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BC SPCA Wild ARC – Generous Acts of Love

BC SPCA Wild ARC – Generous Acts of Love

Last week we spent an afternoon meeting with some staff and volunteers from the BC SPCA Wild ARC (Wild Animal Rehabilitation Centre) in Metchosin. It was incredible to learn about the exquisite care the team offers to injured and orphaned wild animals, and overwhelming to put together just how many hands and hearts it takes to run the animal hospital.

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Witnessing: The Embodied Therapist

Witnessing: The Embodied Therapist

As therapists, we serve as witness, and in doing so, material that has been rendered unbearable, becomes tolerable enough to metabolize. What happens when current events rattle us as therapists? Lisa offers a few thoughts on the roles that embodiment, witnessing, and connection play in therapy.

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The Grief of Chronic Shame

The Grief of Chronic Shame

Grief has potent clinical relevance in the healing of chronic shame. At some point in the treatment, as the client comes to see and better understand the multitude of ways that the unseen hand of chronic shame has formed, guided, and limited their life, both past and present, a real grief and sadness will emerge.

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Reflections on therapy, the body and culture

Reflections on therapy, the body and culture

I posed this quote for a free writing exercise one morning at a BBP writing group. What came back was potent, powerful, illuminating, expansive, opening, affirming—you get the drift. We decided to share it…here it goes,  you’ll see responses from four different therapists and writers ~ enjoy!

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Orienting to Other

Orienting to Other

We are living in a traumatised world. Wars, natural disasters, climate change, pandemics, epidemics, starvation, extinctions, create complex situations that interfere with healthy functioning and relational dynamics which then continue to perpetuate trauma.

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What Therapists are Saying about the Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy Training

What Therapists are Saying about the Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy Training

This fall we graduated two cohorts from the Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy 2-year trainings. As we were basking in the glow of the hard and heart work, theirs and ours, we started thinking about getting an insider’s perspective to the training for the BBP blog. We asked for some thoughts, comments, testimonials, whatever people wanted to offer…here’s a few to chew on.

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