Buddhism and Essential Wholeness
Body, Mind, Soul and Spirit Essential Wholeness is the sum total of what it is to be a human being. We are human and we are being. Our Essential Wholeness includes body, mind, soul and spirit. What is changing and what is unchanging. What is changing is like an ecosystem. As human animals we are […]
Enneagram Type NINE’s Hero’s Journey
Enneagram Type NINE – Tales from the Therapy Room: Waking Up! Jane has an Enneagram type NINE personality structure. She came in with her husband Bill for marital therapy, was shocked when her husband announced he was leaving the marriage to live with a woman he’d been having an affair with for some time. Although she […]
Neuroscientist Dan Siegel Acknowledges Enneagram
Separation and Identity The anxieties, frustrations, insecurities, resentments or even the simple discontent that drives most people’s lives, is caused by the separation from our essential nature that occurs by the holding onto a solid, permanent sense of self. This sense of an isolated me is created and maintained by beliefs that create perceptions that […]
What Paradigm Defines your Psychotherapeutic Approach?
Psychotherapeutic Paradigms – Dominant-submissive vs. Ecological Cooperation Many of those who adopt psychoanalytic theory contend that it is important for the socially constructed ego to maintain control over the emotional impulses of the id and other emotional impulses stored in the unconscious mind. The connections that can be drawn from the personal to the larger, […]