Now, I’m happy with who I am. And not because some boy or an audience is giving me approval. I’m happy with myself, and that’s all that matters — I’m not chasing approval from anyone anymore.
Now that the cycle has been forced to stop (I can’t play any shows or see anyone in person, let alone a boy I have a crush on), there’s nothing to look forward to. Infatuation was always because of this or that — but that’s not what happiness is at all. Happiness is something deeper, that doesn’t come from anyone else, and can’t be taken away by anyone else.
Now, happiness doesn’t feel temporary anymore — no longer like an hour glass with sand coming out.
It’s not like I’ll always feel this way all day everyday, but I know I can always go back to this.
Read moreWe’re all in this together
As more of us start to get tested, we’ll begin the necessary -- yet frightening -- process of tracing our possible contact with those who test positive. There will be the tendency to point fingers, especially, as we have seen, at Asian Americans.
You have the choice: will you be xenophobic? Resentful? Blaming? Will you feed into the political divide currently raging in our country?
Liberal, conservative, we’re all in this together. This virus affects all of us, regardless of our skin color or political preference. This can unite us or divide us. We all get to choose which.
Make the right choice.
Read moreFor several years, Ken Wilber (creator of Integral Theory), has been talking about how close to 10% of the world's population is reaching the next stage of psychological development (2nd tier consciousness for any Integralists out there), which creates a tipping point: with that much of the population at that developmental stage, that stage's values will start to be infused in our world's systems.
Anyone who studies developmental psychology knows that crises (such as this virus) act as fulcrums to launch us to the next stage of development (breakdown > breakthrough). I believe this is the exact thing our species needs to launch us to our next stage of development, which will be an unprecedented shift because it's a whole different tier of consciousness.
Read moreIn August of last year, as part of my year-long psychedelic-assisted therapy training program at CIIS, I volunteered at a legal psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) retreat center in Amsterdam called Synthesis. Of 4 facilitators, I was the only female facilitator, and one of 2 licensed therapists. 15 participants took a high dose of psilocybin during a 3-day retreat in a beautiful renovated church in the small beach town of Zandvoort.
Read moreSo often, I hear therapists say, “I don’t want to spend a lot of time thinking about marketing. I didn’t get into this profession for business. I just want to do therapy.” I get it, you don’t have time to attend all those networking luncheons, you’re not a blogger, you may even know about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), but don’t have time to do anything about it. I hear you; but, we gotta get people in the door, and with so many therapists from which to choose, we have to make ourselves stand out. But that doesn’t have to be as painful or time-consuming as you think.
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