Primal Therapy And Natural Health

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and...

Thank you for asking about my work.   If you’ve visited my website you know that I’m not a licensed therapist and do not have the...

Part 1:    https://www.primaltherapyandnaturalhealth.com/post/my-encounter-with-autoimmune-disorder It has been 2 months since I made my...

Recently, a former client of mine wrote to me about the frustration he was experiencing when he self-primaled.  He was feeling none of...

Aletha Solter is a Swiss developmental psychologist who studied with Jean Piaget.  She specializes in human attachment theory and trauma...

What does it mean to “understand” the traumatic experience(s) we once suffered? During a trauma there is little or no conscious...

During the spring of 2023, I began to experience double vision, trouble speaking, and trouble swallowing.   Suspecting a stroke, I went...

“Life is all memory, except for the present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.” Tennessee Williams This quote...

Arthur Janov developed his idea of three-leveled consciousness from Paul MacLean’s model of the triune brain. The latter argued that our...

Neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux (1) has modified his fear memory model in a way that may help to better understand primal therapy and its...

In my book Fear Memory Integration I include a discussion of experiments that Joseph LeDoux conducted regarding fear memory retrieval and...

The willful practice of staying with a feeling “is the central and crucial mechanism in all feeling-oriented regressive psychotherapy”. ...

My background blog about Erik Hoffman: https://www.primaltherapyandnaturalhealth.com/post/primal-therapy-and-erik-hoffmann Hoffman:...

The chemical definition of dissociation is the breaking apart of a molecule into its basic elements. H20, for example, can be...

Doctor Erik Hoffmann is a man who "became insatiably curious to understand how brain functions are related to consciousness". He...

Source document: Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18(12), 6625; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18126625 Radosław Stupak and...

What is trauma? Peter Levine defines trauma as being any event that is perceived (consciously or unconsciously) as being life threatening....

Janov used the terms ‘real self’, unreal self’, and the ‘split’ in his discussions about the development of neurosis. What do these...

The Imprint is a collection of remembered unconscious survival reactions. When these reactions are environmentally cued, we become...

Psychotherapist Alice Miller says that “It is not the trauma itself that is the source of illness, but the unconscious, repressed,...