Free PDF of "Know Thyself: A Kid's Guide to the Archetypes" by Kiersten Marek, LICSW
Reblogged from Therapy with Kiersten Marek, LICSW: I am currently in the final stages of revisions for my first ever therapy book, “Know Thyself: A Kid’s Guide to the Archetypes.” If you would like to receive a free PDF of the book, please send me an email at kiersten.marek@gmail.com. This offer is only good until [...]
The Controversial Placebo Effect of Antidepressants
The article linked below captures many facets of the complicated beast known as psychiatry under the influence of corporate pressure from Big Pharma. In particular what struck me were the descriptions of how colleagues of Irving Kirsch, whose research exposes that antidepressants on the whole are no more effective than placebo, have been ostracized and [...]
Come to my Free 6-week Writing Workshop Using the Archetypes
Reblogged from Therapy with Kiersten Marek, LICSW: UPDATE: This workshop starts tonight! Looking forward to it! Innocent ❂ Wounded Child Warrior ❂ Caregiver Explorer ❂ Soul Mate ❂ Destroyer ❂ Artist Leader ❂ Guru ❂ Healer ❂ Fool “Creative Writing Through the Archetypes” a 6-Week Writing Workshop When: starting Thursday, April 5th, 2012, from 6:00 [...]
Learning About Archetypes with Homestarrunner
This video will be part of my 3-hour seminar on March 19 entitled, “Know Thyself: Using Archetypes to Understand and Heal Children.” Be there if you want to know how Strong Bad, Strong Sad, and Homestarrunner can help us know our archetypes!
This Will Save You Some Money
Three women in Florida are charged with taking advantage of troubled souls. Three women are accused in Florida with scamming people out of thousands of dollars by promising to cleanse them of evil spirits. Federal prosecutors in Fort Lauderdale say 36-year-old Polly Evans, 32-year-old Bridgette Evans, and 22-year-old Olivia Evans are facing federal fraud charges. [...]
The Warrior in All of Us
Oh, the warriors within us! Longfellow said it eloquently: ”If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s … suffering enough to disarm all hostility.” Indeed. And yet, we do find many things to argue about. Usually it’s not so much about the subject as it is about someone being [...]
Long Road to Healing
Neurological researcher Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke twelve years ago and became her own experimental subject as she fought her way to recovery. She documents her journey in a book, ‘My Stroke of Insight’. Although the sporadically discontinuous flow of normal cognition was virtually incapacitating, somehow I managed to keep my body on task. [...]
Nonviolence With the Pros
NPR’s Dave Davies interviews author Bruce Weber about the life of an umpire. What jumps out from all the other fascinating facts (whole transcript here) is the umpire’s technique for conflict resolution… Mr. WEBER: Well, the thing about umpires and arguments is that an umpire goes against his instincts as a human being. Most people, [...]
Ehrenreich Argues for Better Thinking, Not Positive Thinking
I will definitely need to read Barbara Ehrenreich’s newest book. Not only is she one of my favorite political writers, but now she is delving into cultural criticism related to the mental health field’s relentless pursuit of “positive thinking.” Newsweek’s Julia Baird provides a short review: [...] In her new book, Bright-Sided: How Relentless Promotion [...]
Fiction is Good for the Brain
Here’s some news I feel like I’ve always known intuitively: writing fiction fine-tunes the brain. For more than two thousand years people have insisted that reading fiction is good for you. Aristotle claimed that poetry—he meant the epics of Homer and the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, which we would now call fiction—is a [...]
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