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The sauna and cold plunge can be more than just a physical wellness practice. Explore the interesting psychological practices you can use in sauna and cold plunge to increase clarity, mindfulness, and resilience.
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) can provide couples an ability to enhance communication, deepen connection, and heal relational traumas.
What does our therapist or mental health provider wish we were doing outside of the therapy office? Are there certain practices or suggestions most therapists would agree support the therapeutic process? I discussed this question with Christina Swift and Aaron Galloway, two Boulder-based therapists specializing in the treatment of anxiety, depression, addiction, and trauma. Together, we came up with the following list- 5 things your therapist wishes you’d do outside of session!
Psychotherapy differs from coaching in that we do not simply focus on re-framing and finding strategic ways to perform. Rather, we focus on coming into an open and honest relationship with the truth of your experience, no matter what that is. While a coach might help you override your fear, a psychotherapist will bring you in direct relationship to your fear. Where a coach might teach you techniques to push away negative thoughts, a psychotherapist might encourage you to move closer to them, study them, and explore the base root of these thoughts.
The idea in psychotherapy is that the closer we move to that which scares us, the more we liberate from fear. Not from the perspective of moving past it, but instead from developing a working relationship to it.
Both psychedelics and martial arts are having their day. As each practice grows and expands, it is curious to see the similarities and interesting ways these disciplines support one another. What is the future for psychedelics and their role in martial arts training, development, and healing?
This is an interview with Julian Royce MA, LPCC. Julian discusses his personal journey into becoming a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and podcast host, and explains the in’s and out’s of EMDR therapy. EMDR is a therapeutic modality used specifically to address trauma, and Julian provides this treatment in his private practice in Boulder, CO.
In the healing space we all become our own healers and access our own inward healing intelligence. We can go even deeper by splitting inward intelligence into feminine and masculine energies. When either energy is over or under-developed, we can feel off balance. Divine feminine intelligence is aligning with inward feminine energy in its purest form, and connecting to its source within each one of us.
When viewed through the lens of martial arts training, healing can be understood as a ongoing practice that requires commitment, dedication, and perseverance; the result of which cultivates the mind-state of an artist. An artist is always in learning, practicing, and progressing towards a never-ending horizon. It is a lifestyle more than a destination.
In discussing psychedelic medicine work during the time of quarantine, a lot of questions have arisen around whether or not this is a good time to journey. While this is an important question, it is first important to note that we are already in an altered state.
“Life will be different after this. There is no way we will return to the way it was.” I have seen this sentiment shared endlessly on social media. While I hope it to be true, addiction professionals hear this statement daily and watch it get unproven time and time again. Rock bottoms do not guarantee change. Perhaps addiction recovery has a lot to teach us about change.
In regards to mental health, rites of passage are often overlooked. What is available when we’d like to transition from one mental state to another? Psychedelic therapy should be respected as one such option for a rite of passage through mental states.
Perhaps one of the most frustrating moments of the psychotherapeutic journey is coming to the realization that awareness, despite all it’s toted glory, shall not set you free.
The integration experience is a healing partnership between the explorer, the integration supporter(s), and the wisdom and intelligence of the psychedelic medicine. Collectively, the goal is provide a meaningful and transformational process that extends far beyond the psychedelic experience.
There is perhaps no topic more sensitive in the psychedelic medicine community than the question of what medicine work means for people who identify as addicts or individuals in recovery from substance abuse.
