Category: Psychology and Relationships
These are very personal questions: What is spiritual to you? When and where do you feel spiritual? How do these spiritual feelings get blocked or expanded?
We can carry these questions throughout our lives. Spiritual practice aims to refine and deepen our understanding of them.
I will focus on three specific spiritual practices: psychological relationships, meditation, and psychedelic plant medicines, including cannabis.
Spiritual practice is about psychological relationships because if our spiritual practice doesn’t improve our relationships with others, what’s the point?
The practice of psychological relationships with others and with one’s inner life is a personal experience with spiritual meaning. This involves experiences of vulnerability, hurt, and confusion that teach us the depth of human love and kindness.
Spiritual practice is not only personal but also universal and objective. We need to look at our minds as they are, our human instincts as they are, and our relationship with the natural world. We are born, go through all the developmental stages, and then die. Life is both precious and painful. We cannot change most of life, but we can learn to connect with it gracefully, little by little.
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Emotional Manipulation in a Relationship: How to Fix Those Broken Words
Many might have heard the term gaslighting come up in conversations or in social media posts you have recently read. This term is becoming more popularly used as a way to describe emotional manipulation in a relationship. This happens especially when it goes to the extent of one person leading the other to believe that they’re…
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How to Forgive Yourself: How Therapies Can Cure Guilt
Guilt is a feeling each one of us experiences at some point during our lives. In fact, estimates show that we spend about five hours per week experiencing guilty feelings! In those moments, many wish to have know a simple technique: how to forgive yourself. While guilt can be helpful in small and fair amounts…
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Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy: What Can It Change?
Various forms of couples therapy have been practiced over the decades, often focusing on specific relationship problems and trying to find the best resolutions for them. Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is a subform of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). EFCT allows couples to build more positive relationships through the development of the attachment bond. Actually,…
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How to Change the Way Your Life Looks With Color Therapy
Color therapy presents us with a holistic form of healing in which the visible light spectrum is used to influence frequencies and energies within our bodies. Our brains and eyes are always hard at work. Light receptors in the human eyes send messages to the brain that result in the perception of different colors. We…
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Therapy Dogs: The Impact of Cuteness on Depression
Most of us do not adopt our pets as a means to combat depression. However, many find out after getting our precious critters that they have the ability to make us feel good about life and about ourselves. They make us smile and laugh when they (usually unintentionally) do silly things. They are also there…
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Speech Therapy: What Can Words Really Heal?
Children learn early on the importance of listening and speaking. This all starts with learning to use phonemes, which are the smallest units of speech to construct different words. Many children are able to hear and speak in the age’s normal ways at normative ways. However, some children struggle with hearing and speech. They are…
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How Can a Grief Counselor Take You to Peace of Mind?
Throughout our lives, we all experience grief. Grief varies from person to person and situation to situation. However, it can cause a lot of emotional, mental, and physical duress. This is why many turn to a grief counselor for help. You might feel sad, lost, confused, angry, or any other range of emotions that take…
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Binge Eating Disorder: How to Cure What’s Fishy With Food
You might have seen a commercial or two on television over the past couple years advertising medications to help people who are dealing with Binge Eating Disorder (BED). What those commercials fail to explain, however, is that BED is a serious and life-threatening disorder that effects both men and women and is three times more common…
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Conduct Disorder: What May Take Your Child Out of Society?
Although you might not have heard it referred to by its proper name, Conduct Disorder is something you have likely seen examples of in popular culture and, perhaps, even among your child’s group of friends. Perhaps your own child or teenager shows signs of Conduct Disorder. In order to help you gain a clearer perspective…
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Postpartum Depression: Healing What Can Happen to Anyone
The birth of a child is assumed to be a happy occasion for the child’s parents. There certainly can be a sense of happiness or even euphoria. But some parents face with a profound sense of helplessness, guilt, a lack of a bond with the child, or even an emptiness and wanting to run away.…
