The Wounded Healer is a central theme in our work and a phrase that I have noticed popping up more and more often in social media feeds. What is it all about? If you type the phrase ‘the wounded healer’ into Google search you will see that there are many different...

We have found that many of the clients we provide holistic services for are suffering from extreme trauma histories. Often these people have got to the end of the road of conventional psychiatric treatments, having seen numerous psychiatrists, therapists, etc. In some...

The current crisis (Covid-19) has a shadow side, which offers us the opportunity to grow. "Medicine women among the Pomo of California cannot practice until they are sufficiently mature; when they are immature, their power is diffuse and likely to interfere with their...

We all have a contra-sexual inner partner in our unconscious psyches. Carl Jung called this the animus in women and the anima in men. Jungian analyst Marion Woodman referred to them as inner masculine and inner feminine. “The Hindus say that without Shakti, the...

We can be addicted to a myriad of substances and activities. It is not really the substance or activity that is the problem, it is the way our behavior is affected. While it is generally considered negative, we want to reflect on the unseen, shadow aspects of...

What a time of change we are experiencing. There is so much happening, impacting us on so many levels. The news is full of death tolls from and guidelines and laws for decreasing the risk of contamination by the Covid-19 virus. Financial worries are rife as people all...

by Florian Birkmayer, MD I recently received this message online: "Hi Florian I read your interview in Psychology today. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-tapas And your article “The Molecules of Connectedness” in The International Journal of Holistic...

Becoming, becoming me, becoming who I always knew I was but felt it unsafe to be. As I embrace my journey towards menopause as a positive, empowering transformation into the wise, older woman with a twinkle in her eye, the one I always looked up to, I feel the...

I am very familiar with healing co-dependence as it is one of the core issues I needed to address in my life. Looking back at my old diaries, I see that my life was rife with co-dependence. I didn’t have a name for it until recently. I believe co-dependence is a...