Transformational Alchemy for the Highly Sensitive Person
Jun 07Judgement keeps us small. The Superiority Complex exists in every industry, and every culture. For twenty years I worked in veterinary medicine. I was a registered veterinary technician, but spent the last ten years in management roles. Across the Keep Reading
May 22The (sometimes) Myth of Scientific Objectivity. What if all scientific objectivity was filtered through the Buddhist concept of Beginner's Mind? Beginner's Mind is about opening to all possibilities instead of attaching to deeply entrenched beliefs Keep Reading
May 17The field of Positive Psychology. I love the field of Positive Psychology because they're curious about questions like, “What’s more powerful, Hope or Gratitude?” I mean, just scanning the titles gives me a spark. I recently read an article on the Keep Reading
May 10I had a dream a few years ago. It went like this... In a woodland clearing was a temple, round, concrete, and sterile looking. Within the structure was an immense creature which looked like an alabaster curl bug with long tentacles and short Keep Reading
May 05I love Transpersonal Psychology, a field which captured my heart over a decade ago. Transpersonal psychology validated my existence at a time in my life when more rigid forms of Western psychology defined me as broken. The focus of my Master's Keep Reading
Apr 14A transformative dream... I once had a dream that changed my life. I never saw myself or my perceptions of the world the same, after it. It seemed to be a message from my own spirit; a lesson on the dishonesty and inaccuracies of fear. It started as Keep Reading
Apr 11In the science of human behavior, reward systems are often explored. There have been countless studies done on the effects of extrinsic (external) vs. intrinsic (internal) motivation. It's widely understood that intrinsic motivation, (doing something Keep Reading
Apr 08Seeing things differently. Positive Psychology sees things a little bit differently. Its foundation lies in the study of finding those aspects of self which, when fostered, lead to increased feelings of well being and inner peace. For example, Keep Reading
Apr 04I've always had a cherished relationship with my dreams. I've never passed dreams off as the meaningless result of something I ate before I went to bed, or some remnant of a movie watched recently. My dreams to me are pathways into my own soul. To Keep Reading
Mar 31Spider Medicine can be terrifying. When Aaron and I first moved to New Mexico from Minnesota, we pulled up to our new home having no idea what to expect. I had rented it months earlier from intuition alone, not able to see the inside due to massive Keep Reading