Sublime

If you fear giving a presentation, for example, you might try to use willpower to override the fear or correct it with rational thoughts. If the fear persists, you might escalate your attempts to control by criticizing yourself for being a coward, numbing yourself into oblivion, or meditating to climb above it. And when none of those approaches wor

As my story illustrates, early interruptions to the mother-child bond can originate long before we’re ever conceived. The effects can remain in our unconscious and live in our body as somatic memories that can be triggered by events reminiscent of rejection or abandonment. When this happens, we can feel entirely out of sync with ourselves. Our thou

The therapist’s active listening is not meandering: what underpins it is an attempt to understand – for our sake – how the subterranean operations of the past are affecting the present. We arrive in therapy with questions. We have a presenting problem which hints at, but does not fully capture, the origins of our suffering. Why, for instance, do we

Physical ailments are signals of energy imbalances, which can be healed with bodywork, emotional processing, mental reorientation, and spiritual contact.

Highly sensitive children are particularly affected by their parents’ pain-bodies.