Life’s Crises From An Expanded Worldview — I once heard a Rabbi tell the story of how lobsters shed their shells. He explained how the crustacean finds a place under a rock and discards its outer protection. The old shell no longer fits, but in order for the lobster to understand that a change is required, it…

How We Suffer Because We Don’t Understand What Our Mind & Body Are Trying To Show Us — Several years ago the renowned Canadian trauma and addiction specialist Dr Gabor Maté read out the following passage at the Breath Of Life Conference in London, England. The problematic situations in your life are not chance or haphazard. They are specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of…

Why society must begin to collectively take responsibility for the trauma it causes. — A society incapable of acknowledging and taking responsibility for the harm being caused by the way in which it is structured and run, locates mental illness in people instead of in itself. On a hot summer’s night in 1969 cult leader Charles Manson ordered members of the Manson Family to…