Healing

Trauma has your face in it. I mean, whatever trauma you’ve been through, the way you, your body, your mind, your spirit reacted, it’s your trauma responses and it has your face in it. …

In these recent times, writing for me has become a form of accountability. It is what I most identify with as a creative, so I think it is only natural that it is the object and channel of my drive. Writing these days ensures that I show up daily, and…

Hope and other says — There were walls Around my heart Way higher than castle walls Erected for a purpose That kept my heart in store A normal prince would scale these walls But he was unlike any normal prince I’d ever known I heard the siren sounds Just before he felled my defences But caution chose…

After his first encounter with Ayahuasca, 39-year-old Richard Doyle felt a slight but noticeable lifting of the severe asthma he had suffered from childhood. He could still hear the haunting icaros or medicinal songs that Norma, the Shipibo shaman, had sung while he lay dissected under the gaze of Mother…

Discussing trauma can be a very difficult subject for some, so if you think this subject may trigger you, please skip this story. “The Body Keeps The Score” is an exploration of trauma and healing. Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. explains that trauma is unbearable and intolerable and affects those…