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“About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives. This can be defined as the general neurosis of our times.”
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Salvaged Faith
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Wellness: Our Best Defense
Those who know me have heard me use an expression when I'm saying good-bye, for a time, to those I love and care about: "Be Well." The use of these words started long ago as an affirmation of what I'd dreamed I might one day achieve. These days, although I continue to wish for wellness in my personal and family life, I use these words as a blessing for others too. When I say to anyone, "Be Well": This is a sincere short-prayer that I share for you and I both,as well as for our families. |
As I shared on the home-page: I promote treatment frameworks, modalities, and trauma recovery processes that use Bio-Psycho-Social concepts. What this more clearly means is, I've learned that I need to tackle myself in this still after-math of trauma and resulting challenges in ways that addresses the whole-person that is me. This is what the most current treatment providers suggest we must do to have our best-shot at achieving wellness once we're wounded as deeply as many of us are.
I've learned through my own recovery that we are triune-beings made of Mind, Body, and Human Spirit. In order to recover from any ailments as best we possibly can, for both physical and psychological ills, I've had to learn the hard way that to do that, I must continue to learn to appreciate and care-for those parts of myself that are all three.
We may need to tackle these parts of ourselves one-at-a-time. Those treating us are highly skilled in helping us sort out our own best path. Those trained as specialists in treating trauma, teach us the skills we need to work our recovery safely, engaging those processes they've studied that support us at all three levels of the self.
That's the core of bio-psycho-social treatment as a model of care.
Pursuing wellness remains a quest for me. Having spent the past five years or so getting my mind and spirit repaired to a place where I'm now comfortable that these two parts of myself are receiving right attention: My body right now is telling me it needs some attention finally too.
As trauma-treatment pioneers like Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, David Berceli and others share with us, a huge part of being well following trauma is to learn, or relearn, how to stay in touch with our innate felt sense in the body as we work to learn our way back to self-regulating our damaged emotions. We need lessons from those who treat trauma to help learn how to do that.
I've come to understand through these treatment pioneers how necessary it is through recovery for us to maintain a very open mind. As I touched on in the section of the site that talks about treatment models: We are each unique; what helps one of us recover may not necessarily help another; recovery too is non-linear-meaning there is no predetermined path for us that anyone can lay down that hopes to guide us from any point A's towards what seems like the often out-of-reach point Z's.
The best therapists I've worked with are gifted in knowing how best to coax us towards what we need to do to release the energy of trauma that is locked in the mind, body, and spirit, when PTSD and other conditions are holding us back.
I personally commit to continuing in my recovery to work with my mind and spirit. I commit as well to learn what's missing to help me start working more closely again with my body. As it is for other pages on this site, my intent in sharing this is to encourage others to commit to doing the same.
As for my own body right now, I'm not all that proud of myself, sitting here on the sofa still as I write. I've gained too much weight. My blood-pressure is too high. I'm often negligent in dealing with my own daily self-care. I've fallen-down where nutrition is concerned and I've become such an arm-chair, couch-spud, my body is telling me it's time again to get some proper exercise.
I'm planning a shift beginning as soon as I'm done writing and updating this web-site. For now, I'll simply leave it to confess that I've been remiss now over many years in regards to my own physical self-care. There's so much to learn, as I agree to continue moving forwards as best I can. I'm excited to be in a place right now that I'm thinking of my body again at all.
From here, I'll introduce some things that I've picked up along the way that I trust will speak to my understanding of wellness clearly enough for visitors to the site. As I hope to share the importance of wellness goals as part of recovering the whole-people that we are, the focus of my sharing about wellness will be put-upon what I believe our society on the whole isn't understanding all that well:
The focus of the discussion I wish to share about wellness will be structured around those concepts that define for us what's referred to as: The Social Determinants of Health.
