Reading Time: 2 minutes Emotions play a huge part in our wellness. As humans we have a huge spectrum of emotions. When we store them deep in the body, repressing them, it causes our bodies to become out of alignment. Through my own experience and in my work as a holistic therapist, if there is no physical explanation, the […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes This edition of Healers Magazine, Health vs. Healing: From Prevention to Intervention, was supposed to be released exactly one year ago—let’s start there. Those of you have been with us for some time already know that 2019 brought us technical challenges of epic proportions. We cleared each hurdle, thanks largely to one of our first […]
Tags:- Aging Anxiety Bipolar Disorder Blame Death Forgiveness Growth Health Intervention Manic Episode Obsession Pain Panic Panic Attacks Prevention Regret Regrets Repression Self-Recrimination Stress Superego Wellness
Reading Time: 19 minutes How many times have you contemplated heading to the nearest airport and booking a one-way ticket to elsewhere? How many times have you actually gone through with it? If you haven’t, not even once, that’s probably because you don’t take the option seriously, pathologizing it as an escapist delusion. It isn’t. You may object, arguing […]
Tags:- Abuse Agoraphobia Ambivalence Anxiety Buyer’s Remorse Confidence Dating Depression Domestic Violence Gaze of the Other Insecurity Looks Regrets Relationships Relocation Repression Sadness Self-Loathing Self-Medication Self-Recrimination Self-Reproaching Socializing Soursop Stress Travel
Reading Time: 5 minutes I visited Budapest while studying abroad in Vienna and it brought home some ancestral recollections in my 5/8 Slavically Jewish memory. I came across a stylish neo-Renaissance house that was built on Andrassy Street, a picturesque boulevard not far from the Danube, in 1880. For decades the building served as a venue for pleasant social […]
Tags:- Anxiety Confabulation Ego Ego Defenses Erik Erickson Humiliation Identification Identity Memories Mourning Perception PTSD Repression Resistance Subjectivity Trauma Vamik Volkan Violence
Reading Time: 5 minutes You aren’t going to want to hear this. You’re headstrong, stubborn, independent and determined. These are all qualities which will be useful later in life, but—you should hear me out. I write this because I know what happens next. I know what you were forced to do, how you suffered then and for so many […]
Tags:- Abuse Anger Bad Habits Fear Forgiveness Guilt Insecurity Parents Repression Ruminating Self-care Self-Esteem Self-Love Sexual Abuse Shame Suppression Threats Violence
Reading Time: 2 minutes “To confront a person with his shadow is to show him his own light.” (Carl Jung) Whatever parts of a person are relegated to the shadows of his or her psyche become forces of unconscious behavior. In these orphaned impulses and emotions lies a potency that few dare tap into. In these disowned dreams and […]
