by Dirk Marivoet | Aug 11, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“It is not the stress itself, but the way it shapes our breath, our tissues, our being — that determines whether we remain free or become bound.” The Many Faces of Stress This article offers a foundational orientation to how emotional and relational difficulties take...
by Dirk Marivoet | Aug 10, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“It’s so hard to describe depression to someone who’s never been there because it’s not grief. I know grief. Grief is crying and feeling. But it’s that cold absence of feeling – that really hollowed out feeling.” —J.K. Rowling...
by Dirk Marivoet | Aug 10, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“Sexual abuse is not just a violation of boundaries — it is a rupture in the fabric of the self. It affects not only mind and emotion, but also breath, fascia, posture, and the deepest sense of embodied safety.” This article offers a foundational orientation to how...
by Dirk Marivoet | Aug 5, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
You are not punished for your anger, you are punished because of your anger. Buddha Hatred is a matter of the heart; despise that of the head. Arthur Schopenhauer What is anger? Anger is one of the basic emotions of man. An important function of anger is to indicate...
by Dirk Marivoet | Aug 3, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
“Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage.” ― John J. Ratey This article offers a foundational orientation to how emotional and relational difficulties take form in the body. For a deeper exploration of how anxiety patterns become organized within the...
by Dirk Marivoet | Jul 9, 2020 | Clinical & Developmental Themes
— Bessel van der Kolk, MD «Trauma victims cannot recover until they become familiar with and befriend the sensations in their bodies.» How can PTSD develop? Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can develop in someone after experiencing or witnessing an event that...