What Makes Spiritual Psychology So Unique
When love is applied to hurt, we heal. This is the slogan of Spiritual Psychology. Though simple to read but to put this into practice can be challenging. How do we apply love to hurt? What if all I feel is anger, anxiety, hurt, and shame? Because we cannot get angry enough to heal. We cannot shame ourselves enough to make the situation better. We cannot drink ourselves into oblivion enough,...Learn More
Couple’s Counseling with Spiritual Psychology
Throw everything out the window – the labeling, your judgments, your belief system, and what is right versus wrong. If you can do this, then let couple’s counseling begin. When couple’s enter our facility, they are desperate. Something is wrong and they want to fix it – but in their own way. “If she only listened.” “If he would just do what I wanted, everything would be just fine.” You may...Learn More
Improving Elder Care
My friend who lives in Los Angeles is spearheading a movement named Roar – which stands for Respect Oversight Advocacy and Reform – for Long Term Care. I am all to familiar with the problems she faced with her mother in care facilities and produced a few award winning films in the process. Last weekend Roar had events in eight cities around the USA – one being Tacoma – which I...Learn More
Recovery – The 12 Steps Of Spiritual Psychology
I started working at a 12 Step facility 32 years ago – trying to heal the world. I soon discovered that the approach wasn’t working. Too many clients were relapsing and returning to our facility, all saying they were going to do the program better this time. Was it them or was it the program? In graduate school, suddenly I was exposed to something different, more, “in the trenches,” where...Learn More
On Your Mark, Get Set, Go…
If you weren’t aware of it by now, you are the only person who is going to heal you. You might think that your parents, your partner, a friend, the government, your Higher Power, or even your therapist is going to heal you – but that isn’t true. The only person that has ultimate control is you and that is the person who has the ability to do so. We put so much faith in doctors, and doctors...Learn More
Relapse, The Honest Truth
The elite recovery facilities often boast of having a 97% success rates or higher. How can this be verified? If I advertised that we had such a high success rate, it would be a lie. Nationwide people new to recovery have a 60% relapse rate in the first year. What is important is for these people is to catch their slips quickly, learn from them, and keep on pushing forward. Why do people...Learn More
Relationship 101
To be blunt, our relationships are in chaos because we’re in chaos. Since mental health has not been a priority in school, this is probably the reason so many relationships are suffering. Until people are taught the tools to keep their emotions in check, relationships will suffer. Not knowing the proper tools, instead of focusing on cooperation, couples focus on competition. Another problem...Learn More
Creating a Strong Inner Foundation
We are only as strong as our emotional make-up. If it crumbles, we go into a crisis. For eleven years I worked at the first Mental Health Urgent Care Center, seeing over 7,000 people there, before moving up to this area to run a clinic. At the crisis center, problems, too difficult to deal with, caused problems ranging from manic episodes, psychosis, suicidal ideation, and above all –...Learn More
Advise for Budding Counselors
If you have chosen to be a counselor – fasten your seatbelt, because every issue you have ever had will be triggered. This is the good news, because as you process through the wounds of your past, it makes it easier to help others. And here is where we start – taking an honest look at yourself tops the list of the most important items to address when you are starting out in this field. You...Learn More