The Growth Approach

Not me 3 years ago thinking my almost perfect ACEs score didn't mean I would have chronic dysregulation 🙃

Trauma and the Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective This video was developed to give a basic introduction and overview of how trauma and chronic stress affects our nervous system and how those effects impact o...

Irreducible Rascality: the potential wrench in every plan, problem in every solution, or possibility that can disrupt any 'perfect' situation. The constant possibility of s**t getting fu**ed.

When Alan Watts wrote about Carl Jung, he described perfectly what an integrated Shadow Self looks like:

“There is a nice German word, hintergedanken, which means a thought in the very far back of your mind,” says Watts. “Jung had a hintergedanken in the back of his mind that showed in the twinkle in his eye. It showed that he knew and recognized what I sometimes call the element of irreducible rascality in himself. And he knew it so strongly and so clearly, and in a way so lovingly, that he would not condemn the same thing in others, and would therefore not be led into those thoughts, feelings, and acts of violence towards others which are always characteristic of the people who project the devil in themselves upon the outside, upon somebody else, upon the scapegoat.”
~Alan Watts discussing Carl Jung

Mindfully outraged: Mindfulness increases deontic retribution for third-party injustice Mindfulness is known to temper negative reactions by both victims and perpetrators of injustice. Accordingly, critics claim that mindfulness numbs peo…