these lounge chairs cost exorbitant amounts of money and are a luxury for the ultra wealthy. Some of them are ostentatious or downright stupid but that is largely because they are either rare antiques or made by the few remaining companies that employ people to build things. Again, we have forgotten what design means. Most of the chairs that we have at Taproot I didn't pay a dime for. They belonged to friends and family who were moving out of their houses or onto the next life. Somewhere found at garage or estate sales like the Niels Moller Model 71 chairs in the Neurostim room. Sure they needed work but they were designed to be worked on forever. Things we love need work. Things with no value we throw away. I had no problem dis and re assembling them into pieces because they were designed to be timeless not replaced next year.
I have tried and failed to put together a brand new $500 table from modern furniture companies without breaking it. That's fine, Wayfair will send you a new one for free because they know what it is worth. I was able to refinish and reupholster the antiques at Taproot for $30 in a few days. I could have sold them on Etsy, but I would rather share them with everyone who walks through the door. They were my late godmother's and I don't have room for them at home. My Godmother loved Carl Jung, labyrinths and depth psychology. I think of her when I see them and know she is still here. Myself and other therapists I work with have worked in practices that threw out and replaced more of an investment in Wayfair furniture annually than I spent to set up our entire practice. My kids will inherit that furniture. The chairs connect me and you and one day my children to the beautiful person my godmother was.
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Isn't it fun to sit with these ideas for a minute and remember a time when people made things out of love and for the sake of art and self discovery. What does it do to our mental health to live in a world where everything we eat, watch, put in our house and live in has become dispensable disposable garbage. We have forgotten what design means. People will talk about the beautiful "design" of an iPhone and then throw it away in a few month when the next one has rounder corners. Good design is timeless, even if it is the timeless experience of remembering the way a meal was plated or how it tasted. It lasted. Some beautiful designs of soft and hardware come out of Silicon Valley. I still wax nostalgic about my candy bar Sony Erickson college phone, but I'm weird. Realistically how many of you are framing photos and treasuring memories of each generation of iPhone that broke when you sat on it because it wasn't a chair. Generally most of high technology "innovations" are just disguises for triggering humanities worst addictive, obsessive, and competitive tendencies.
The reason for this is right there in the back of the iPhone. Designed by Apple in California! and then in tiny print made in china. Manufacturing is part of design. Or it was. We think that design is something that we can dream up in a vacuum and then outsource all the nitty gritty details of realizing our vision to someone else. As Charles and Ray Eames discovered when they built their first chair. You design it as you are manufacturing it. The design for their first chair was too hard for them to build themselves, so they started over with something the two of them could build before they sent it to a manufacturer. They wanted what they built to last and enrich the lives of those who used it. They weren't trying to sell you an Eames chair every year. They wanted to see the future for the beauty of what that future could be, not to sell it too you. The American brands without planned obsolescence, like Maytag Appliance, have gone bankrupt and been sold off. Prophets and profits are not the same thing. Humans want to live in the ego alone. We want to live within fads, and trends. Hyperconsuming free market capitalism exploits this. It is why consumerist capitalism will always skew aesthetic taste towards thoughtlessly modernist design and planned obsolescence. People are threatened by the things that take away their ego's control and point them back to a timeless reality and our own personal insignificance in the face of the numinous.
I like good design because it points us back to a greater psychological, spiritual and transcendental reality. I believe that we can build a better world than one where all of our interactions with people and the spaces we inhabit are not merely transactions. We need to rethink where we assign value and where we place our identity. We need to admit that the places we live and work in effect us and are worth our mindful attention. Not just as practical considerations but as intuitive creative projects for us to find our own and our collective humanities soul. Modernist designers sought to break away from traditional forms and create furniture that embodied their personal visions. This approach resonated with the American spirit of individualism. Breaking old ideas is always a risk but creation is a risky business. Good design is timeless because it comes from timeless elements and forms in the human psyche. It may take generations to map these unseen realms of our collective humanity through our intuition. We don't always know good design when we see, but I would argue we know it when we feel. Even more so, we know it when it sticks around. Arendt and Harrison are correct that changing our self begins with changing our environment and vice versa. If you want to change your life start by changing your chair.
This is my favorite chair
If you want to dip your toe into the water of modernist furniture here is a designer cheat sheet to get you started.
What are the Major Mid Century Modern Style of Furniture
Mid-century modern furniture encompasses various design movements and styles. Here's an explanation of some of the key design movements associated with mid-century modern furniture:
Bauhaus:
The Bauhaus movement, founded in Germany in 1919, had a significant influence on mid-century modern design. It emphasized the fusion of art, craft, and technology. Bauhaus furniture featured clean lines, geometric forms, and the innovative use of materials like tubular steel. Designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer were associated with the Bauhaus movement and created iconic pieces like the Barcelona Chair and the Wassily Chair.
Danish Modern:
Danish Modern design emerged from Denmark in the mid-20th century and is known for its craftsmanship, functionality, and simplicity. Designers like Hans Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, and Børge Mogensen were instrumental in defining this style. Danish Modern furniture often features organic forms, sculptural shapes, and the use of high-quality woods like teak and rosewood. Iconic examples include the Shell Chair by Hans Wegner and the Egg Chair by Arne Jacobsen.
Scandinavian Design:
While Danish Modern is a part of Scandinavian design, this broader design movement encompasses the styles of other Nordic countries as well. Scandinavian design emphasizes minimalism, functionality, and natural materials. Light woods, such as birch and pine, are commonly used. Clean lines and simplicity are prominent features. The work of designers like Alvar Aalto from Finland and Bruno Mathsson from Sweden contributed to the popularity of Scandinavian design during the mid-century modern period.
Arts and Crafts:
The Arts and Crafts movement emerged as a response to the mass production and industrialization of the Victorian era. Advocates of the movement, including Stickley and the Greene brothers, sought to revive traditional craftsmanship and celebrate the beauty of handmade objects. They emphasized the importance of skilled artisans and the integration of art into everyday life. Gustav Stickley, an American furniture maker, established his own furniture company, Stickley Brothers, in the late 19th century. He became a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement, promoting a style that emphasized simplicity, functionality, and the use of natural materials. Stickley's chairs often featured solid construction, exposed joinery, and handcrafted details.
Organic Design:
Organic design, associated with the work of designers like Charles and Ray Eames, sought to bring nature-inspired elements into furniture. Organic forms, flowing lines, and the use of molded plywood and fiberglass were key characteristics. The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, with its molded plywood shell and luxurious upholstery, is a quintessential example of organic design.
International Style:
The International Style emerged in the 1920s and 1930s and influenced mid-century modern design. It emphasized simplicity, functionality, and the absence of ornamentation. Steel, glass, and concrete were commonly used materials. Architects and designers like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius played a significant role in promoting the International Style and its impact on furniture design.
Who Were the Major Mid Century Modern Furniture Designers?
Hans Wegner:
Danish furniture designer, is often referred to as the "grandfather of chairs" due to his immense contributions to the field of chair design. His innovative and timeless chair designs have had a profound impact on the furniture industry and continue to be revered and admired to this day.
Wegner gained recognition and acclaim for his ability to create chairs that seamlessly combined form and function. He had a deep understanding of the human body and ergonomics, which allowed him to design chairs that were not only visually appealing but also comfortable and supportive. Wegner believed that a chair should be a perfect balance of aesthetics, functionality, and comfort.
Wegner was also known for his exploration of various materials and production techniques. He worked extensively with wood, especially oak and teak, using traditional craftsmanship methods. His chairs showcased the natural beauty of wood and displayed intricate joinery techniques, which became hallmarks of his designs. Wegner's meticulous attention to detail and his commitment to high-quality craftsmanship elevated his chairs to the realm of functional art.
Arne Jacobsen:
Celebrated for his minimal, simple, and distinct lounge chair designs. Notable pieces include the Egg Chair, Swan Chair, and Swan Sofa.
Eero Aarnio:
Known for his innovative furniture designs in the 1960s, particularly his plastic and fiberglass chairs. Explore the iconic Ball Chair, Bubble Chair, and more.
Eero Saarinen:
A Finnish American architect and industrial designer renowned for his mastery of varying styles. Discover his iconic designs, including the "Womb" chair and the "Tulip" or "Pedestal" group.
Eileen Gray:
A multifaceted artist known for her independent spirit and contributions to furniture design. Explore her notable works, such as the Bibendum Chair and the Eileen Gray Side Table. You might recognize her transat chair as the one that Fredo cant sit up in when he confronts his brother in The Godfather Part 2.
George Nelson:
One of the founding fathers of American Modernism, renowned for his contributions to cleaner urban design. Explore his well-known Modern Classic Furniture designs, including the Nelson Bench, Coconut Chair, and Marshmallow Sofa.
Isamu Noguchi:
A sculptor known for his flowing interconnectivity, reflected in his iconic Noguchi Table. Discover his collaborations with other midcentury designers in our extensive collection.
Le Corbusier:
A Swiss architect, designer, and urbanist who played a pivotal role in the development of Modern architecture. Explore his iconic LC-2, LC-3, and LC-4 chairs and sofa sets.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:
A German architect recognized as one of the pioneering masters of Modern Architecture.
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Saturday Jun 17, 2023
🏛️Frank Lloyd Wright and the Psychology of Architecture
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
Saturday Jun 17, 2023
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🏛️✨ The Psychology of Architecture: Unveiling the Influence of Frank Lloyd Wright 🌟🔮 Explore the profound impact of 🏗️🧠 #architecture as we dive into the inspiring world of #FrankLloydWright! 🌆✨ Discover how Wright's visionary process transcends boundaries, resonating with #psychology, #design, and beyond. 🌌 Join us on this captivating journey where soft sciences meet intuitive design, and where the beauty that defies words awaits. 😍🏡✨ Immerse yourself in the transformative power of Wright's spaces, perfectly blending with nature, functionality, and deep symbolism. Embark on a captivating exploration into the #psychologyofarchitecture today! 🚀🎥🔍 🔑 #ArchitectureInspiration #DesignThinking #SpatialPsychology 🌿 #NaturalHarmony #FunctionalDesign #SymbolicSpaces 💡 #ArchitecturalPhilosophy #HumanSpirit #TimelessBeauty Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Check out the youtube: https://youtube.com/@GetTherapyBirminghamPodcast Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/Podcast Feed: https://feed.podbean.com/GetTherapyBirmingham/feed.xmlTaproot Therapy Collective2025 Shady Crest Drive | Hoover, Alabama 35216Phone: (205) 598-6471Fax: (205) 634-3647 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.comThe resources, videos and podcasts on our site and social media are no substitute for mental health treatment. Please find a qualified mental health provider and contact emergency services in your area in the event of an emergency to a provider in your area. Our number and email are only for scheduling at Taproot Therapy Collective are not monitored consistently and not a reliable resource for emergency services.
