psychospiritual
The Neurobiological Basis of Addiction
Addiction is among the most misunderstood conditions in modern medicine. For decades, it was framed as a moral failing or a simple lack of willpower.
End-of-Life Planning and Advance Directives
Death is the only certainty of human life, yet modern societies have become remarkably poor at preparing for it. The medicalization of dying — the transformation of death from a communal, spiritual, and familial event into a hospital-based medical procedure — has created a situation where the...
Case Study: The Woman Who Was "Fine" — Chronic Fatigue, Hashimoto's, and the Cost of People-Pleasing
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Case Study: The Awakening That Looked Like Madness — Kundalini Rising, Spiritual Emergency, and the Danger of Pathologizing the Sacred
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Case Study: The Warrior's Return — PTSD, Intergenerational Trauma, and the Four Directions of Healing
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Cancer: Supportive and Integrative Care
Cancer remains the second leading cause of death globally, responsible for approximately 10 million deaths annually. While conventional oncology — surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, immunotherapy, and targeted therapies — has achieved remarkable advances in certain cancer types, the overall war...
Restorative Justice Principles
Restorative justice represents a fundamental paradigm shift in how societies understand and respond to harm. Rather than asking "What law was broken?
Truth and Reconciliation Processes
When societies emerge from periods of mass violence, systematic oppression, or authoritarian rule, they face a fundamental question: How do we move forward when the past is saturated with suffering? The retributive answer — prosecute the perpetrators — often proves impractical (too many...
Yoga, Vedanta, and Neuroscience for Healing
Okay, let's get into it. The source material we have today is centered on this incredible learning module, Sivananda, integrating yoga, Vedanta, and neuroscience.
Community Arts and Social Healing
Community arts — creative practices that are rooted in, created by, and accountable to specific communities — occupy a unique space between professional art-making and therapeutic intervention. They are not therapy in the clinical sense, nor are they art in the gallery sense.
Narrative Therapy and Writing
Human beings are storytelling creatures. We organize our experience into narratives — stories with characters, settings, plots, conflicts, and resolutions — and these narratives shape our identity, our relationships, and our sense of what is possible.
Theater of the Oppressed
Augusto Boal (1931-2009), a Brazilian theater director and political activist, transformed theater from a spectacle performed by actors for a passive audience into a participatory practice that empowers ordinary people to rehearse solutions to their own oppression. His Theater of the Oppressed...