The 4 Core Addictions & Their Unclaimed Gifts: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
The Four Core Addictions and Their Unclaimed Gifts There are four core addictions found across cultures in the experience of human life. Typically when we…
A Moment of Healing: The Power of Allostatic Growth
It is striking how our human undoing can occur so quickly. While healing seems to happen only with herculean effort over months or years, trauma…
Deaths of Despair to Lives of Repair: A Four-Fold Path to Societal Healing
Not just another article about despair: solutions included. If we are at all paying attention, it can feel like we are swimming in a sea…
Trauma: What We Can Do Better Now
Shifting the treatment paradigm for trauma, an allostatic lens asks new questions & includes harm prevention at the highest levels. After Gina returned home from…
What is the Middle Way?
Exploring the science, spirit, emotion, and holding of Middleness. “That’s yuck, Steve can have it,” my 3 year old daughter said, pushing away the yogurt-in-disguise…
Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There
This post is about allostatic load (cumulative stress), set points, and full recovery. “Don’t just do something, stand there,” the White Rabbit said to Alice…
Your Right To Exist and 8 Other Individual Rights You May Not Know You Have
Do you really want to heal? This is a sincere reflective question to connect with our motivation for change. Do I really want to feel…
Seven Foundational Principles to Live By When You Don’t Know What To Do
Should we move to Canada? Like many of you, my family and friends have had this discussion on and off over the years, usually after…
What Really Causes High Blood Pressure: The Stress of Social Judgment
Salt may be just an “innocent bystander” in the big picture of hypertension rather than the culprit it has been assumed to be for years.(1)…
Allostasis Embodied for 102 Years
Today I attended the memorial service for beloved community member Paul Petrul. Although most of his peers passed years ago, the church was packed with…