To understand what it takes to be well, I had to agree with myself that my education needed to go deep. Others may not wish to go that far. I'll only say the more we know about ourselves. The more brilliantly self-aware we are willing to allow ourselves to become. The better will be the outcomes for us when we choose, wisely, that we wish to recover from all we've been through.
Check Out The Video Below: I Hope You Dance Again (Maybe Even In The Rain). Recovery Is About Dancing In The Rain As If Not A Single Soul Is Watching
I've split this piece on wellness into bite-sized chunks.
For More On Wellness: Follow This Link
I've learned through my own recovery that we are triune-beings made of Mind, Body, and Human Spirit. In order to recover from any ailments as best we possibly can, for both physical and psychological ills, I've had to learn the hard way that to do that, I must continue to learn to appreciate and care-for those parts of myself that are all three.
We may need to tackle these parts of ourselves one-at-a-time. Those treating us are highly skilled in helping us sort out our own best path. Those trained as specialists in treating trauma, teach us the skills we need to work our recovery safely, engaging those processes they've studied that support us at all three levels of the self.
That's the core of bio-psycho-social treatment as a model of care.
Pursuing wellness remains a quest for me. Having spent the past five years or so getting my mind and spirit repaired to a place where I'm now comfortable that these two parts of myself are receiving right attention: My body right now is telling me it needs some attention finally too.
As trauma-treatment pioneers like Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, David Berceli and others share with us, a huge part of being well following trauma is to learn, or relearn, how to stay in touch with our innate felt sense in the body as we work to learn our way back to self-regulating our damaged emotions. We need lessons from those who treat trauma to help learn how to do that.
I've come to understand through these treatment pioneers how necessary it is through recovery for us to maintain a very open mind. As I touched on in the section of the site that talks about treatment models: We are each unique; what helps one of us recover may not necessarily help another; recovery too is non-linear-meaning there is no predetermined path for us that anyone can lay down that hopes to guide us from any point A's towards what seems like the often out-of-reach point Z's.
The best therapists I've worked with are gifted in knowing how best to coax us towards what we need to do to release the energy of trauma that is locked in the mind, body, and spirit, when PTSD and other conditions are holding us back.
I personally commit to continuing in my recovery to work with my mind and spirit. I commit as well to learn what's missing to help me start working more closely again with my body. As it is for other pages on this site, my intent in sharing this is to encourage others to commit to doing the same.
As for my own body right now, I'm not all that proud of myself, sitting here on the sofa still as I write. I've gained too much weight. My blood-pressure is too high. I'm often negligent in dealing with my own daily self-care. I've fallen-down where nutrition is concerned and I've become such an arm-chair, couch-spud, my body is telling me it's time again to get some proper exercise.
I'm planning a shift beginning as soon as I'm done writing and updating this web-site. For now, I'll simply leave it to confess that I've been remiss now over many years in regards to my own physical self-care. There's so much to learn, as I agree to continue moving forwards as best I can. I'm excited to be in a place right now that I'm thinking of my body again at all.
From here, I'll introduce some things that I've picked up along the way that I trust will speak to my understanding of wellness clearly enough for visitors to the site. As I hope to share the importance of wellness goals as part of recovering the whole-people that we are, the focus of my sharing about wellness will be put-upon what I believe our society on the whole isn't understanding all that well:
The focus of the discussion I wish to share about wellness will be structured around those concepts that define for us what's referred to as: The Social Determinants of Health.
To understand what it takes to be well, I had to agree with myself that my education needed to go deep. Others may not wish to go that far. I'll only say the more we know about ourselves. The more brilliantly self-aware we are willing to allow ourselves to become. The better will be the outcomes for us when we choose, wisely, that we wish to recover from all we've been through.
Check Out The Video Below: I Hope You Dance Again (Maybe Even In The Rain). Recovery Is About Dancing In The Rain As If Not A Single Soul Is Watching
I've split this piece on wellness into bite-sized chunks.
For More On Wellness: Follow This Link
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