Trauma Therapist & MD Psychotherapist. Founder of Caring for Self while Caring for Others series. Certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Previous EM MD
Joined October 2018
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Offering ongoing workshops on a wide range of topics dealing with preventing and healing from burnout; on connection and transformation. We have an informative Facebook page as well. #selfcareinhealthcare @OntariosDoctors @CMA_Docs @OMSAofficial facebook.com/WhileCaringForO…
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60 seconds can change your state.
Here's one way there, from @juleshorn01
Try it.
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Freeze and shutdown are survival responses. Unfortunately the brainstem driven response does not stop when threat passes.
This is at the heart of so many medical & mental health issues.
So this should be at the heart of medical and mental health curricula.
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In fact, it is rarely covered and even more rarely addressed.
People are left to suffer for years, decades ...
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“Can we know anything for certain? Yes and no. Yes in that the heart is moved and pours out in responding love and awe. What makes truth vivid is living it, serving the whole through it.”
~ Ann Bedford Ulanov
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"I found myself reflecting on how waterways shape not only landscapes but identities. Venice, Basel, the Rhine — each reminds us that the most meaningful forms of becoming rarely emerge through control, they emerge through participation.
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Perhaps wisdom is less about knowing where we are going and more about learning to listen for the currents already carrying us there."
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The pressure to force change in therapy, to provide solutions, to make the patient legible ... so many forms of therapy force raw elements of self deeper into oblivion, which both lends fragility to the therapeutic outcome and to new physical and emotional symptoms.
"Ultimately, I ask what kind of analytic presence can hold what has been repeatedly made to vanish. And whether, in certain moments, it is not working through but 𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 - an emergence of something beastly, erotic, incoherent and real - that reorganizes the field in ways
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"Ultimately, I ask what kind of analytic presence can hold what has been repeatedly made to vanish. And whether, in certain moments, it is not working through but 𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 - an emergence of something beastly, erotic, incoherent and real - that reorganizes the field in ways
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that no interpretation can."
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"He wanted love, yes, and he also believed he was giving love. He couldn't see himself clearly and, in the end, refused to do love's labor: the ongoing task of reconsidering our story anew. Without that work he could not see Sonal ... "
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"It is extremely hard for us modern people, especially in America where individual agency is glorified and canonized, to face the truth: fear and obedience are extremely powerful human
forces. Bravery is the exception, not the rule."
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"Every movement of ours is an announcement; each call you're empty enough to hear is an oracle."
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Trauma is not a moral failing. It’s not a thought problem. It isn’t something you can simply reason your way out of. And healing is possible, especially when we work with the whole person, body and brain together.
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"To look is not to reduce; it is to be with. To bear witness to what cannot be said, and to stay near it. To feel the rhythm of what Kristeva called abjection - those elements of self and experience that were expelled to preserve coherence - and to recognize them
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as 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔, not because they fit, but because they persist."
Todd Anderson. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝐵𝑎𝑏𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑛𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑆𝑒𝑙𝑓.
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"There is never a time in any treatment, body oriented or otherwise, when the intersubjective, relational/interpersonal presence of the therapist does not matter."
Quote in the thread of my virtual book group this week.
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"Ferenczi believed that the analyst must be emotionally affected by the patient's suffering - not as a loss of neutrality, but as an ethical stance rooted in mutual recognition and care."
~ Todd Anderson. The Dialectic of Coherence and Containment.
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"This is what I mean by the analyst's double position. we are real, but used. Present, but misrecognized. We are called to 𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 - to feel ourselves distorted and still remain.
This is not an interpretation. It is a kind of reverent
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waiting. A refusal to retaliate against miscasting. A willingness to remain human even when projected into positions that obscure us.
And we do so not because we are neutral - but because we are devoted to the possibility that something truer may one day enter the room."
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