Tag: mental health

  • Directions: Rational choice. Intuition. Happiness.

    Directions: Rational choice. Intuition. Happiness.

    “”.. ’twas somewhat about good days falling to wise folk, but the best days of all falling to those who dare to be unwise.” Sigrid Undset, Kristin Lavransdatter

  • Directions: Mindfulness / Zen

    Directions: Mindfulness / Zen

    “The water of the valley stream is always flowing. It races on, not pausing for even an instant. Its sound, to me, is the sound of time. The water of time glistens on the riverbed of the universe. Though theirs is a much of slower flow, stones, trees, houses, and towns are flowing too. Human…

  • “Recovering Meaning and Purpose” – A New Program Started by Numa, Inc.

    “Recovering Meaning and Purpose” – A New Program Started by Numa, Inc.

    In May 2025, we began a new project in which we partner with S.T.A.R. Care Services of Fort Wayne, IN, which runs several Transitional Living Homes in Allen County, IN. We provide their clients with spiritually-oriented group therapy supporting recovery in substance abuse and mental health, as well as in the adjustment to life after…

  • Symptoms: Panic Disorder

    Symptoms: Panic Disorder

  • Żałoba

    Żałoba

    “Pająki to istoty żałoby. W wierzeniach Igbo stworzenia te ściągają do domów znękanych rozpaczą, przędąc ogrom pajęczyn i tkając bezszelestnie, gorliwie, dopóty ta skłębiona przędza nie zaleje ogromnych przestrzeni.” Chigozie Obioma “Rybacy” – na Wielki Piątek Przekł: A. Brownstein

  • Schizofrenia a choroba dwubiegunowa

    Schizofrenia a choroba dwubiegunowa

    Antoni Kępiński napisał w “Schizofrenii”, że w relacji klinicznej można intuicyjnie wyczuć różnicę pomiędzy psychozą wynikającą z zaburzenia afektywnego dwubiegunowego a epizodem schizofrenii. Jeśli po sesji czujemy się wypruci w energii, to rozmawialiśmy w osobą z “dwubiegunówką.” Jeśli czujemy, że rzeczywistość się od nas odkleja – z osobą ze schizofrenią. Miał rację.

  • Spirituality and Healing in Mental Health

    Spirituality is an important aspect in healing community and intergenerational trauma. Over the last year, when James W. Williams, a co-founder of Numa, Inc. and I talked with the Ukrainian psychotherapists and psychologists in our supervision / introvision group “Clinical Social Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced People,” our colleagues and friends in the group…

  • Inspirations: Compassion. Lorraine Hansberry. Black Women’s Excellence

    Inspirations: Compassion. Lorraine Hansberry. Black Women’s Excellence

    “Child, when do you think is the time to love somebody the most? When they done good and made things easy for everybody? Well then, you ain’t through learning- because that ain’t the time at all… when you starts measuring somebody, measure him right, child, measure him right. Make sure you done taken into account…

  • Directions: Mind, Openness

    Directions: Mind, Openness

  • Directions: Beauty, Creativity. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima

    Directions: Beauty, Creativity. Rudolfo Anaya, Bless Me, Ultima