To truly love, to love in a way that speaks to our highest potential and deepest need, one cannot help but veer into territory that may be called spiritual, that is, touching realms of selflessness, openness of heart, intuitive recognition, tenderness, care, and a willingness to understand, to go beyond self and ego, above all …
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The doorway to healing
Becoming comfortable with uncomfortable thoughts, feelings, memories and emotions is the essential aspect of the healing journey. Though this may come in different forms at different places and times, the lesson is always the same: We must bring back within what we have shut off, closed down, and barricaded ourselves against. At the outset this …
Therapy: It’s not just discussing your problems
Therapy is not simply talking about your problems. To be sure, this is an important part of the process. Wading through the difficult content of your life is necessary to establish a working understanding of how your experiences are impacting you. At some point, however, if true healing is what you are looking for, then …
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Sometimes we need to be cracked open
Sometimes we need to be cracked open. Sometimes this is the only way. Sometimes the depth and breadth of our innermost potential can only be manifest through a piercing of the veil of ourselves, of who we believe we were, toward a new understanding, a revelation, of who we actually are.
Nick Bustos, PhD, LMFT 