Trauma Therapist & MD Psychotherapist. Founder of Caring for Self while Caring for Others series. Certified in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Previous EM MD
Toronto, Ontario
Joined October 2018
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Offering ongoing workshops on a wide range of topics dealing with preventing and healing from burnout; on connection and transformation. We have an informative Facebook page as well. #selfcareinhealthcare @OntariosDoctors @CMA_Docs @OMSAofficial facebook.com/WhileCaringForO…
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'Trauma-Informed'
A poem and video I pieced together on what a trauma-informed society looks to me.
What does it look like to you?
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"Because every system of knowing carries the risk of foreclosure. And every patient is already burdened by having been too known, too early, too falsely. To frame them again is a risk. But to refuse framing is abandonment.
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So we frame - carefully, provisionally, paradoxically. We allow the orbit, we feel the gravity, we trace the vapor - all the while knowing that what we are seeing is 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 of something more central, more condensed, more hidden: the singularity
"But if we have learned nothing else, we have learned this: Humans can walk away from, and forget, 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. Civilization can go back to 'normal' after 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔."
Mahlo and an Unknown (anomaly? ideatic threat?), in conversation, in: goodreads.com/book/show/2233…
Of Denis Johnson's last work, Sam Sacks, WSJ, beautifually states:“Johnson’s stories tread a crooked path through illness, addiction, criminality, mania and simple existential confusion. His gift is to extract the beauty in all that brokenness, like the painters who
pulled holy light out of the wounds of martyrs. "
We were gifted to have Denis and he left us (in a way he's already half-here and half-there in these five stories) such a stunning collection of work.
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"Pain is a lonely experience. We can only put a small part of our traumatic experiences into words; most of it remains solitary, invisible, orphaned ... Language often failed me; it could not capture my experience. Instead, it became an armor that I was wearing, covering my
And this is often a missing piece in psychiatric and psychotherapeutic care.
"When a part of us is completely banned from a relationship, our aliveness is emptied with it. We unconsciously numb and deaden our closest relationships to create a sense of safety, to make sure we can stay stable and regulated. We keep harmony and sacrifice our life force.
We hide our needs and disappointments and lose each other."
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"As frightened children, we live with an internal conflict; dysregulated by closeness and upset by distance, aroused by danger, and overwhelmed by tenderness."
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The need for increased awareness of dissociation in autism; increased screening for trauma, PTSD, and dissociation in individuals with high autistic traits; and the development of targeted interventions that address both conditions simultaneously.
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"Isn't it ironic," says Andrei, "that the executioner becomes the victim, and the victim becomes the executioner? Our system, if you think of it, is pure genius: executioners and victims are the same people. The engine of death has been in motion for decades,
and no one is guilty, because everyone is guilty."
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