Some therapists believe that they should not engage with alters, particularly child alters, because that would encourage dissociation. There is no need to fear that you are encouraging dissociation in…
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In his 2010 book, Reconciliation: Healing The Inner Child, Thich Nhat Hanh suggests using mindfulness to listen with compassion to our inner child. This can be very helpful for those…
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All children, however young, picks up messages way long before they are able to process their meaning conceptually. From birth, we immediately begin to construct our our ego, our lens,…
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Therapists aiming to deal with patient’s adverse experiences in childhood sometimes attempt to offer corrective experiences to reverse the damage. In trying to describe that approach, the term “re-parenting” is…
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In general, therapists are taught that depression has a good chance to respond to medication when it is feels like a physical illness. In other words, if a person is tired and exhausted,…
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