Insecure attachment can greatly complicate our relationships, friendships and parenting, even all areas of our lives. …

Meditation is often considered calming, relaxing and helpful for stress. As a result, it is now widely recommended by therapists and doctors for various purposes. …

Numerous spiritual gurus and teachers have been guilty of abusing their students, but damaging behavior also takes place in peer-led spiritual communities. Behind it is almost always trauma, yet some circles’ obsession with trauma healing can also go awry. Communities with a spiritual or self-improvement bent are teeming with scarred…

Life with chronic illness can be very difficult and complex and others’ support is crucial, though sadly not always forthcoming. People are very complex. but we tend to neglect the complexity to lump others into categories like “he doesn’t care”. This article focuses on why healthy or mostly healthy people…

Internal Family Systems (IFS), developed by Richard Schwartz in the 1980s, is a form of psychotherapy that recently has been rapidly gaining popularity for several different reasons. It can be used to treat simple and complex trauma, addictions, many types of mental health conditions as well as everyday issues like…

Trauma is much more than just emotional pain, it’s also a developmental and interpersonal issue. Dissociation and insecure attachment stemming from childhood trauma are ubiquitous and can lead to major difficulties in friendships and relationships, sometimes even abuse. I’ve always felt a connection to underdogs and weirdos, and since I…

Jhānas are meditative states commonly viewed as concentration practice that may be used to facilitate insight meditation, but I and many teachers and scholars see them as important insight practice in themselves. …

Many people have asked me to write about my intriguing, and at times lightning-fast, trauma healing journey practicing loving-kindness meditation (metta), Internal Family Systems (IFS) and somatic experiencing (SE). Like many real-life stories, it’s a bit complicated — I have to introduce many concepts, provide background and ”claim attainments” in…

Myofascial trigger points are a ubiquitous problem that can lead to severe pain and sometimes puzzling symptoms, which often end up misdiagnosed. Myofascial trigger points are painful, hyperirritable areas in muscles that can cause pain, stiffness, limited range of motion and sometimes other symptoms. …