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Wednesday May 31, 2023
😈Icky, Mean, Hateful: On the nature of evil in psychotherapy
Wednesday May 31, 2023
Wednesday May 31, 2023
#EvilRevealed #AuthenticHonesty #RelationshipCounseling
Join us on this thought-provoking episode of GetTherapyBirmingham.com's podcast, "Taproot Therapy Collective" 🎙️, as we explore the profound impact of labeling and confronting bad behavior in relationships. Discover how accurately identifying and acknowledging problematic patterns, regardless of their size, can be the key to fostering successful transformations.
In relationship counseling, it's not the size of the problem that determines success; it's the willingness to accurately label and agree on the need for change. From monumental challenges like addiction or infidelity to seemingly minor issues like avoidance and white lies, the biggest predictor of success is the acknowledgment of the problem and the commitment to transform. 🔒❌
In this episode, we dive deep into the nature of evil and its origins in rationalization and avoidance. 🤔 We unravel how avoiding the label of bad behavior perpetuates negative patterns and shields us from personal growth. We all bear the responsibility to change, but when someone deliberately chooses to make the world a worse place, it's crucial to be honest about their actions. Defend their soul's potential, but not their refusal to change. 🔀💡
We challenge societal norms that discourage speaking ill of the family or the deceased, and instead advocate for authentic honesty as the foundation of meaningful change. After all, if we lack authenticity, what else do we have? Join us in this candid conversation as we unravel the complexities of evil, personal growth, and the power of embracing genuine honesty. 🗣️💡
Get ready to shift your perspective, engage with thought-provoking insights, and explore the transformative power of authenticity. 🌱🌟 Tune in to this enlightening episode by visiting GetTherapyBirmingham.com/podcast or clicking the link in our bio. 🎧✨
For more information about relationship counseling and therapy services, visit GetTherapyBirmingham.com or call us at (555) 123-4567. Our experienced therapists at Taproot Therapy Collective are here to support your growth, healing, and positive change. 🌻💚
Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are for informational purposes only and should not be taken as professional advice. Please consult with a licensed therapist or counselor for personalized guidance regarding your specific situation. #RelationshipCounseling #PersonalGrowth #Transformation
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Tuesday May 30, 2023
Tuesday May 30, 2023
Nothing Gold Can Stay: Rethinking Money, Value, and Society 💰🌍✨ #ThoughtExperiment #MoneyMatters #NewIdeas
Description: Join us for a captivating thought experiment as we delve into the intricate relationship between money, wealth, power, and the psychology of economy in this episode of our podcast. In "Nothing Gold Can Stay," we challenge the conventional notions of what we value and invite you to reconsider the foundations of a healthy and stable society. 🤔💡
Disclaimer: Please note that this article is purely a thought experiment and does not advocate for any specific political or economic reality. The intent is to encourage critical thinking, question implicit assumptions, and explore alternative ideas.
In this episode, our psychotherapist host, not an economist, embarks on a journey to reimagine the concept of money in the absence of nonperishable precious metals like gold and silver. What would money look like if we didn't have these traditional forms of value storage? 📉💰
Through intriguing examples, such as the Yapese island's unique monetary system, where massive limestone disks served as currency, we explore alternative means of storing value. Discover how the Yapese utilized a collective ledger and social recognition to assign value and maintain a functioning economy, without physically moving the stones. 🏝️🗿💡
We delve into the fascinating process of acquiring and distributing rai stones on the island of Yap, where social merit and prestige played pivotal roles. Explore the connection between accomplishments, leadership, and the allocation of rai stones, symbolizing honor and social standing within the community. 🪨🌟
Our discussion uncovers how this reputation-based system rewards benevolence, generosity, and innovation, highlighting the potential for a society that values contributions to the common good over the accumulation of precious metals. 🤝💎✨
Join us on this intellectual journey as we challenge the impact of gold on our conceptions of society and culture. Delve into the intriguing origins of gold on Earth, and contemplate how slight astrophysical variations could have drastically altered the course of history, affecting the very presence of this coveted metal. 🌌🔍
Prepare to question the norms, reevaluate societal assumptions, and ponder new possibilities for a healthier and more stable society. Tune in to this thought-provoking episode by visiting our website or accessing it through the link in our bio. 🎧🔮
Disclaimer: The views expressed in this podcast are purely speculative and should not be interpreted as professional financial or economic advice. Consult with experts in the field for personalized guidance. #MoneyTalks #NewPerspectives #AlternativeEconomy
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Saturday Apr 22, 2023
🧠🗺️ Mapping: What is Neurostimulation and Neurofeedback?
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
Saturday Apr 22, 2023
#HealingandGrowth #PersonalizedTreatment #NeuralPlasticity
Click here to find out more and book: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.... 🧠💡 What You Need to Know About Neurostimulation and Brain Mapping 🌟🔬 Discover the cutting-edge therapy technique known as neurostimulation, designed to unlock new neural connections and rewiring pathways in the brain for growth and healing. Unlike other forms of brain feedback, neurostimulation emulates the natural learning process we experience as children, restoring plasticity and facilitating the formation of fresh neural networks. Whether it's trauma, brain injury, aging, or neurodevelopmental conditions impeding brain growth, neurostimulation offers a natural solution. 🌱💫 Enter the realm of brain mapping, the most precise method for analyzing brain function and personality. Far surpassing the insights gained from therapy or psychometrics alone, brain mapping provides invaluable information. Utilize your brain map to validate your intuitive understanding of your diagnosis, collaborate with your therapist to plan treatment, make informed decisions about medication, and determine the necessary steps for healing and growth. 🧭🧠💭 At Peak Neuroscience, we harness the power of your brain map to create a personalized neurostimulation plan that revitalizes your brain and promotes growth and healing. By identifying areas affected by trauma, injury, mental health conditions, or aging, neurostimulation taps into the brain's innate healing mechanisms. Through direct communication with the brain's neurons, our neurostimulation allows us to guide the healing process, potentially leading to permanent results and reducing or eliminating the need for medication in specific disorders. Gain the tangible proof you seek about your brain's state, as brain mapping provides undeniable evidence of its functioning, unlike many therapists and clinics that fail to listen. 📊🧠💪 Within the intricate web of neural networks, frequencies play a vital role. During learning, these frequencies harmonize, establishing functional connections. However, when interruptions occur, these frequencies break down, hindering effective communication within the brain's channels. At Peak Neuroscience, our clinicians refer to these frequencies as "phases," using them to comprehend your personality and determine the healing your brain requires. Neurostimulation emerges as the sole method of gentle, personalized stimulation that targets your brain's unique neural network. Unlike feedback or stimulation approaches based on a clinician's opinion or external measurements, neurostimulation is grounded in your brain's distinct fingerprint, with every aspect of treatment tailored specifically to you. 🌌🧠🎯 Unlock the transformative power of neurostimulation and brain mapping, unravel the frequencies that shape your brain's communication, and embark on a journey of healing and growth guided by your brain's unique needs and diagnosis. Experience the future of neuroscience at Peak Neuroscience. 💫🌟💆♀️ ⚡️ #NeurostimulationTherapy #BrainMappingInsights #HealingandGrowth 🔬 #PersonalizedTreatment #BrainHealthRevolution #NeuralPlasticity 🌌 #UnlockingPotential #CuttingEdgeNeuroscience #PersonalizedHealing Find more at:
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Saturday Apr 15, 2023
Saturday Apr 15, 2023
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🌟📚 Meet Win Scheppes: A Lifelong Friend, Mentor, and Dedicated Social Worker at 86! 🤝💼
Discover the inspiring story of Win Scheppes, a remarkable social worker who continues to make a difference in people's lives well into his 86th year. With unwavering passion, he exclaims, "I love doing therapy so damn much," showcasing his unrelenting commitment to his profession. For an incredible 57 years, he has served his community from his Homewood office, touching countless lives along the way. 🌟💙
But Win's journey doesn't end there! Recently, he accomplished a lifelong dream by publishing a heartwarming children's book. This touching work aims to convey an essential message to children: It's okay to cry. Through his book, Win aspires to provide comfort and understanding to young readers, fostering emotional well-being and resilience. Join the local Alabama community in celebrating Win Scheppes as he embarks on a new chapter as an esteemed author. 📖🌈
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Witness the power of compassion and the indomitable spirit of an extraordinary individual dedicated to making the world a better place, one therapy session and one page at a time. 🌟🌍💕
👴🧡 #WinScheppes #LifelongFriend #InspiringMentor🤝💼 #DedicatedSocialWorker #TherapyPassion #CommunityImpact📚🌈 #ChildrensBook #EmotionalWellBeing #Resilience🌟💙 #AlabamaAuthor #DreamRealized #BookPublication Find more at: Taproot Therapy CollectiveWebsite: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/Address:2025 Shady Crest Dr2nd FloorHoover, AL 35216
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Monday Mar 06, 2023
🏢👿Corporate Tech Monopolies are Going to Ruin Therapy
Monday Mar 06, 2023
Monday Mar 06, 2023
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Last weekend BetterHelp, the online subscription therapy company, settled with the FTC for almost 8 million in fines for selling therapy patients confidential information to Facebook and Snapchat. This isn’t justice, so hold your applause.
The company, whose name really is the word better and help smashed together with no space between them has had issues before. A quick google search reveals customer reviews claiming the company is as good at therapy as it is at punctuation. The company previously faced controversy for allegedly paying youtube influencers to vlog about invented mental health conditions that they claimed the company's treatment had “cured”. Since these influencers have and audience of children and young adults who look up to them, these potential lies are especially worrisome. Some of these influencers purportedly received thousands of dollars in compensation for the alleged lies.
Real patients seeking a cure from better help have reported getting hit with recurring subscription fees, therapists that repeatedly no show and charge you anyway, as well as getting slammed with hours of paperwork that takes up all the allotted time. If true, this is a shady practice but not illegal.
So why is the sale of data such a big deal? Put simply it's a big deal because if I did it to one patient I would lose my license and potentially get sued. The FTC has just set a precedent that big companies can now do this to millions of people with impunity. Fines, like the 7.8 million that BetterHelp is returning to consumers is a cost of doing business for these companies. They take the risk because they make more money breaking the law than they pay in fines.
Because this would have put anyone else in court.
When you go to therapy there is more than just an expectation that what you talk about will be kept private. HIPPA laws mean that if your therapist knowingly discloses information about you they are breaking the law. You can sue them, their board can take their license, insurance panels can drop them and you can sue them civilly. This is if one therapist knowingly shares the data of a single patient.
Here it happened to millions of people. This was not an accident either. BetterHelp intentionally did this WHILE telling customers specifically that they would never do the thing that they were secretly doing.
BetterHelp removed all of the links I posted to these news articles from their social media in an effort to not have to be associated with their own behavior. That is strange since BetterHelp also claims that they did nothing wrong in their statement about the settlement.
