by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 9, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
«We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.» Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia Introduction Eating disorders are among the most misunderstood forms of human suffering. Though they often appear...
by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 9, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“The darker the night, the brighter the stars,The deeper the grief, the closer is God!” Fyodor Dostoevsky What is Grief? Grief is not an illness. Grief is the bodymind’s way of loving what is lost. When we experience deep loss — of a loved one, a relationship, a home,...
by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 9, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“When I speak of sex, I do not mean ‘fucking,’ but the embrace prompted by genuine love. –Wilhelm Reich “It takes many months, sometimes years, to learn to know your love partner in the body… This heart-warming continuous experience of love and contact and...
by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 9, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“Panic attacks are a lot like being drunk in some ways, you loose self-control. You cry for seemingly no reason. You deal with the hangover long into the next day.” ― Sara Barnard, A Quiet Kind of Thunder When Fear Floods the Body Panic is not “in your...
by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 8, 2020 | Methods IBI
At the IBI you can contact Dirk Marivoet for supervision sessions. Dirk has been trained as a supervisor and offers his services for integrative and body-oriented psychotherapists, as well as people who guide or coach people with a body focus. Body-oriented...