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1 week ago

Using Synchronicity for Emotional Growth

Synchronicities can be dismissed as quirky experiences, an anecdote to trot out at a dinner party, but they can also be profoundly transformative and healing. It's for this reason that synchronicity-informed psychotherapy informs my clinical practice. As a refresher, synchronicities are events in the external world that coincide in a meaningful way with the internal world of thoughts, feelings, images, sensations, memories, and dreams, but not due to causal reasons.
Mental health
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Healing Beyond Diagnoses and Drugs

Psychosis can contain symbolic, spiritual signals that, when listened to with care and supported by community, may lead to understanding and healing beyond medication.
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2 weeks ago

Letting Go of Suffering Is Good for Your Health

Indeed, getting to forgiveness is perhaps the most difficult and challenging thing that we can do to go beyond ourselves when we are so fixated on our problems, our needs, our expectations, and our demands. Let's face it: When things are spinning out of control-and especially out of our control-it is at least comforting and cathartic, even if it doesn't really resolve anything, to be able to point the blame on others for the situation at hand.
Mental health
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Camus and the Psychology of Meaning

Happiness must be actively constructed through attention, engagement, limits, compassion, and occasional silence to create meaning in an absurd world.
Philosophy
fromPsychology Today
1 month ago

The Key to Freedom From Life's Mental Prison Cells Is Within

Freedom to choose attitude in the space between stimulus and response enables growth, happiness, and meaning despite uncontrollable external conditions.
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1 month ago

Restoring Meaning and Relationship in Trauma Therapy

In our current clinical landscape, "trauma" has become a ubiquitous term-both in the scientific literature and in popular discourse. The word is invoked in diagnostic manuals, self-help books, and even casual conversation. The dominant narrative around trauma today often privileges a view of trauma as a "thing"-a technical problem with distinct behavioral, neurobiological, or cognitive symptoms that exists apart from the lived experience of the person.
Psychology
fromPsychology Today
3 months ago

Desire Discrepancy and the Meaning We Make of It

Meaning-making often leads individuals to negative interpretations of their experiences, especially in the context of sexual desire discrepancies, creating unnecessary suffering and confusion.
Relationships
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