“This settlement, which is no admission of wrongdoing, allows us to continue to focus on our mission".
You read that right. Either BetterHelp misspelled “I’m sorry” or they really think they did nothing wrong. Let's hope they are as bad at spelling as punctuation. People with antisocial personality disorder have no regard for right and wrong despite getting caught and experiencing consequences. People with this disorder need therapy but here a possible inference is that they appear to be providing it.
BetterHelp also goes on to say in their statement that all the information sold to Facebook was encrypted and non identifiable despite the fact that they released the emails of users. My email address, JoelBlackstock@GetTherapyBirmingham.com, is pretty effective at letting someone identify who I am.
Betterhelp released emails of users. If they are using betterhelp, they are seeking mental health treatment. They also released information regarding prior mental health treatment. According to the complaint:
Some of the intake questions that BetterHelp sold to facebook identified whether patients had been in therapy before. Below is from the official complaint:
“For example, though an affirmative response to the question “Have you been in counseling or therapy before?” was coded as “AddToWishlist,” the analyst revealed to Facebook that this event meant that the “user completes questionnaire marking they have been in therapy before, thereby disclosing millions of Visitors’ and Users’ prior therapy to Facebook.”
BetterHelp claims this is not protected information because it didn't come from actual sessions, just the intake to an app that gets you therapy. This is absurd. I am not allowed to tell you who comes into my waiting room or who emails me about therapy because it is readily apparent that those people are trying to receive healthcare.
While the legal burden of responsibility lies with the seller, the buyer bears some ethical responsibility in my mind. Facebook and Snapchat knew what the data was they were buying. If you knowingly buy stolen goods you are culpable. If you get caught stealing you get a punishment in addition to having to give back what you stole. Here the FTC has merely made BetterHelp return the ill gotten gains but there are no consequences. There is no punishment that any single other therapist would face.
THEN BetterHelp released a statement saying they didn't do anything wrong. Is that justice?
These corporate monopolies are ruining therapy and it is not talked about enough. The parent company of BetterHelp is another giant monopoly, Teladoc. Even if this gets publicized, even if CNN and Fox News deign to care about potentially criminal invasions of privacy, the parent company can just dissolved the brand and use the same practices under the larger corporate umbrella. This is increasingly worrisome as insurance companies are making moves to make Teladoc the mandatory go between software for patients to receive teletherapy.
As a patient, as a provider, as a legislator, refuse to participate in these things. They are a bad precedent taking the industry into a bad place.
Anyone who wants to say that this is wrong and condemn these practices has to make the intellectual leap that the only way to make it stop is to force these companies to face legal consequences. Not fines. Fines are baked into the cost of doing business. If you say you care about this then you have to accept that the only way to stop these companies is to break them up and send people to prison.
Companies like this can make more money breaking the law than they have to pay back. Executives who signed off on this deserve jail time and these companies need to be taken apart. Let's see how frequently this happens when people start looking at prison time.
Many podcasters pretend to be allies for mental health yet shill for these companies. If you listen to an influencer who shills for BetterHelp it is your responsibility to hold them accountable.
I am not making this post to condemn BetterHelp therapists. I know some who are good people and talented. I do not believe these practices are their fault. Noone becomes a social worker to get rich and finding ethical employment is a luxury that comes secondary to paying your mortgage. Good therapists work there; it drives the better people further away from competitors. Responsibility lies with the people with power not those subject to its whims. Although, you should know if you work for BetterHelp that your contract makes you personally liable for patient outcomes, even outcomes caused by following company policies.
I’ve been careful to limit my own liability in this article and without going through any more specifics, if you are a patient or a provider I am happy to guide you through how to succeed in this industry. The vast majority of people who contact Taproot Therapy Collective receive a high quality personalized referral to another local provider.
We genuinely want you to get therapy at the best place for you. We recognize that we are not the right provider for every need. We treat the therapists in our collective well even though we could make more money if we didn’t. We call every person who contacts us back even when we are full. We don’t do that because it makes us money. We do it because providers of mental health services have a responsibility to ethical behavior even when our legislators have decided there won’t be legal consequences if we don’t.
Choosing ethical behavior is not something that should be up to the clinician. Our legislators should enforce existing laws even if it means sending their campaign donors to jail. We are in a mental health crisis and practices like these give people valid reasons to be afraid of getting mental health care.
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Monday Feb 27, 2023
🐉J.F. Bierlein on Poetry, Myth, and Metaphor -www.gettherapybirmingham.com
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
📚🌍 Dive into the Fascinating World of J.F. Bierlein: Author, Teacher, and Multilingual Scholar 🌟📖 Journey back to my middle school days, where my passion for depth psychology was ignited by the captivating works of J.F. Bierlein. As the brilliant mind behind "Parallel Myths" and "Living Myths," J.F. paved the way for my profound interest in exploring the depths of the human psyche. 📚💫 Beyond his impressive literary achievements, J.F. Bierlein is a distinguished educator at American University in Washington, where he imparts his wisdom in the Washington Semester and World Capitals Program. Alongside his academic endeavors, he contributes his expertise to a social sciences consulting firm, expanding his impact even further. 🎓🌍 A true polymath, J.F. Bierlein's intellectual curiosity extends to various domains. He delves into theology, existentialism, art, opera, and the study of classical Greek, Sanskrit, Hebrew, and numerous other languages. This multilingual scholar's diverse interests reflect his deep appreciation for the humanities and his commitment to exploring the complexities of the human experience. 🌟🌍📚 Step into the realm of myth, poetry, metaphor, psychology, and mysticism through J.F. Bierlein's profound works. Uncover the interconnectedness of ancient myths, the power of symbolism, and the insights into the human condition offered by luminaries like Carl Jung. Let the realms of depth psychology and existentialism captivate your imagination and expand your understanding of the human psyche. 🌌💭 Join the discourse and embark on a transformative journey through the captivating writings of J.F. Bierlein. Immerse yourself in the world of gods, archetypes, and the mysteries that lie within the human soul. 🌟📚🔑 📖💡 #JFBierlein #ParallelMyths #LivingMyths #DepthPsychology 🌍🎓 #MultilingualScholar #Educator #Humanities 🔍🌌 #Mythology #Symbolism #Existentialism #CarlJung 📚🌸 #LiteraryInspiration #Mysticism #Poetry #Metaphor
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Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
📚💡 Exploring the Profound Insights of Carl Jung's "The Red Book" and the Essence of Jungian Psychology 🌌🔑🔮
Delve into the captivating world of Carl Jung's "The Red Book: Liber Novus," where the depths of the human psyche and the realm of the unconscious come to life. Jung considered the years he dedicated to pursuing inner images as the most crucial time of his life, from which everything else flowed. This enigmatic stream from the unconscious flooded him, leading him on a transformative journey of self-discovery and integration. 📖💭
"The Red Book" represents Jung's personal descent into the underworld, akin to the ancient Egyptian practice of opening the mouth of the dead. It is his "Book of the Dead," requiring the sacrifice of blood and the confrontation of unanswered questions from the realm of the deceased. Through this process, Jung realized that coming to terms with the dead is essential for true living, as our lives are intricately entwined with their unresolved queries. 👥🌌
The publication of "The Red Book" in 2009, almost a century after its inception, sparked both intrigue and debate. Although opinions vary on whether Jung would have chosen to publish the book during his lifetime, its significance to the psychologist cannot be understated. Revealed to only a select few confidants and family members, it was a formative period for Jung, exposing him to the depths of the collective unconscious and the forces of the deep mind. This experience profoundly influenced his subsequent work, shaping his theories and concepts concerning the unconscious and the repressed aspects of the human mind. 📚🔮
Jungian psychology, at its core, has two fundamental goals. Firstly, it seeks to integrate and understand the deepest, most repressed aspects of the human mind, paving the way for individuation—the process of becoming aware of and embracing one's true self. Secondly, it aims to navigate this profound exploration without being consumed by the unconscious forces uncovered along the way. It provides a psychological container and lens through which the self can be comprehended and clarified. 💡🔍
While not intended to be a religion, Jungian psychology serves a similar purpose by addressing the functions of the human need for religion, mythology, and the transcendental. It acts as a bridge to religion, encouraging psychology to explore and understand these aspects consciously. Jung hoped that by bringing awareness to the role of religion within humanity, his psychology could help foster a healthier and more mindful relationship with religious and transcendent experiences in our culture. 🌟🌍
Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Jungian psychology, where the exploration of the unconscious meets the quest for self-discovery, integration, and understanding. Uncover the transformative power of "The Red Book" and the enduring legacy of Carl Jung's profound insights. 📚🔑💫
🌌📖 #TheRedBook #CarlJung #JungianPsychology💭🔮 #UnconsciousMind #CollectiveUnconscious #Individuation🌟🌍 #Religion #Mythology #Transcendence🔍💡 #SelfDiscovery #Integration #PsychologicalInsights
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Monday Dec 05, 2022
Monday Dec 05, 2022
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A popular lecturer in the Jungian world, Beebe has spoken on topics related to the theory and practical applications of Analytical psychology to professional and lay audiences throughout the United States and around the world. He has been especially active in introducing training in Jungian psychology in China. Beebe is the founding editor of The San Francisco Jung Institute Library Journal, now called Jung Journal: Culture & Psyche.[2] He was the first American co-editor of the London-based Journal of Analytical Psychology.
Beebe has also published in The Chiron Clinical Series, Fort Da, Harvest, The Inner Edge, Journal of Jungian Theory and Practice, Psychoanalytic Psychology, Psychological Perspectives, The Psychoanalytic Review, Quadrant, Spring, The Journal of Popular Film and Television, Theory and Psychology, and Tikkun among others. He has contributed book chapters to The Anne Rice Reader, The Cambridge Companion to Jung, From Tradition to Innovation, House, Humanizing Evil, Initiation, Jungian Perspectives on Clinical Supervision, New Approaches to Dream Interpretation, Post-Jungians Today, Psyche & City, The Psychology of Mature Spirituality, Same-Sex Love, The Soul of Popular Culture, and Teaching Jung.
With Donald Sandner, Beebe is the author of "Psychopathology and Analysis",[3] an article on Jungian complex theory used in many training programs, and with Thomas Kirsch and Joe Cambray the author of "What Freudians Can Learn from Jung".[4] He is the author of the book Integrity in Depth, a study of the archetype of integrity, and of Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness.
