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Dreaming with Purpose: How the Mind’s Hidden GPS Can Guide Us Toward Personal and Societal Healing

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For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. For trauma survivors, these visions often spill into waking life as flashbacks, blurring the line between sleep and waking reality. People dreamed of tidal waves, crumbling cities, and faceless threats.

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30 Ways a Writing Practice Can Help Trauma Recovery

The Art of Healing Trauma

I’m planning to write at least 10 minutes a day, stream of consciousness, censorship and judgment-free, incorporating body awareness at times to improve groundedness. This list includes the 7 benefits from the last article and 23 additional benefits. This process may shift how we typically respond to the memory in the future.

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Multiplicity and Mad Studies: An Interview with Jazmine Russell

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Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. Her work is deeply informed by her lived experiences surviving complex trauma, psychosis, and an autoimmune disease. This has led her to bridge critical neuroscience communities with the mad movement.

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Embracing the Shadow—Charlie Morley on Lucid Dreaming as Therapy

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In 2018, he was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship to research PTSD treatment in military veterans and continues to teach workshops for people with trauma-affected sleep. A lucid dream is any dream where you’re actively aware of the fact that you’re dreaming as the dream is happening. Charlie Morley: Thank you.

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Kermit Cole: Dialogical Therapy and Quantum Theory Walk Into a Bar…

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H ello, my name is Bob Whitaker, and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Kermit Cole. We’ll be speaking about a philosophical enterprise that Kermit is now deeply engaged in. That is, broadly speaking, how humor can help in creating a shared experience that is helpful to the healing process. Listen to the audio of the interview here.