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Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma: Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of Healing

By Chris Lyford — 2021

Like most people of color in the United States, psychotherapist and researcher Monnica Williams has experienced myriad forms of racism. Early in her career, understanding its effects on her mind and body motivated her to help clients address their own racial trauma in therapy.

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Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice

In this revolutionary approach to living well, a pioneering trauma-release therapist puts relief in reach—with a multi-modal practice that can be done at home.

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Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger

White supremacy in the United States has long necessitated that Black rage be suppressed, repressed, or denied, often as a means of survival, a literal matter of life and death.

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Journeys with Plant Spirits: Plant Consciousness Healing and Natural Magic Practices

In this book, Emma Farrell explains how to take your connection and relationship with nature to a deeper level and access plant spirit healing through meditation with plants.

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The Power of Community

I hope you are well. Before today’s sit, I share with you the single most necessary component of a meditation practice, the aspect that actually keeps it all going. I have learned this after teaching (literally) thousands and thousands of people how to meditate.

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Interview with Meditation Leader: Biet Simkin

Biet Simkin is a meditation + spiritual leader in the celebrity world. We discuss how her book, "Don't Just Sit There!: 44 Insights to Get Your Meditation Practice Off the Cushion and Into the Real World", can help others during COVID-19.

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New Research Shows Simple Meditation Can Outperform a Standard V.A. Trauma Therapy — Part 1

Belleruth describes recent research from the San Diego VA Hospital, which concludes that Transcendental Meditation decreases symptom severity in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, outperforming Prolonged Exposure Therapy.

Belleruth Naparstek

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Psychedelics: Treating Addiction, Depression and Anxiety with Dr. Roland Griffiths

Psychedelics were the subject of serious medical research in the 1940s to the 1960s, when many scientists believed some of the mind-bending compounds held tremendous therapeutic promise for treating a number of conditions including severe mental health problems and alcohol addiction.

Roland Griffiths

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Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places

Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffering that arise from trauma and how meditation practices can support a path to full spiritual healing.

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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

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The Sanity We Are Born With: A Buddhist Approach to Psychology

More and more mental health professionals are discovering the rich tradition of Buddhist psychology and integrating its insights into their work with clients.

Chögyam Trungpa, Daniel Goleman (foreword)

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