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Sunday Nov 27, 2022
🏰Interview on Bollingen Tower with Martin Gledhill
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
Sunday Nov 27, 2022
📚💡 Exploring the Profound Insights of Carl Jung's "The Red Book" and the Essence of Jungian Psychology 🌌🔑🔮 Delve into the captivating world of Carl Jung's "The Red Book: Liber Novus," where the depths of the human psyche and the realm of the unconscious come to life. Jung considered the years he dedicated to pursuing inner images as the most crucial time of his life, from which everything else flowed. This enigmatic stream from the unconscious flooded him, leading him on a transformative journey of self-discovery and integration. 📖💭 "The Red Book" represents Jung's personal descent into the underworld, akin to the ancient Egyptian practice of opening the mouth of the dead. It is his "Book of the Dead," requiring the sacrifice of blood and the confrontation of unanswered questions from the realm of the deceased. Through this process, Jung realized that coming to terms with the dead is essential for true living, as our lives are intricately entwined with their unresolved queries. 👥🌌 The publication of "The Red Book" in 2009, almost a century after its inception, sparked both intrigue and debate. Although opinions vary on whether Jung would have chosen to publish the book during his lifetime, its significance to the psychologist cannot be understated. Revealed to only a select few confidants and family members, it was a formative period for Jung, exposing him to the depths of the collective unconscious and the forces of the deep mind. This experience profoundly influenced his subsequent work, shaping his theories and concepts concerning the unconscious and the repressed aspects of the human mind. 📚🔮 Jungian psychology, at its core, has two fundamental goals. Firstly, it seeks to integrate and understand the deepest, most repressed aspects of the human mind, paving the way for individuation—the process of becoming aware of and embracing one's true self. Secondly, it aims to navigate this profound exploration without being consumed by the unconscious forces uncovered along the way. It provides a psychological container and lens through which the self can be comprehended and clarified. 💡🔍 While not intended to be a religion, Jungian psychology serves a similar purpose by addressing the functions of the human need for religion, mythology, and the transcendental. It acts as a bridge to religion, encouraging psychology to explore and understand these aspects consciously. Jung hoped that by bringing awareness to the role of religion within humanity, his psychology could help foster a healthier and more mindful relationship with religious and transcendent experiences in our culture. 🌟🌍 Immerse yourself in the rich tapestry of Jungian psychology, where the exploration of the unconscious meets the quest for self-discovery, integration, and understanding. Uncover the transformative power of "The Red Book" and the enduring legacy of Carl Jung's profound insights. 📚🔑💫 🌌📖 #TheRedBook #CarlJung #JungianPsychology 💭🔮 #UnconsciousMind #CollectiveUnconscious #Individuation 🌟🌍 #Religion #Mythology #Transcendence 🔍💡 #SelfDiscovery #Integration #PsychologicalInsights Source: https://www.podbean.com/eau/pb-q9gf3-132ff80 Find more at:
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Monday Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
*Corrections and clarifications: - David Cronenberg directed A Dangerous Method - James Hillman's book is called A Terrible Love of War Dr. David Tacey: Exploring the Depths of Literature, Depth Psychology, and Spirituality 📚🌌🔍 We are delighted to introduce Dr. David Tacey, a distinguished professor in literature and depth psychology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. With a prolific career spanning eight books, including "Jung and the New Age" (2001), "The Spirituality Revolution" (2003), and "How to Read Jung" (2006), Dr. Tacey has made significant contributions to the field of psychology and spirituality. Born in Melbourne and raised in Alice Springs, central Australia, Dr. Tacey was deeply influenced by Aboriginal cultures, their religions, and cosmologies. This early exposure to indigenous wisdom and spirituality profoundly shaped his worldview. After completing his PhD at the University of Adelaide, he further honed his expertise as a Harkness Fellow in the United States under the guidance of James Hillman, a prominent figure in depth psychology. Dr. Tacey's scholarly pursuits also led him to lecture courses at the summer school of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, further enriching his understanding of Jungian psychology and its applications. For those who have grown up reading David Tacey's works, it is an exciting opportunity to engage with his ideas through this interview. Dr. Tacey's generosity shines through as he offers listeners the chance to request essays from academic journals that may no longer be in print. Simply reach out to him via email, and he will gladly share the requested essays in PDF format. Such accessibility is a testament to his commitment to spreading knowledge and fostering intellectual curiosity. While the resources, videos, and podcasts provided by Taproot Therapy Collective and its social media platforms offer valuable insights, it is important to remember that they do not replace professional mental health treatment. If you require assistance, it is essential to seek support from qualified mental health providers and contact emergency services in your area if necessary. Join the exploration of mysticism, psychology, religion, comparative religion, sociology, anthropology, depth psychology, psychoanalysis, and therapy by delving into Dr. David Tacey's writings and engaging with his fascinating ideas. #Mysticism #Psychology #Religion #ComparativeReligion #Sociology #Anthropology #DepthPsychology #Psychoanalysis #Freud #Psychotherapy #Therapy #Podcast #CarlJung #Mythology
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Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Andy Savage: A Multifaceted Artist Blending Rock and Visual Art 🎸🎨
Andy Savage is a tremendously talented artist, known for his contributions as the front man of the Parquet Courts, a groundbreaking rock band with seven acclaimed albums. Beyond his musical endeavors, Savage also showcases his artistic prowess through captivating visual art. His paintings exhibit elements reminiscent of Wassily Kandinsky's abstract expressionism, the playful modernism of Paul Klee, and the murals of Emil Bisttram.
In this interview, Savage generously shares insights into his artistic process and how his personality intertwines with his creative endeavors. It offers a unique opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of his artistry and the motivations behind his work.
Be sure to explore Savage's diverse body of work, both in music and visual art, through the following links:
Music: Visit the official Parquet Courts website at https://www.parquet-courts.com/ to dive into their groundbreaking rock compositions and immerse yourself in their distinctive sound.
Visual Art: Discover Savage's beautiful impressionist artwork by visiting his official website at https://a-savage.com/. Delve into his paintings and explore the visual realm where he expresses his artistic vision.
We are incredibly grateful for Savage's contributions to the world of art, both through his music and visual creations. His talent and creativity enrich our cultural landscape, leaving an indelible mark on the realms of rock, indie rock, punk, art rock, and fine art.
#parquetcourts #rock #indierock #musicians #psychology #therapy #psychotherapy #punk #punkrock #artrock #painting #art #artist #guitar #fineart
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Thursday Oct 27, 2022
👁️🗨️Does Brainspotting work? What to do when Brainspotting doesn’t work?
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
Thursday Oct 27, 2022
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Brainspotting is not a scam! It is an incredibly effective evidence based practice. I try to make videos about the most common phone calls we get at Taproot Therapy Collective. One of the calls that I get is that Brainspotting with a clinician in a another state or country just isn't working. There are thousands of BSP techniques. Patient's call because there clinician is not doing what I do in my videos, and that is fine! One of my favorite things about the BSP approach is that it is so open ended. I think that all of that freedom can be little overwhelming to new BSP clinicians. Especially clinicians coming from EMDR backgrounds. If you are a patient or a clinician having trouble processing with BSP these are some suggestions to help the process along. #Brainspotting #trauma #dualatunement #chaostheory #uncertaintyprinciple #EMDR #tailofthecomet #EMDR #therapy #PTSD #psychotherapy #cptsd #mbti #did
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Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB)—a medical procedure that effectively treats symptoms associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)—is an injection of local anesthetic in the neck to temporarily block the cervical sympathetic chain which controls the body’s fight-or-flight response. 💉🚫🏃♀️🏃♂️
SGB has been safely used for over 80 years for many other reasons but was discovered ten years ago to provide relief of PTSD symptoms as well. 🕰️⚕️ Since that time, along with a handful of other physicians, I have pioneered the use of SGB for treating posttraumatic stress within the US Army. 🎖️🇺🇸 Due to its safety, success rate, and rapid onset of relief, SGB has gained wide acceptance in several locations at US military hospitals where it has been available. 🏥🌍
Check out more information about SGB and its applications here: https://www.drjameslynch.com/ 💻🔬
#trauma #ganglion #PTSD #treatment #therapy #cptsd #psychotherapy #neurology #Vasovagal #anxiety #nervoussystem #neuroscienceFind more at: Taproot Therapy Collective
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Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
🦲The 3 Personalities of Karen Horney Feminist Psychoanalyst
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
Wednesday Sep 28, 2022
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Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her career came into prominence in the nineteentwenties when she formed theories on human attachment and neurosis that split from Freud’skey ideas. Horney’s theory of personality development and individuation are still highly relevantto modern theories of personality, attachment psychology and psychological trauma. Eventhough she is not well remembered, her work is as relevant as it was at the turn of the century.Applying her theories to my work with patients and to my own life has been an integral piece ofmy own personal and professional development. This article is part one of four in a seriesexplaining Horney’s theories.
At the time of this writing my daughter is two. Sometimes when my wife and I relax slightly inpublic, she will get a glimmer in her eye and, starting to giggle, run away from us. While we willyell for her to stop, she will cackle drunk with her new found power, as she runs away into acrowd of strangers or into oncoming traffic. When we take her to school or to meet new peopleshe wraps herself around my wife’s leg, pressing her cheek into my wife’s calf, and refuses toSpeak.
Two year old children cannot understand moderation or limitation. They demand to have “morefood” even when their plate is overflowing. Minutes later they will refuse to eat another bitebecause they are “full”. They cannot understand shades of gray. They refuse to believe thatthey need a nap until their eyes are closing. People are either all “bad guys” or all “good guys”.Individual children live in a world of extremes with tunnel vision on their immediate presentdesires and realities.
Infants do not understand that they are separate creatures from their mother. The firsttraumatic event in an infant’s life is the separation from the mother as the infantbecomes a toddler. Infants are connected to the mother for so much of their post birthexperience. In order to soothe infants we try to make them feel as though they are still in thewomb. We swaddle infants, keep them warm, and play white noise. The mother is both theirsource of physical comfort and nourishment. So much of the infant’s conscious experience iscentered on its connection to its mother, that it makes sense that infants would lack the ability tounderstand what they are outside of the central reality of their experience.
For the nine months in the womb an infant is physically and psychologically dependent on itsmother. It takes at least one and a half years after being born for infants to begin to piecetogether that they will have to eventually become something separate from their mother.Because infants cannot understand their existence without their mother, this means that whenthey are inevitably forced to separate from their mother, infants feel like their existence is underthreat. The necessary task of the mother is to separate the child from herself into itself. Yet, thisfeels to the child like it is being obliterated. This is often the first major trauma of a child’s life.
Karen Horney’s theory of personality and neurosis is built on examining its effect on an infant’sdevelopment. When toddlers begin to be separated from their mothers they experiencemoments where they, like my daughter, think they are God and can run through traffic. They arecompletely independant, completely free, can do things “by themself”, and will never needsupervision or approval from parents again. They quickly alternate into periods of abject terrorwhere they are horrified with their agency as an independent being and, often wrappingthemselves around her leg, attempt to remerge with their mother.
