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…
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…
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…
Since February I’m living in my new house with a lot of pleasure and gratitude. A lovely place to ground and rest. And an ideal place to retreat…
Last three days I spent in silence withdrawn inside to meet myself with everything that would came. As a part of these days I decided to undergo an…
Today, I’ve followed the first day of the post-HBO ECT at CELEVT. ECT stands for Early Childhood Chronic Traumatization (chronic traumas contracted before the sixth year of life).…
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.…
I’ve found out that when trauma has occurred in early childhood (0-7yrs), the dissociative symptoms can be elusive and can challenge me as a psychotrauma therapist, and as…
As a psychotrauma therapist specialized in working with the consequences of narcissistic abuse, on a regular basis I’m meeting people who have been given the role of scapegoat…