Depth Emergence

08/25/2025

“I HEAR YOU” … what the true Guru says…

There’s a difference between listening and hearing.

07/15/2025

ISPS-US 24th Annual Conference November 8-9th: Full Conference University Of Illinois Chicago, Student Center West | Hybrid Online CEs available: ACCME, ANCC, APA, ASWB boards, and for Illinois Certified Peer Recovery Specialists.

Check out the schedule for ISPS-US 2025 Annual Conference

06/18/2025

Education and employment … purpose and meaning… didn’t we know this already?

Researchers in Norway find people with psychosis are most satisfied with services that help them work, study, and live in the community.

06/06/2025

Insight… and the power of therapy…

Clip from Lex Fridman YT Channel. Video Titled: Andrew Huberman: Relationships, Drama, Betrayal, S*x, and Love | Lex Fridman Podcast # 393 https://youtu.be/e...

05/28/2025

Feeling abandoned could be…

03/27/2025

MAD CAMP 2025 IS ON! JULY 31-AUGUST 4 APPLY NOW – DEADLINE APRIL 15TH

Where we can all run wild

03/15/2025

Is it a spiritual emergency or a pathology?

Learn how to differentiate spiritual emergency and pathology. Teacher is a pioneer with 40+ years of experience.

02/21/2025

...Researchers also note what they describe as “existential loneliness,” or a “fundamental sense of disconnection from others or the world.” Of those who were lonely, for example, 65% said they felt “fundamentally separate or disconnected from others or the world,” and 57% said they were unable to share their true selves with others.

Researchers share what Americans have to say about social disconnection and potential solutions

01/13/2025

How to cope with trauma after a fire…

Coping with emotional trauma after fire can be a real struggle. Recovering after a harrowing ordeal like a wildfire is difficult, but it is possible.

09/18/2024

Letting go and embracing our authenticity...

Join me as we talk about the journey of spiritual maturity and how highly spiritual people slowly quit certain things. In this video, we discuss how highly c...

08/29/2024

What can we learn from those who have turned their psychological crisis into a positive transformative experience? During a quarter-century documenting indigenous cultures, human-rights photographer and filmmaker Phil Borges often saw these cultures identify "psychotic" symptoms as an indicator of shamanic potential. He was intrigued by how differently psychosis is defined and treated in the West. Through interviews with renowned mental health professionals including Gabor Mate, MD, Robert Whitaker, and Roshi Joan Halifax, PhD, Phil explores the growing severity of the mental health crisis in America dominated by biomedical psychiatry. He discovers a growing movement of professionals and psychiatric survivors who demand alternative treatments that focus on recovery, nurturing social connections, and finding meaning.

08/26/2024

I spent years leading groups at a recovery center. And what I came to understand that addiction is a symptom. It’s a response. Almost always to unresolved grief. Or shame. Typically both.

No one that’s addicted enjoys the “high.” Life becomes an endless cycle of stress, betraying the people they love, and chronic lying (to themselves included.) Every spare moment is about that next drink, or the next drug— and in a way that’s a relief because it’s something to focus on. Something to briefly remove them from the brutal inner critic playing like a recording in the mind. Something to briefly remove them from the destruction they’ve created around themselves.

We say that people are in active addiction. But what they’re really in is: deep grief. Grief from the abandonment of their father, from the emotional neglect of their mother, from the death of a sibling. From the punishment of poverty or the struggle of being highly sensitive in an emotionally unaware world. And almost always: from the death of their true self. A self they could never be because family or society said it was wrong, bad, or something to be ashamed of.

Addiction is the symptom.

Grief is under the surface