By: Astar Shamir

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What is The Voice of Light Treatment?
The treatment is based on the utilization of the therapist and the patient’s vocal energies in order to disperse energy blockages, release painful and aching body parts and fill them with energy.
The therapist uses the different frequencies of his voice in order to create energetic fluctuation inside the body so that the body can take care of itself. (more…)

By: Jennifer B. Baxt, LMHC, LMFT

Many people don’t like the idea of group therapy, feeling like it some how invades their privacy. However, group therapy can be extremely beneficial, for a variety of reasons, and you can even take part in group therapy through online therapy. In fact, online therapy takes a great deal of the apprehensiveness of group therapy completely out of the picture. (more…)

By: Jennifer B Baxt, LMFT, LMHC

When you think about therapy, especially when it pertains to your marriage, online marriage therapy may not be something that comes to mind. However, in today’s world of ever advancing technology and where many things are based on the web, is it not only logical that online marriage therapy be an option. If you are a bit of a traditionalist, you may think that online marriage therapy will not be helpful or something that should be considered. However, there are many advantages that online marriage therapy can offer, that traditional marriage therapy, which refers going to physically visit a marriage therapist, cannot. If you, your spouse, and your marriage are having issues of any type, it is only wise to consider online marriage therapy and what it has to offer. Only then can you truly accept the help online marriage therapy can offer. (more…)

By: Mary Ellen Barnes, Ph.D. & Edward W. Wilson, Ph.D

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There are many types of alcohol consumption ranging from the healthy to the deadly. Some people of the prohibitionist persuasion will ague that any use is destructive, but neither medical research nor personal experience supports that conclusion. Unhappily, most “screening” protocols are heavily weighted towards a diagnosis of addiction justifying punitive treatment approaches and “abstinence only” outcomes. In reality, many different degrees of alcohol use exist, and the following thumbnail guide can be helpful in deciding what category is appropriate, and in predicating various – as well as usual - outcomes. (more…)

By: Edward W. Wilson, Ph.D., MAC

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Outside of the U.S. the concept of “Harm Reduction” is frequently the first step in addressing problems related to alcohol abuse, dependence or addiction. The concept is easy to understand: any reduction in a problem behavior is progress. Put together enough reductions and the problem will be eliminated or at least moderated. (more…)

By Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.

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Recently, a friend jokingly said to me “I’d be such a great mother if I didn’t have kids!” The picture of being a great mother wasn’t one she was relating to at the moment, she felt derailed by her children.

If we never went off the track we felt we should always be coasting gleefully on, we might not be available to the gifts that we learn when we careen off the road. I once heard Marianne Williamson say that our greatest spiritual learning don’t happen on the days where we cruise through life. Certainly, I would always (consciously at least) prefer to learn through joy rather than suffering, most of us (myself included) probably still learn the most through challenge. (more…)

By: Jeanine Austin, Ph.D.

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We either know a drama queen, we are a drama queen, or goodness forbid, perhaps both! Some people run from high drama to high drama. They never really live the real drama of life: deep love, true passion and deep peace. They seem to get high from the intensity and frantic nature of “cheap drama”. Why do we/they do it? (more…)

By Debra L. Kaplan, MA, LAC, LISAC

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Not too long ago, a client who I was treating for prescription drug abuse, looked at me and said, “It’s my desperate need to silence my feelings that drives me to want to use.”  She went on to describe what it felt like to live in her skin.  “It’s as if the people in my life are at the controls of this rollercoaster called my life and I’m trapped and I can’t get off.  I like or hate the ride based on how I feel about them at that moment; in my mind you’re either with me or against me. But I can’t fire them from the controls!” (more…)

By Jennifer B Baxt

What is ablutophobia? With so many different phobias out there, it will come as little surprise that there is a phobia that refers to people who are afraid to bathe, or wash. It might seem strange, but ablutophobia is a real phobia that people do suffer from. Symptoms that can occur in people suffering this type of phobia are not too unlike those suffered from individuals who suffer from other types of phobias. Common symptoms include breathlessness, anxiety, nervousness, and dizziness. There are others that people can exhibit, but these ones are the more probable ones for this phobia. (more…)

By Eduardo Sierra

When I first met Matthew, I immediately liked his presence as an elder and so I wanted to interview him. We met at Waking Down in Mutuality retreats. What began to flower was a friendship of the highest order, “spiritual brothers.” Our conversations were deep, stimulating and enriching for both of us, shared insights and observations flowed. Reminds me of: (more…)