Month: January 2022

Traumatic experiences (where our nervous system’s ability to regulate itself gets overwhelmed) can effect us in many ways. Emotionally our ability to move in/out of feelings can be impacted, inter-personally our capacity to trust others and say “no” in boundary-situations can be undermined. Trauma can be low-level and long-lasting (such as certain forms of sustained […]

I sense that in our culture the word depression has lost its true significance in that we use it for everything from mild sadness/disappointment to severe grief. Over the course of my psychotherapy and meditative I have come to formulate depression in different ways. I think that depression is a bodily signal of stuckness, stagnation, […]