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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.
Let’s Talk About Somatic Therapy and Mindfulness
If we circle back to these conversations I’m having about bringing the body into practice, it seems to me that what we are differentiating here is mindfulness and somatic processing. While there is overlap, they ultimately have different purposes.
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.
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.
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!
Presence of the Therapist
We invited Dawn Sather, RSW, RCC, RCC-S to offer some of her musings on being a therapist. Dawn has this lovely way of articulating and making simple the complexity of relational somatic practice.
Play Therapy Meets Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy
As a play therapist, Somatic Attachment Psychotherapy (SAP) has expanded my practice and become the framework I use to conceptualize my clinical practice.
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.
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.