Sublime

The training of competent trauma therapists involves learning about the impact of trauma, abuse, and neglect and mastering a variety of techniques that can help to (1) stabilize and calm patients down, (2) help to lay traumatic memories and reenactments to rest, and (3) reconnect patients with their fellow men and women.

Writing is not therapy, though it may have a therapeutic effect.

Conventional therapy, he said, which had been useful in the past, is now no longer relevant. His wish is to talk about spiritual things-areas in which therapists do not tread.

The best therapists do not merely heal damage; they help people identify and build their strengths and their virtues.

“Insight is the booby prize of therapy” is my favorite maxim of the trade, meaning that you can have all the insight in the world, but if you don’t change when you’re out in the world, the insight—and the therapy—is worthless. Insight allows you to ask yourself, Is this something that’s being done to me or am I doing it to myself? The answer gives

enables us to accomplish that which is impossible through conventional physical and verbal therapeutic procedures.

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

Therapy attempts to break down obstruction and assist through a cathartic release. I’m more interested in teaching ways to set free a creative energy that will flow onto the paper without judgment and analytical observation of its origin. Each of us has within us a mother lode of creative fuel that, when accessed, can ignite our artistic process in