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Welcome
This Digital Garden is the primary place for me to strand together thoughts on counseling and contemplation in an interdisciplinary (and so very messy) endeavor. Some of the posts will be in development; others will be complete essays. If you are new, I highly recommend checking the Logistics of the Site and About pages for more information. There will be some "dead" links—these are posts or pages that I haven't yet published.
Otherwise, jump into my current readings, or check out some recent posts.
Grab a coffee, sit back, and enjoy :)
Recently Published
| File | Published | Category | Summary |
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| Parasitic Processing and Mindfulness | February 23, 2024 | Inklings | Some thoughts on parasitic processing, anxiety, and how mindfulness "works" in addressing a common form of mental distress. |
| 2024-01-15 Philosophy of Mental Illness | January 15, 2024 | Reading | - |
| Trauma, Self, and Mindfulness | January 11, 2024 | Posts | musings on how the loss of self that occur in traumatic experiences can interact with the Buddhist idea of not- / non-self (anatta). |
| The Talking Cure of Floating Brains | January 11, 2024 | Posts | What is the place of citing neuroscience for professional counselors and therapists? Does it truly represent what we do, or is it just the zeitgeist to say how X changes your brain in Y ways? Prompted by diving deep into a tiny fraction of a great book, Benjamin E. Caldwell's Saving Psychotherapy. |
| Perspective on Counseling and Contemplation | January 11, 2024 | Posts | Limits of current paradigms, the potential of human experience in counseling and cognition research, and hints of how contemplative practices may aid us in this very human journey. |
| 2024-01-10 Re-discovering Omnivore | January 09, 2024 | Reading | - |
| Defining the Radical Rogerian | January 09, 2024 | Posts | The relationship is the key intervention. Common Factors (e.g., alliance, empathy, coherent and agreed-upon plan, etc.) provide a framework for enhancing practitioner efficacy. |
| Reflections on Depersonalization-Derealization | January 08, 2024 | Posts |
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