The distinction between infant and toddler is between a creature that can not live independentlyand a creature that sometimes thinks it can. Toddlers alternate between rejecting all authority tobecome a god and trying to crawl back into the womb in order to forget they exist. Our ego iswhat allows us to navigate the overwhelming forces of the unconscious. The ego allows us toaccept both our autonomy and reconcile our own ultimate insignificance. Toddlers are justbeginning to develop an ego that will synthesize these competing, and contradictory realities.As a trauma therapist I use Horney’s theories constantly. The connection between the way thatour parents give us attention and the way we learn to get attention from others in later life isendlessly relevant in many types of therapy, especially work with trauma. In Horney’s theory ofneurosis, the way that a child individuates from their mother determines their coping style andpredicts many of the psychological issues they may develop in later life.
Moving Towards People
Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her career came into prominence in the nineteentwenties when she formed theories on human attachment and neurosis that split from Freud’skey ideas. Horney’s theory of personality development and individuation are still highly relevantto modern theories of personality, attachment psychology and psychological trauma.Horney observed that children deploy three different coping styles during the time they areindividuating from the mother. Ideally children learn mastery in the three different styles. Inimperfect situations infants become over dependent in one style and form a neurotic and rigidpersonality style. This second part of a four part article will explore the moving towards peoplepersonality style.
The first coping strategy that children will attempt in order to retain the connection with themother during individuation is to ask for help Horney called this stage moving towards people.As infants we cry in order to make our mothers come running to our aid. If our mother’s continueto come running to our aid for the rest of childhood however, this can impair our development aswe fail to learn to solve our own problems internally or assert ourselves. In extreme caseswhere mothers will not separate from a child to allow room for experimentation with assertive
aggression or self soothing behavior the child becomes neurotic and co-dependant in themoving towards people style.People and characters with this level of impairment see the entire world in terms of their motherand never learn to make their own judgements or form their own values. What would motherthink of this? That is against mother’s rules. Another force like a charismatic leader, romanticpartner or social identity may replace the actual mother at some point, but the inability to be aseparate person will remain. Persons over dependent on another person or group’s ego haveno ability to self soothe without the warm glow of the surrogate mother’s approval and ability todefine rules and worth.
Horney calls this neurosis the need for affection and approval. The sense of self in people withthis personality type is incredibly diffuse as they are not able to watch others withdraw theirapproval even for good reason. The psychologist Albert Ellis used to tell his patients that “It ispathological to want to be liked by everybody all the time”. I often tell mine that “There are timeswhen the loving or the honest thing to do is to piss someone off”. When we cannot stand to seeour standards judged by other people it means that we cannot have a stable sense of self withauthentic standards for self worth.
This need often manifests as a form of codependency in relationships or friendships as peopletry to replace the stabilizing presence of a controlling caregiver with a different set of rules andboundaries. We learn to tolerate the anxiety of not knowing what to do and being forced tochoose early in life. When we have not been allowed to adapt to making small choices over thelife course we decompensate in the face of larger overwhelming choices about our life andIdentity.
In therapy I encounter patients who have had a controlling caregiver, and a correspondinginability to develop their own sense of identity. I start by asking them simple questions aboutwho they are. Patients with an underdeveloped sense of personal identity will often have noidea what their basic preferences and beliefs are. Often they will have found an abusive partneror a rigid social, political, or religious group to fill up the “blank” spaces in their identity with. Inhealthy partnerships we are allowed to maintain our own sense of identity while still participatingin a group affiliation or romantic partnership.
I always frame the therapy with these patients as an exciting adventure that we are going ontogether. We are going to discover who the patient is and who they want to become. Patients ofthis coping style often will try and figure out what the therapist wants them to do and what the“new rules” that the therapist has for their life are. Their primary fear is that they will dosomething “wrong” and don't know what the “right” answers are to their life questions. I tellpatients that “You are the only best expert in how to be you”.
While the freedom and gray area of this kind of personality development therapy is initiallyterrifying to patients, eventually this style of therapy becomes exhilarating as patients reconnectto a long absent sense of self. Even though patients present to therapy blank and indifferent about their, often abusive and traumatic history, they will start to recognize moments in the pastwhen they had a strong emotion or a preference that was dismissed by a caregiver or a partner.“I was so angry that my clothes were picked out for me every day”. “I was told that goodchristians don’t go to prom”.
Not all people in the moving towards people neurotic type will use a partner to try andcomplete their functioning. Oftentimes I have patients with social and intellectual gifts that useadmiration, fame or envy in order to move towards people. Many people seek fame or attention,but those with a moving towards people neurosis will not be able to function withoutadmiration of others. These patients are not able to determine the value or morality of theirbehavior without group approval.
Moving Against People
Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her career came into prominence in the nineteentwenties when she formed theories on human attachment and neurosis that split from Freud’skey ideas. Horney’s theory of personality development and individuation are still highly relevantto modern theories of personality, attachment psychology and psychological trauma. This thirdpart of a four part article will explore the moving against people personality style.
In Horney’s theory of individuation, the individuating child will settle into one of three differentpersonality styles based on what allows it to successfully reclaim its parent’s attention. The first style that children try is the moving towards people style. This is most familiar to the child since this is the style they are accustomed to using in infancy. If this asking for attention and attempting to be close to the mother through affection fail, the child will next try aggression in order to force it’s caregiver to give it what it wants. If only aggression is effective the child willsettle firmly into a moving against people personality style.
People in the moving against people personality style had sporadic or unpredictable affectionoffered to them as children. They came from environments that were hostile or uncaring andhandled the fundamental insecurity that these environments engendered by becomingaggressive. They never had the option of asking for the basic attention children need andinstead learned to demand attention. Caregivers were neglectful and unresponsive until thesefought for the little affection or attention available in their home.
This reality in their family of origin colors these patient’s interpersonal style and assumptionsabout the world. These assumptions about others and the world are immediately recognizable inthe first few minutes of the first therapy session when a patient in the moving against peoplepersonality style presents to therapy. Patients in the moving against people personality style are not likely to come to therapy and do not usually present to therapy until they are in crisis orare facing significant personal or professional losses due to their rigidity.
Just as patients in the moving towards people personality type often have anger turned off,patients in the moving against people personality type are often out of touch with their abilityto feel hurt or vulnerable. To ward this feeling off patients in theis personality style develop a“don’t mess with me” defensive posture. They may use wit as a weapon becoming acerbicallyfunny. They maybe overly macho or simply act like they don’t care what anyone thinks.
Most often patients who are neurotic in the moving against people personality style are highlycompetitive and motivated to dominate athletics, group functions and professional environments. Patients in this style are often high achievers when they are skilled. They areseen as invulnerable at work but often feel hollow in personal spheres. They are unable tounderstand the point of life without comparison and competition. Patients often present totherapy in middle age when there is “nothing else left to win”.
Moving Away From People
Karen Horney was a German psychoanalyst. Her career came into prominence in the nineteentwenties when she formed theories on human attachment and neurosis that split from Freud’skey ideas. Horney’s theory of personality development and individuation are still highly relevantto modern theories of personality, attachment psychology and psychological trauma.
Horney observed that children deploy three different coping styles during the time they areindividuating from the mother. Ideally children learn mastery in the three different styles. Inimperfect situations infants become over dependent in one style and form a neurotic and rigidpersonality style. This second part of a four part article will explore the moving away frompeople personality style.
Horney’s three neurotic personality styles can most simply be understood as dependency (moving towards people), Aggression (moving against people) and resignation (moving away from people). The resigned type is the result of the developing child discovering that they are unable to get the attention of the parent either through asking for attention or demanding it. The child then retreats into an innerworld where it creates its own systems of psychological reward through creativity and self expansion.
If you are a writer or a psychotherapist it is highly likely that you are strongly developed in thisarea even if you are not quite a neurotic! The ability to move into your head and create your ownrules and concepts for life is a useful skill, but not one we learn from asking or demandingattention from our parents. These personality types are more able to see through the arbitrarynature of the rules or traditions in a society, and have less attachment to the cultural rules.
Unless these children develop ways of communicating these inner worlds they can seem“spacey” or “lost in their thoughts”. All of the neuroses that Horeney observes can be understood as the limiting conditions that a person with insecure attachment has for being safe. The dependent type needs others to feel safe, while the aggressive type needs control. A person in the “moving away from people” neurotic type only feels safe when some inner condition of solitude or independance has been fulfilled. This ultimate value of independence can present in several ways. Some want to be invisible, living an unassuming and private life. Sometimes the fixation on independence manifests and living off the land, being wealthy, and sometimes as being emotionally independent. Patients in this style may emulate, Jay Gatsby, Jeremiah Johnson or John Wayne.
The moving away from people’s personality type is not comfortable unless they are absolutelyindependent in some special area. While the moving towards people type needs people in orderto function, and the moving against people personality type needs people in order to becomedominant, the moving away from people type feels unsafe if it needs people for anythingsubstantial. This does not mean that they are unsuccessful socially, only that they areuncomfortable with relying on social or emotional ties to others in order to feel stable. This typefailed to maintain a connection with their mother through either dependence seeking oraggressive behaviors.
They learned to soothe themselves and learned their own coping skills.This process of learning to regulate ones own emotions as a child without assistance leadschildren into their own head where they develop a large and elaborate inner world. Childrenbecome less interested or even aware of external realities like norms, socially, or practicaltasks. Instead of learning to manage their feelings they become fascinated with them.
Moving away from people personality type patients have a unique knack for encoding their beliefs, personality and opinions into artistic creations because they crave the recognition andunderstanding that was denied them by their caregivers as children. Art, humor, fashion,business even, is a way of communicating something about the hidden self to others.
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Sunday Sep 25, 2022
👶🖍The Child Archetype 6/6
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
Sunday Sep 25, 2022
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The Child is a tricky archetype to find within ourselves. The Child is the first archetype that the self identifies with. The Child has no problem asking for help or expressing it’s emotions and desires loudly and honestly. The Child is a kind of creative anarchy that we lose as adults and rediscover during liminal and transitional spaces in our development. The Child is a freedom we reconnect with when we release the parts of ourselves that have held us back. The Child is the “alive” feeling that addicts begin to connect with after completing recovery. The Child is strongly associated with the unconscious and a sense of connectedness to all things. Children are still discovering the things that make them unique individuals. The Child is growth and Children know how to grow instinctively.
The Child does not remember all of the rules that we had to learn as adults and is more interested in its own creative impulses and whims than rules or deadlines. The Child is necessary for art and for self discovery, but it can become solipsistic when it is over indulged. The Child puts us in touch with vulnerability but it cares about its own emotions, desires and whims. It is not aware of others or their wants or needs. The Child is important to creatives because it is the source of new ideas and perspectives but it needs to be tempered lest we become selfish, oblivious and inwardly focused.
