For our 10-day retreats there is a lot of interest from professionals working in the mental healthcare sector. We have seen psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists and many other mental…
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…
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…
A piece of personal experience to illustrate how childhood trauma can be caused by abuse, mistreatment or harassment. But also how it can heal in a therapeutic setting.…