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Daily Alchemy: a question to think on together
22h ago“When does real healing happen: in the room with a professional, or in the quiet moments when you put it into practice alone?”
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On the plethora of Therapeutic modalities
There's a genre of book that's the therapy modality book. They're all the same. They go I was a therapist and what I was doing wasn't working, and then I discovered <specific technique the book is advocating> and then it cured me and all my clients and now things are great and... I like everything everybody is saying but haven't seen, The modalities are exercising different muscles and when one gets popular it's because it's touching a muscle group that is underdeveloped culturally.... - annabeth...
I also want to mention that in Kegan’s data, something like 66% of people are "3rd order"… (the equivalent of amber), so this makes a lot of sense! Traditional integral definitions of amber focus too much on surface features rather than the deep meaning making.... - renee...
Hey Nat! Well the issue that originally triggered me, that led me to seek therapy, is no longer a trigger. I have so much more space around it. She deconstructed the fck out of my limiting beliefs. I didn't even know therapists do that.... - nat...
Yes, love all of this In physical medicine this is obvious, because the different parts of the body are widely recognized. I think this is huge. Not just wrt to development, but I think because it's invisible, we have a dramatically impoverished map of psychic anatomy, illness,... - Satinleader...
Where is this headed?
My husband and I have been in our relationship for nearly 21 years now, only 3 of which have been as an actual married couple and that mostly because I have pushed for it from the start I believe.... - Daniel1948...
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Hey you are a human. Your feelings are what anyone paying attention is feeling. You’re important. Depression is not the same as sadness and will impact your sleep your appetite and physical well being.... - kmitcham...
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What comes to mind for me is autism, and the lengths parents and caregivers go to get a result, and one method after another fails, and then one day, one works.... Hah! I hadn't read this before our conversation on Wednesday and this feels weirdly related to a lot of what we talked about. 1. Therapy's effect is mostly based the therapist's passion and belief that they're helping 2. The effect of specific techniques is mostly placebo.... - onPain and suffering- the difference looks massive to me lately. Someone was rude to me earlier today. The in-the-moment impact of his words was discomfort (pain), but the suffering happens in the rumination. by
Marsha Linehan, creator of DBT (dialectical behavior therapy) and seemingly an amazing woman, is credited with this formula:
Pain + nonacceptance = suffering /Pain without acceptance = suffering
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