In adulthood is the process of losing touch with the vulnerability and capacity for growth that we felt as children. Adults come to believe that the limiting voice of their inner critic is “responsible” and that asking for help or admitting vulnerability is “weak”. Many times the process of therapy forces us to uncover our own vulnerable child and reconnect with the parts of ourselves that are hurting or scared. When we cannot honestly admit our own needs, fears and sadness we often over complicate our life.
Patients who are over identified with the Child may present to therapy lost in creative visions and emotional whims. While over identified with the Child, these patients will be oblivious or in denial about the practical and detail oriented responsibilities of adult life. They may be prone to bouts of drug use or personal vision quests and passion projects. Patients will often overly identify with the Child as a response to their families of origin having pathological Queen archetypes that stifled development. In college or as adults they cast aside all responsibilities and overcompensate for the constraints of their childhood with an overly juvenile outlook on responsibility.
Patients under identified with their Child will present to therapy asking the therapist to produce pragmatic and concrete changes in their lives and relationships. They often come from families led by an over identified King or Warrior that had no interest in the uncertainty or self discovery of the Child archetype. They are rote and uninterested in the abstractions of therapy, art, or life. These patients have little interest in getting in touch with the vulnerabilities or flights of fancy of the Child.
We are all born into the world as a vulnerable Child, as naïve beings that see the world as an unending canvas on which to paint our vision for ourselves. These tendencies are idealistic, but also natural. Material realities impose restrictions on our lives, and we are remiss to ignore them, but also waste the potential meaning in our lives if we become their slaves. Rediscovering the child is necessary for personal growth and healing required to make progress in therapy. The Child is not only creativity and growth, but also our innate resilience. Patients who rediscover the Child during a chronic illness may make recoveries whereas patients who do not may not.
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Friday Sep 23, 2022
💖The Lover Archetype 5/6
Friday Sep 23, 2022
Friday Sep 23, 2022
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The Lover is one of the most difficult archetypes to notice that you are experiencing. By its very nature it is seductive and spontaneous. The Lover is most commonly associated with sex, but sex is the smallest part of the archetype. You cannot experience the Lover by yourself, but you do not necessarily have to experience it with another person. Anytime you are pulled into an alluring daydream, swept up in the rhetoric of a rousing speech, or moved to a sense of greater understanding by a work of art or fiction, you are beginning to fall into the embrace of the Lover. The Lover is a drum circle, it is staring deeply into a bonfire, it is a poem about time, a drug trip. The Lover can be an infinite amount of things.
The Lover is most easily understood as our ability to give up a small part of ourselves to become part of something greater. The Lover is our ability to merge with another person or a group of people. The Lover lets us dissolve part of our own ego to be a part of a greater purpose or force of society. If we do not have access to the Lover we are completely alone, completely with purpose and life becomes an abstraction. We are connection making creatures and it is the Lover archetype that allows us to make those connections.
Because The Lover requires us to give up a piece of ourselves in order to identify with it, over identification with The Lover can be disastrous. Patients over identified with The Lover might try to dissolve themselves passionately into each many new relationships or over identify with each new friend. Extreme over identification with The Lover leaves patients with no sense of self. These patients will operate in society as chameleons. Over identification with the Lover is over identification with something outside of oneself. They will continue to find religious, romantic, or social relationships that let them take on someone else’s identity and concept of self.
When working with patients with substance abuse problems therapists should be very aware of the functioning of the lover archetype. Addiction is often understood by therapists as an attempt to numb out painful emotions or memories, and while this interpretation is correct it is also an incomplete understanding of what addiction is. Substance abuse is always fueled by a desperate attempt to have connection with something. The loneliness and isolation that patients with substance abuse issues feel is an extreme under identification with the lover archetype and the hunger for the wholeness of the lover is often the emotional state sought by the addicted person.
I always tell my patients that an addiction is often a hunger for growth with a simultaneous refusal to change. Substance abuse provides the feeling of growth and connection without the actual work or risk. Drugs like alcohol and stimulants often activate the Lover by making us feel productive, creative, loved or accepted. Drugs like depressants or psychedelics often activate the Lover by allowing us to turn off our conscious mind and remerge with the world. Psychedelics and transcendental religious practices often allow a person to experience ego death or a “oneness” with all things. This form of ultimate connectedness is the most activated state of the archetype as we have completely given up our own identity.
The Lover requires us to have the ability to trust something outside of ourselves and may be difficult for patients with trauma to experience without anxiety. We first learn how safe it is to open up to others within our family of origin. Patients that have a strong under identification with The Lover often never felt safe in their families of origin. Patients over identified with the Lover might have had a parent over identified with their Queen and are used to finding a controlling partner. If someone has made us a puppet then we involuntarily find a puppeteer when we leave our families of origin. These patients often become codependent in relationships, looking for someone to give their life rules and meaning. They believe they are unable to do this for themselves.
The Lover is an often ignored archetype, but is needed to give the other archetypes any ability to operate. What is the cause that the Warrior fights for, where is the growth or the creativity of the Child without The Lover? For that matter, what is the grand vision of a King or control of the Queen without the ability to make a connection? For a patient to participate in a relationship with a therapist there must be some part of the Lover archetype active. Therapy requires trust and a dissolution of boundaries enough for the therapist and patient to collaborate on treatment. We cannot begin to benefit in therapy unless we give up some part of our old self and are willing to be open to creating a new self image. Resistance to the therapy process can also be understood as a resistance to experience this archetype
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Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
The Magician Archetype 4/6
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
Wednesday Sep 21, 2022
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The Magician is intuition, education, and reflexes. In myth and legend the Magician appears in stories not to be the hero, but to aid the hero on their quest. In these stories the Magician can also take the form of a witch, enchanter, or shaman. The Magician is the most esoteric part of our schooling that filled us with the most passion. The Magician is a sense of personal power and accomplishment, but not power gained through conflict like the Warrior. Power for the Magician comes through cleverness, tricks and being resourceful and inventive.
To the Warrior knowledge, secrets and intrigue make one strong, not brute strength. The Magician is a wiseman and a diviner, both prescient and empathic. The magician can act as a negotiator or statesman, but is more commonly a salesman, seducer, or an entertainer. The Magician stands with one foot in two worlds. He is a gatekeeper between the abstract clairvoyant realm of the unconscious and the practical and results oriented world of the everyday. He brings back visions from the world of the unconscious and bestows them as gifts on others. This power to surprise and interest others is closely tied to our own need for attention. Patients that did not get the attention they desired as children will often have a well developed Magician. These patients believed as children that something about them was bad or shameful, and developed their magician archetype as a way of being seen or having control.
It is the Magician that impresses others with insights, funny stories and hidden talents. It is the Magician that is able to stand out in a bar room or business meeting when others are vying for attention. The Magician is our ingenuity, and adaptability in the face of situations that we cannot plan for or control. The Magician is our ability to read between the lines in academic domains, to see the broader point or meaning beyond a text. Every insight or inspiration that you have ever pulled from the ether and used to your advantage feels like magic. If you are comfortable pulling clever observations and realizations from the unconscious and putting them to use then you are strongly identified with the Magician.
Patients may be under identified with their Magician if they were brought up to be rule oriented or understand the world only as a series of lists to be memorized. These patients are not intuitive but learn by memorizing a series of steps that became a crutch for their thinking. Patients under identified with their own Magician will distrust the Magician in others. They are not adaptable and are inflexible in their thinking. Patients who view people that are funny or creative with suspicion are likely to be under identified with their own Magician.
Patients who are over identified with the Magician may have a grandiose idea of what their intellect or insight will get them out. They may think genius will solve every problem without elbow grease. They may try to use a charming personality or a quick wit to escape hard work or interpersonal conflict. Patients who are deeply dismayed over poor academic performance despite no effort at study will be over identified with the Magician. These patients are often under identified with their Warrior because they have never learned to overcome situations their intuition cannot control or to work hard for a reward.
The fundamental anxiety that the magician assuages is the inability to control one’s surroundings. The Magician is at its root a personality device developed to maintain control during a period in a person’s life when assertiveness was not allowed.
This was often a way to hold on to some control of our environment when direct confrontation was not an option. The Magician can also develop in early childhood when a child feels like there is a need in the family of origin that neither caregiver can meet. This is often a wounded or unreliable caregiver the child has to manage. This leads to the development of an often “magical” seeming ability to read others, read between the lines, and communicate in indirect ways like art and humor.
A patient who is over identified with both the Warrior and the Magician may try to dominate others with their intellect, delighting in the humiliation they cause. After all the cynic is the shadow of the caregiver. A caregiver sees the needs of others in order to meet them. The cynic sees the same needs in others, but uses them to exploit or write off other people. This cynic is the shadow side of the magician’s ability to use intuition to understand others. An example in pop culture would be the stand up comic that summarizes and denigrates groups of people with acerbic insight.
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Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
⚔️The Warrior Archetype 3/6
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
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The Warrior archetype allows us to harness our own sense of personal power to face fear and assert our own energy against the plans of others and the plans of the universe. The Warrior allows us to enforce boundaries securely between ourselves and others. It lets us carve out our own sense of personal space and make clear to others what is allowed and what is not. Mankind has had a warrior class as long as there has been civilization. We must all at some point in life learn to face our fears and accomplish something scary. The psychologist Albert Ellis was fond of saying that it was “pathological to want to be liked by everyone all the time”. He knew wisely that we must all learn to face conflict and navigate disagreements with others to remain true to ourselves and our journey.
The Warrior is our actualized capacity for self-expansion, personality development and discovery. We cannot discover who we are meant to be unless we are brave enough to face the unknown and know we deserve to grow. The Warrior is our capability to develop and use our talents for personal and professional achievement, but the Warrior does not exercise leadership or hold authority. The Warrior is not power within systems, only our sense of personal power and competency. The Warrior is our own success within a system of many other Warriors. The Warrior is our own unique abilities harnessed to make ourselves succeed.
Each of the archetypes deals with some form of fundamental anxiety, and the anxiety that the warrior assuages is meaninglessness in the face of chaos. The enemy of the warrior is chaos. When chaos surrounds us we feel like we are not special, like there is no plan, like we do not matter. The Warrior allows us to impose our will into the void and create meaning from scratch. When we feel like life has no purpose, it is our Warrior energy that lets us create purpose. While this function of the Warrior is not a bad thing when it becomes overindulged it becomes the shadow function of tribalism.
While the Warrior lets us strike back at chaos when it threatens our meaning and significance it can also lead us to turn on other people who are not like us.
The over-identified Warrior sees other people as chaos when they act contra its own plans and meaning. Shadow political and religious leaders often call us to over-identify with the Warrior when they tell us to defend our own tribe against attacks from those who are different and would take away what is ours. The Warrior is what allows us to reclaim our purpose and significance when the world threatens to take these things away from us but when overindulged it robs others of these things.
