Psychiatric patients want more room for spirituality in their treatment. This article appeared in the newspaper Trouw on July 16. Sometimes I work with people in my practice…
Adverse childhood experiences lead to trauma and toxic stress. Toxic stress prevents optimal brain development and adversely affects the endocrine and immune systems, leading to a greater likelihood…
The times I’ve joined a 60-day retreat in Myanmar have been insightful, healing and enlightening. It has brought me a lot of benefits that I still reap on…
Today I finally joined another day of training by CELEVT where I following the course in treatment of early childhood trauma. This time the subject completely dedicated to…
Intimate relationships where cPTSD is involved aren’t that easy to built. To find the balance between autonomy and deep connection is a quest. Before you know there’s an…
During the last years I have started to work more as a therapist with people who suffer from the effects of structural dissociation. Structural dissociation develops because a…
This morning in the session with my therapist I came into contact with a very young part of me. I want to share this experience with you again,…
Together with two colleague trauma therapists we had decided to do ‘research’ into the effects of psilocybin, the active ingredient in the so-called magic mushrooms.Various scientific studies are…
Okay, I admit… Things aren’t going as well as I pretended. Last Saturday night in my last post I wrote about how well I’m doing. Much of that…
I’ve always been fascinated by this piece of moorland. Five kilometers from my new house and 10 kilometers from my old house. Until now I was always ‘passing…