Our work and our mission is to redefine therapy and our conversations are about the art and practice of healing. This blog was launched in May 2018 by Dr. Jamie Marich, affiliates, and friends.
Originally published on the Dancing Mindfulness Expressive Arts Therapy Blog, 5/4/2017 If you’ve followed Dancing Mindfulness and other projects connected to my Institute for Creative Mindfulness work, you’ve likely encountered the hashtag #redefinetherapy. What started as a book chapter and a hashtag is quickly turning into a movement that you
The term disability or identifying as disabled has long been seen by mainstream society as negative, wrong, bad, a character flaw, dirty, tragic, pitiful, or an inability. Those with disabilities are seen as having a lesser value and remain outside the human experience. This way of thinking and the discomfort
Several years ago a workshop attendee came up to me after a continuing education class to pay me a compliment. The attendee relayed to me that his boss had warned him that although I knew my stuff, I was a bit “hippy dippy” for that person’s tastes. Hippy dippy? Because
Where do I even begin? So many thoughts and feelings have swirled in me as I’ve read the myriad posts and articles commenting on so-called “cancel culture.” Because unhealed and activated trauma can impact the way that the brain organizes information, I am admittedly having difficulty putting coherent
“This is not so much an opioid epidemic we are in – it is more a trauma epidemic that people take opiates for.” – My admonition to my therapists and trainees since the early 2010s. In 2015, I started a pilot project at an addiction treatment agency in order to
I wanted to write you a think piece A cogent reflection on an issue of Great social import— What it’s like to be raised in the Culture of conspiracy Yet my brain is still a bit too scrambled To weave coherent sentences together Probably because phrases like “Deep state” and
Over the last few days, there has been a call for unification and healing in the United States. As a trauma therapist, I’d like to outline the Consensus Model for trauma treatment as a template for how to approach this sort of unifying and healing. This model, more than 100-years
During my time as a student in the drama department at NYU, in between presenting scenes, and performing in plays, I spent a lot of time rolling around on the floors of black box studios and makeshift rehearsal spaces. The process of developing my skills as an actor took on
Last year, I had a phone meeting with a local pastor to provide someone in my network a recommendation. The lead pastor of a young, hip, non-denominational storefront church that draws many from our local recovery community, he was very friendly and expressed an interest in the work that I
Since the media called President-Elect Biden’s win on Saturday November 7, numerous calls are rising up for the healing of a divided nation. Even the President-Elect himself called for it in his victory speech. I am in the business of healing, and I am pessimistic. Perhaps because, while I recognize
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