What Tylenol Teaches Us About Trauma

What Tylenol Teaches Us About Trauma

An excerpt from my new book, The Deep Work: Psychology professor and researcher, Dr. Alan Fogel, shares that “over the course of evolution, our bodies decided to take the economic route and use a single neural system to detect and feel pain, regardless of whether it...
The Tragic Irony of Shadow Projection

The Tragic Irony of Shadow Projection

Irony Shadow projection Blind spots Accusation as confession Hypocrisy All five are synonymous dynamics. They all hinge on denial, which creates a blind spot or shadow, which is eventually projected as toxic hurt. Such a person also commits hypocrisy because they are...
A Heart-Mind Compass for Troubling Times

A Heart-Mind Compass for Troubling Times

Learning to discern what is true is crucial for our times. I like to call relatively certain, carefully vetted truth, the “most likely truth.” It’s the level of certainty we have about most hot topics these days.When you don’t know how to identify objective truth, you...
On Taking Things Personally

On Taking Things Personally

When I was in the depths of my shadow and core wound work many years ago, I took the message of this meme to an extreme, for the purpose of overturning every inner stone I could. I took everything personally so that I could examine as many of my defunct patterns as...