Patients who are under-identified with the Warrior will feel listless, purposeless, and incapable. These patients will often have had their Warrior taken away in an abusive relationship or in their families of origin where they were not allowed to assert themselves. Often they will present to therapy with a general sense of anxiety, believing they lack the power to be assertive, enforce boundaries or change their current reality when it distresses them. Losing touch with the Warrior leads a person to be fearful and conflict avoidant yet be prone to bouts of rage. Without the Warrior we can not act on our anger and do not notice it until it takes us over.
Over identification with the Warrior means that we see every interaction as a challenge, every challenge a fight with a winner and a loser. When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem is a nail; the old saying goes. If you are over-identified as a Warrior, you will not be able to back down from any confrontation. A diplomacy is never an option to the Warrior. The Warrior is not an archetype that is comfortable accepting humility or the mystery. The warrior is only comfortable with certainty, but as adults, we must learn to be comfortable with the mystery of life. An over-identified warrior archetype might benefit the occasional type-a personality in the business world but most often at the expense of personality development, healthy relationships, and a well-rounded existence.
The Warrior is the mask that we wear when we want to see ourselves as the hero. Patients under-identified with the Warrior may have lost the ability to see themselves as the hero, where patients over-identified with the Warrior may not be able to take off the mask of the hero they aspire to be. The Warrior archetype requires that life and development has taught us to have faith in ourselves and a self-image that allows us to achieve our dreams. Many patients with damage in childhood do not know that they have a right to their own hero’s journey or deserve self-discovery. Oftentimes therapy with traumatized patients will require a therapist to teach patients how to put on the warrior mask.
Under Identification with the Warrior is a disowning of one’s powerful self and ability to act heroically or make meaning. The warrior is at its base an ability to make meaning out of life. If we have disowned the warrior we either see life as meaningless or rely on others to make it for us as followers. Oftentimes patients who have learned that anger is not allowed will try and disown the warrior and “play zen” to avoid the anxiety that conflict causes for them. These patients will often act as though conflict is beneath them when in truth judging or disagreeing with others terrifies them.
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Monday Sep 19, 2022
👸The Queen Archetype 2/6👑
Monday Sep 19, 2022
Monday Sep 19, 2022
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The Queen is the power behind power and the maternal influence on development. The Queen is the indirect power that we hold over authority and systems just as the magician is the indirect power we hold over peers and our immediate vicinity. She is every calculated comment that ever made you reconsider your own behavior. She is every raised eyebrow that made you behave. The Queen is long talks by the fire with a loved one about your own worst impulses. She is tempering to power, but when over identified with she becomes a manipulative puppet master behind the throne, a Bloody Mary.
The Queen uses her influence over the powerful to exercise her own power. If this concept is lost on you, then you are likely under identified with your own Queen. If this is the case, be careful, because it is the patients under identified with their own Queen who are most susceptible to be influenced by the Queen of others. If we do not understand the art of manipulation, we have no defenses against it. The Queen is, by her very nature, the least recognized archetype. The Queen is the thing behind the thing. She is the unnoticed influence on the world. The Queen is the reason that the people in charge behave better than they otherwise would.
The Queen is a mothering impulse in all of us. She sits close to our Anima or archetype of the feminine. The Queen is the part of us that wants to see the people around us grow and flourish under our watchful gaze. The Queen smiles as her children and her husband mistake her subtle suggestions for their own ideas. She is the master of the understated and implied. The Queen is consigliere, advisor, right hand man, and second in command.
The fundamental insecurity behind the Queen is the fear that power is incompetent or malevolent. Patients with an over developed Queen usually had a competitive parent or a parent that viewed them as a peer in childhood. Like patients with an overdeveloped Magician, the child with an overdeveloped Queen may have worn this anxiety like a badge of honor in childhood. However, also like the child with an over developed Magician this damaged the child, leaving them hyper vigilant and trapped with an exhausting control instinct. Unlike patients with an over developed Magician, patients with an overdeveloped Queen felt responsible for running a household by proxy and controlling an irascible or inconsistent parent. They did not seek to be understood or get attention from a caregiver like children with an overidentified Magician.
Patients that present to therapy reporting that they are the “therapist for all their friends” or that “everyone asks them for advice” have a healthy identification with their Queen. The over identified Queen is not content to advise power, but wants to control it from the shadows as a puppeteer. Overidentification with the Queen leads patients to become obsessed with subtly influencing other people as extensions of themselves and power. Manipulative patients, who begin to hold their altruism over the heads of those they are helping are on the road to over identification with the Queen. Therapists should be aware of the functioning of this archetype, as it is the role of the therapist to play The Queen in the patient’s life during the process of therapy.
The over identified Queen as a mother does not want children to develop as individuals outside of the family or have a personal identity. Children are to remain a part of her and only exist as her accessory and a reflection of her purposes and her values. The over identified Queen wants to know all her children’s secrets, and to get to tell them exactly who they should become. Because patients who had a mother over identified with her own Queen never had the chance to listen to their own inner voice during development they will present to therapy with a bothersome inner critic that reflects the internalized critical voice of the parent. This overwhelming voice of inner criticism is the implanted voice of the parent that did not want their Child to exist outside their own sphere.
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Sunday Sep 18, 2022
🤴The King Archetype 1/6👑
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
Sunday Sep 18, 2022
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The King is our sense of systemic power or our sense of power within society . The King is both the father of the family and of society. He has a larger plan for others and sees how all pieces of the system work and what different types of people need. This larger plan comes from creativity and imagination, but it is the practical imagination of planning and developing communities and systems. The King not only wants to improve himself, but to improve others linked to him as an extension of himself. The appropriately identified King is a proud father.
We need the King in order to manage our households, supervise employees, or volunteer in leadership roles. The fundamental anxiety the King manages is the fear that there is no larger plan structuring others lives. The King fears anarchy. The King lets us take the reins and provide leadership when we see that no one else can. The King is able to organize the many individual Warriors behind a single banner. The King is order, organization and unity.
It is healthy and positive to have a vision for a better world that we would like to see our life and works contribute toward. Without the King we cannot have hope for our families or for the world. Patients who were raised being systematically excluded or oppressed are likely to be under identified with their King. If society has rejected or oppressed them their entire lives they have been taught that it doesn’t want them, and will have difficulty believing others will let them lead. If we do not believe we have any power over the world, it is difficult to function within it. These patients will be plagued with interpersonal difficulty until the under identification is resolved.
Patients under identified with their King will avoid any position where they have responsibility for or power over others. They were often punished for being angry or assertive in their families of origin and felt they were not allowed to hold power. Often these patients will have anger “turned off” and have extreme anxiety when circumstances force them to judge others, even accurately, or when they are angry. These patients will have difficulty reconciling anxiety when they have a moral standard that others violate. They do not want to let go of their own moral compass but also are uncomfortable when others fail at being moral or good by their own standard.
Patients who are under identified with their King may be highly competent and successful, but still remain highly individual and atomized, clinging to solely personal power or adhere to strict moral standards they refuse to apply to others. . They may express hopelessness or even contempt for ideas relating to improving family or government systems, even though they could otherwise be highly successful in either.
Patients over identified with their King will mistrust and criticize all authority because it is not their own. They will play contrarian during any discussion of politics or religion and often family issues. They will often get into conflicts with superiors at work but secretly feel unheard or misunderstood. During these times they are reliving their experiences in their own families of origin. Extreme identification with the King will leave patients listless and unsatisfied no matter how much power they attain. Extreme over identification with the King means that there is no amount of power that will ever make one feel fulfilled. Life becomes a competition. It does not become a competition with individuals like the warrior, but a competition with all “great” men from history. Total overidentification makes one want to hold power and influence over others in every domain of life.
Patients over identified with their King will rarely present for therapy of their own volition. These patients can become tyrants to their friends, families and colleagues. Even though these patients may do things that society would consider immoral they will never see themselves as evil. These patients see themselves as saviors that want to save an unappreciative society or family by making them great. Patients who are under identified with their Magician and Warrior often over identify with their King in order to compensate for their failure to develop their own domain of internal (intuition) or external (accomplishment )personal power. These patients often are prone to fantasies about what would happen if they were in charge. They will never see themselves as immoral, but only as misunderstood heroes.
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Thursday Sep 08, 2022
☄️Astrophobia: Why are so many trauma patients afraid of space?🌌
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Our phobias are often metaphors for our most unconscious parts of self. In the 2013 movie Gravity, Sandra Bullock plays an astronaut marooned in space. At every moment she is seconds from spinning into the hopeless oblivion of deep space. Bullock’s character must use her ingenuity to navigate the shuttles and space stations to find her way back to earth. During her time in space Bullock is haunted by trauma from her past. Numerous shots suggest that her time in space causes her to regress to infancy and face not only trauma but primal childhood fear.
It’s fairly common for patients with insecure or reactive attachment to have had an intense fear of darkness as children. Some of them still have a fear of the dark as adults. Darkness takes away the control and awareness that our eyesight provides us. Children who learn that mystery and uncertainty are not safe spaces come to fear the dark. It takes secure attachment to learn that we can go into the great unknown and survive its surprises.
I work primarily as a trauma therapist and a surprising large number of trauma patients have a fear of outer space. So many that I have started to ask if patients have a fear of outer space when certain things come up in therapy. Patients are shocked that I am able to detect such a specific and seemingly bizarre phobia.
Why outer space? We might encounter spiders, or snakes in our everyday routine but outer space is something few people have a direct encounter with. Why do our primal fears manifest as a fear of space?
At a surface level it might not seem to make sense. However space is an extended metaphor for many of our most basic fears. For one space is dark. It is cold. It is inhospitable to us. People that feel unwelcome or incapable can project this inadequacy on the impossibility of surviving in space.
On another level space represents a complete lack of control and orientation. There is no up or down. Every direction leads to the same hopeless void. There is no gravity. There is no ability to center ourselves. These extreme conditions manifest the lack of our most basic needs for orientation control and power.
Most mythological systems begin with a primal void. Water is added to the void and then land. This archetype appears in almost every creation myth. Space represents a reality stripped of the basic elements we need to survive.
Space threatens the importance of all the things our ego needs to maintain integrity. Space represents the ultimate existential threat to all of the projects we create and all the things we identify ourselves with to make meaning. The most ambitious human projects mean nothing from the window of a rocket. Even the great wall of china is a thin line. The Vatican is a tiny dot. Our families, our careers, our religions, our sports teams… all of these things fail to matter in the midst of the cosmos. Space represents the ultimate existential annihilation. It reminds us of our ultimate limitations against the enormous scale of the universe.
When starting trauma therapy we must find our worst fear in order to confront and overcome it. Many times imagining space is the best place to start because it encompasses so many of our fears. What does space make you think of? What parts of it frighten you?
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Monday Sep 05, 2022
🌠Existentialism vs Mysticism: What is the Ego Self Axis?
