Dissociative Dyslexia
Introduction While exploring learning disorders and healing from trauma-related symptoms and normative dissociation, Ron Davis’s work on Orientation Counseling (HERE)
Introduction While exploring learning disorders and healing from trauma-related symptoms and normative dissociation, Ron Davis’s work on Orientation Counseling (HERE)
WHI are launching our version of D.A.R.E. to help combat the misinformation that drugs are “bad”. This offering is particular
“Harder still it has proved to rule the dragon Money… a whole generation adopted false principles, and went to their graves in the
A row of trees lines the family farm, that was subdivided into more harm. The land that no one can
Introduction “Scope of practice” is a legal term that requires healthcare professionals to stay within their training and education to
Recently some healthcare professionals received an email from the Department of Education (DOE) that they all have to take an
(A Dissociation-Informed and Recovery-Focused Poem) I once had a beatific vision that one day we would write a poem that
When re-establishing a profession and professional service in response to the shortcoming of another or filling in a societal truth that has failed to be recognized, the new profession, philosophy, and their practice must justify its existence to the other existing professions. In doing so, we define ourselves as different or other, which leads to different societal issues, interpretations, professional conflicts, and tests our philosophical understanding of what is true and what is false. This is particularly true for mental health, which is why we broke it down emphatically (O’Brien, 2024a; O’Brien, 2024b; O’Brien, 2024c).
What is a recovering therapist? A few years back we (this author) socially met a lawyer who first introduced himself as a “recovering lawyer”. To us, by identifying the qualifier of “recovery” from his profession, he was acknowledging that he learned something from his lived experience and was deciding to practice his profession differently. As a professional in the field, his lived experience had made him morally continue to be what he was trained to be, but educated enough by his lived experience to behave differently in his profession (See O’Brien, 2024c for the difference between trained and educated).
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The Wounded Healers Institute does not provide or sell cannabis for any aspect of our program, training or events, and it is not a retailer, supplier, manufacturer, reseller, distributor, agent, representative or subcontractor of any cannabis supplier or retailer. Our services do not constitute therapy and we do not diagnose or treat mental health. What we do do is provide access to wellness, posttraumatic growth, and resiliency models to employ the spiritual and developmental model of Addiction as Dissociation and use The Path of the Wounded Healer as our guide.
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