Jim Salico-Diehl, Psychotherapist

08/11/2017

Sorrow needs expression.

In Finland, lament singing is experiencing a revival, one sad song at a time.

07/17/2017

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/smarter-living/how-to-find-the-right-therapist.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share

To find The One, I needed to date around and swipe my way through therapists.

06/14/2017

Be where you are, my dear fellow Monkey Whisperers. Stay connected.

05/26/2017

04/19/2017

For people with a trauma history, it can be difficult to separate ourselves from the trauma. We may feel badly about ourselves, experience excessive guilt and shame, or feel a general malaise or "dirty" feeling. We may experience ourselves as if we were somehow the perpetrators or cause of the trauma.

We are not our traumas. But our traumas can nestle themselves so deeply into our bodies, that they change the way our brain functions; and those thoughts and feelings of badness and guilt become our reality.

I encourage all of us to be gentle with ourselves, wherever we are. And as we notice the pain, may we also notice the spark of life burning within us. Friends, it is indeed a miracle that we are even here.

Have a beautiful day, my fellow Monkey Whisperers. Stay connected.




(I can not find the attribution for this quote. It may be by Lesa Lundquist, but I am not sure. If any of you know for certain, please let me know. :) )

04/15/2017

Become unstuck.

04/04/2017

We must be mindful of what our bodies can tell us about our trauma.
"...when people are in the trauma state, they actually shut down the frontal parts of their brain and particularly the area on the left cortex called Broca’s area, which is responsible for speech."

// One of the foremost experts in the field, Bessel Van der Kolk describes trauma as a breakdown of the attuned physical synchrony, and is quoted in the New York Times, “Trauma has nothing whatsoever to do with cognition. It has to do with...

02/12/2017

Memories like this, of unbetrayed trust, can be a resource when we feel unsafe.

How my rage almost killed me when a conversation of the bovine sort lead me to safety and security. A surprising, good, and holy memory of resourcing.

02/08/2017

Mindfulness is the key to healing soul and body.

A new study suggests there’s some science behind the claims made for mindfulness meditation.

02/04/2017

I find that when I can bring my clients into mindfulness amazing transformations can happen.

02/02/2017

Psychotherapy is an individuation process.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.