Monday Sep 05, 2022
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Monday Aug 08, 2022
🧩Tamar Stone Interview: Voice Dialogue and Body Dialogue
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Monday Jul 25, 2022
🪕🎻The Psychology of Music with Tim Rutili of Califone
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Monday Jul 25, 2022
Tim Rutili is the lead singer and songwriter of the dream like mythological soundscapes of the band Califone. He sits down to talk about the depth psychology behind his life and work. His other projects include contributions to the bands Red Red Meat, Loftus, Ugly Casanova and the fil All My Friends Are Funeral Singers. I have been a life long fan of his projects and we are grateful for his time.
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Monday Jul 11, 2022
🌆Interview with Urban Planner and Architect, Andres Duany
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Monday Jul 11, 2022
Subscribe to the podcast: https://GetTherapyBirmingham.podbean.com/e/astrophobia-why-are-so-many-trauma-patients-afraid-of-space/ Join Andres Duany, acclaimed author and urban planner, as he delves into the psychology of architecture and urban planning in the second part of our series: 📚🌇 #PsychologyOfArchitecture Discover the transformative power of well-planned towns and the archetypal elements of design on the human psyche: 🌳🧠 #UrbanPlanning #DesignPsychology Learn from the expertise of Mr. Duany, renowned for his work in Seaside, Florida; Kentlands, Maryland; and Alys Beach, Florida: 🏙️🏡 #AndresDuany #NewUrbanism Don't miss this insightful discussion on the psychological forces shaping our built environment: 🗣️🏗️ #PsychologyOfUrbanPlanning For more information, visit Taproot Therapy Collective: 🌿🤝 #TaprootTherapyCollective Website: https://gettherapybirmingham.com/ Address: 2025 Shady Crest Dr Suite 203 Hoover, AL 35216 Email: Admin@GetTherapyBirmingham.com Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/cnverPNUPuxiPkbc8 Podcast: https://gettherapybirmingham.podbean.com/ Phone: (205) 598-6471 Fax: 205-634-3647 Uncover the intersection of psychology, architecture, and urbanism with Andres Duany: 🌇📚 #PsychologyOfArchitecture #UrbanDesign #Architecture #Architect #Urbanism #UrbanPlanning #NewUrbanism #CongressForTheNewUrbanism #DesignPsychology #SeasideFL #AlysBeach
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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In my house, like in most houses in America there is a fireplace. My wife and I do not often use our fireplace. In fact, I am not even sure if it works. Now that there are more efficient forms of heating installed in most homes there is really no need for fireplaces, but they continue to be built all the same. Any interior decorator or homemaker worth their salt will tell you that whether or not a fireplace works it cannot be blocked, and furniture must be placed so that people can gather around it. The style of houses that we build today are still based on the same basic floor plan of the ancient Roman style of architecture. In Rome, houses were built around a lares, or hearth fires, where penates, ancestral gods of the family, were revered and guarded the home.
Even though most Americans could not tell you why the hearth is afforded such significance, it is still agreed upon in western design language that the hearth is significant. The origin of the hearth idea in western architecture is one example of the many ways that the religious impulse indirectly recognizes a connection to our ancestors. As humans we long for transpersonal and trans-generational connectedness. Jungian oriented therapists help clients cultivate the transcendental and reflective skills that a well-developed spiritual dimension brings into our lives.
Inhale, exhaleForward, backLiving, dying:Arrows, let flown each to eachMeet midway and sliceThe void in aimless flightThus I return to the source.
–Japanese Death PoemGesshu Soko, died January 10, 1696, at age 79:
Stephen Jenkins is a palliative care counselor and writer that I admire. In his writing, he makes the argument that western culture has an unhealthy avoidance of the reality of death. Jenkins writes that that the fear of death in our society has robbed us of a spiritual dimension and tools for everyday life that ancient civilizations have always had. Acceptance of one’s own mortality and acknowledging one’s ancestors are directly related concepts. Jenkins’ argument is that acceptance of death is what gives a culture the ability to make meaning and understand its own story. If we deny or disregard death as an important part of our human experience, then we can never make meaning of our own lives. We must embrace this important part of our humanity if we are to be able to make ourselves whole (Wilson, T 2009).
As a society we hide children from the dying, and often even from the elderly; not allowing young people to understand this important stage in the life journey. We do not value the wisdom of the aged; we simply treat their cultural experience as out of date. It is our general cultural practice to pretend that we are immortal. We hide from death and all the trappings of death until it is too late. We wait until we are at the end of our life journey and we have not developed any tools to help us understand how to die. This practice is to our own deficit and the deficit of our culture. Jenkins argues in his interviews that our culture needs to embrace death and the process of dying in order to reclaim the spirituality our culture has lost (Wilson, T 2009).
It’s your life. You don’t know how long it’s going to be but you know it’s got a bad ending.
–Don DraperMad Men; Season 2, Episode 9
Spirituality in most religions contains a meditative or contemplative component used to orient one’s priorities, clarify goals and values, and discover one’s own personal identity and agency within the world. Although spirituality is a vague concept that can mean many things to many people, most therapists agree on the importance of spirituality in the therapeutic process. One of the major benefits of spirituality in therapy is that spirituality assists clients in understanding their place in the world, and helps clients accept their own finitude and mortality. This is true whether a person’s spiritual tradition advocates belief in an afterlife, a multi-layered reality, or simply a scientific materialist understanding of the world. Regardless of an individual’s spiritual tradition, an active spiritual life will help a therapist engage an individual in important reflective personal questions.
Personal spirituality is different from organized religion. Developing one’s own personal spirituality distinct from the organized religion you participate in is important because it allows individuals to answer questions and face struggles unique to their own life. There is much diversity between different individuals’ life course trajectories. What works for one person may not work for another person. Developing one’s own personal spiritual dimension inside or outside of an organized religion increases an individual’s self-efficacy and individual human capacity for choice-making.
A robust spiritual dimension allows individuals to solve problems that arise in the life course in the best way for them, according to their own strengths and weaknesses. This self-efficacy is an important protective factor for individuals as they develop throughout the life course. This protective factor can help individuals avoid many problems as they traverse the various stages of life.
In the book The Denial of Death, Ernest Becker puts forth a hypothesis that won him the Pulitzer Prize, and changed the way many cognitive theorists thought about therapy. Becker argued that human cognition is a defense mechanism against the knowledge that we must die. Many drives within humanity are attempts to make ourselves immortal and find ways of obtaining spiritual immortality. Becker put forward the idea that anxiety, depression, and even psychosis can be attributed to the breakdown in our immortality seeking processes. Becker argued that human beings long for secular and religious accomplishments because we believe that these will make us immortal. Becker argued that cognitive problems arise when our culture lacks the spiritual and numinous dimension that allows us to understand death and accept our finitude (Becker, E. 1973).
The part of Becker’s theory that is most applicable to therapy and social work practice is his idea of immortality. Becker’s idea of immortality is much more involved than simply an idea of an afterlife in popular culture and religion. In The Denial of Death immortality is the way that a person finds their significance, self-worth, and meaning in relation to the universe (Becker, E. 1973).
We attain spiritual immortality when we have a well-developed spiritual dimension that allows us to feel connected to the past, others in the present and to future generations. It is this connectedness that allows us to feel spiritually immortal and come to terms with our mortality. In the ancient world heroic deeds and religious traditions were an attempt to feel connectedness to a numinous reality larger than the time ancients lived within. Becker argues that nothing but spirituality of some kind can give humans the connectedness to the fabric of our world and provide us the spiritual immortality we long for.
One of the reasons that Becker’s theories were so successful is that they build on the basic assumption that all human beings know at a fundamental level that we will one day die. Because of this we are all in a sense already dead. This knowledge is an intrinsic part of our humanity that we must learn how to handle, or it will lead us to destroy ourselves. The reason that this is important to include in a discussion of spirituality in psychotherapy practice is that this theory of therapy makes spirituality an essential component in the therapeutic process. The problem of death in our own and in our clients’ lives must be solved in order to live a fulfilling life. This cannot be done without the transcendent quality of spiritual practice.
In my own life I find Becker’s spiritual immortality in what will be preserved of me in how I change the world for the better. I personally have no interest in the concept of the afterlife in my own religious tradition, but I do not need that to feel motivated and important. Sharing love that changes the lives of those around me and the lives of those they will touch is where I find immortality. What will be preserved of me is the impression that I leave on this world through how I live my life and affect the lives of others.
The presence of me will be preserved by people who likely do not recognize or understand what they are preserving. We are all released into the earth, and into the stuff of the heart, and the mind, the character of others, and the lives of everyone who antecedes us. A piece of the things that are part of me will become part of everyone whom I become a part of. The things that made me who I am did not come only from me; but also from those before me and how they shaped the world. The juice of ourselves was never ours, but something we borrowed from countless others. This is not something that would make sense to everyone, but it is what makes sense to me.
Life is chaotic and overwhelming to the best of us. To understand it we need a lens to view our world in a way that makes sense to us. When we develop our own spiritual dimension it can act as the lens that lets us understand our world. Our personal spirituality tells us why we are unique and special. It gives us the immortality that Becker describes in a way that we decide is important to us. A robust spiritual dimension can help us live life intentionally, mindfully and effectively.
Bibliography
Wilson, T., Clarke, A., Lorber HT Digital, Alive Mind Media, & National Film Board of Canada (2009). Griefwalker. United States: Alive Mind.
Becker, E. (1973). The denial of death. New York: Free Press.
Weil, A. (2005). Healthy aging: A lifelong guide to your physical and spiritual well-being. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
🌗Jungian Shadow Work Meditation for Integration
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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One of the available resources on the website is a meditation designed to help you connect with the shadow part of yourself, which may have been repressed due to trauma or negative experiences. This meditation aims to bring awareness to the aspects of yourself that you may avoid.
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Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
Tuesday Jun 21, 2022
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Leon Krier is uncompromising in his philosophy of design and philosophy of architecture. His vision of the past and future make him a controversial figure. He is one of the key figures in the founding of the new urbanism movement. Krier's architectural theory is fixated on designing permanent construction that will endure both physically and stylistically. His theoretical orientation is highly informed by the peak oil movement of the 1970's, but the implications are important for an urban and architectural future that is sustainable.
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Taproot Therapy is a collective of therapists who share resources to create a more efficient way to offer services for self discovery, growth and healing in Birmingham. We offer the most cutting edge neuroscientifically backed treatment for PTSD, trauma and anxiety. Brainspotting, EMDR, somatic therapies for trauma and IFS, Jungian therapy, meditation and mindfulness are just a few of our clinicians modalities. We believe that therapy is about more than reducing symptoms. Taproot Therapy Collective does not use “one size fits all” therapy models. Instead we try to personally understand each patient and help reconnect them with the journey that their life calls them toward. We make no presumptions about who you are or where you are going. The clinicians at Taproot Therapy Collective only want to help you find yourself and to find the way to where your journey calls you.
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