Shallow Holes Dug in the Earth
How do you know what’s real? What’s true? When you live with anxiety, you’re hoodwinked […]
The Lies We Tell ourselves
There’s a line from Bessel Van Der Kolk’s excellent tome on trauma, The Body Keeps […]
The Body Keeps the Score (1/3)
I did my first yoga class with a bunch of friends at Nanterre University on […]
My Experience on a Vipassanā Meditation Retreat (3/4)
Day 7 Goenka’s Vipassana method is delivered identically throughout the world. Whether you do a […]
My Experience on a Vipassanā Meditation Retreat (2/4)
In his article, Mindfulness Meditation and Trauma: Proceed with Caution , psychotherapist, Manual Manotas describes […]
My Experience on a Vipassana Meditation Retreat (1/4)
It was all going swimmingly until Day 7. When I say swimmingly, it was hardly […]
The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.
Generational trauma is the idea that the significant pains suffered by our ancestors (poverty, sexual […]
An Imperial Tonne of Grief
It is dusk. I enter his bedroom quietly. He is sitting up in the little […]
8 things to avoid…
…to avoid re-triggering childhood trauma. In order of experiencing them: A Levels LSD and mushrooms […]