Every day I slip a “vest” harness on my little dog, Sawyer. He looks forward to it because it means he’s going for his walk – and like most dogs, he loves his walks! But early on, as an abused rescue who was kept in a cage, Sawyer didn’t have the slightest idea of what I was doing.
Elaine needed to talk to her partner about a touchy issue that kept coming up in their relationship. She was scared to have the conversation. In the past, she’d just shut-up and suck it up – or be very wishy-washy in how she conveyed the information.
Anthropologist Jeremy Narby lived with indigenous Indians of the Amazonian rainforest and studied the ways of ayahuasca shamans and their relationship with the ayahuasca “plant teacher.”
I was in a committed relationship a number of years back where my then-partner and I decided to get some couples counseling. My partner was in business and scared to death that somebody would find out that we were seeing a therapist.
How do you present yourself to the outside world? Personally, I used to hide my emotional pain and look normal enough. Professional, successful, measured. But behind that facade lived my wounded self.
All of us have experienced stuff in our lives that have limited us in some way or another. When it limits our ability to be our authentic self, we call it trauma.
As it’s said, two is better than one. And when it comes to recovering from difficult emotions, the powerhouse of active meditation and the powerhouse of thoughtful cannabis creates an energetic healing matrix pare excellence.
If you love and or value cannabis, it’s probably because of how it makes you feel. And there’s a wide scope of what that can be… it may heighten your creativity, enhance your focus, take your physical pain away, and, for my emotions work, help release emotional pain.
Can displacing alcohol with cannabis be an avenue for helping alcoholics wean off their substance abuse?
In this short interview, Dr. David Bearman – who’s been investigating cannabis for more than 50-years – talks about its potential but only when doctors can begin getting “their heads around cannabis”.
Recently an acquaintance mentioned that she and her partner started working out in the afternoons because around 3 o’clock they found themselves thinking about cocktails… on a daily basis.