Are You Ready To Take Your Bodywork Or Healing Practice To The Next Level? On the importance of the relationship between the client and the body-worker by Alexis Johnson, PhD. Velveteen Rabbit: “What is Real?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit. “Real isn’t how you are made”, said the Skin Horse. “It is a thing that happens …
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Are You Ready To Take Your Bodywork Or Healing Practice To The Next Level? On the importance of the relationship between the client and the body-worker by Alexis Johnson, PhD. Velveteen Rabbit: “What is Real?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit. “Real isn’t how you are made”, said the Skin Horse. “It is a thing that happens …
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Florida Reflections by Judith Schmidt, PhD. “In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a new born child, a new face that has never been before and will never be again. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence it demands you”. (M. Buber) It was a wonderful Florida learning retreat…the …
Forces to Feelings to Words Body awareness in the pre-personal world by Alexis Johnson, PhD. You have to be very concentrated while you listen. You have to focus on the practice of listening with all your attention, your whole being: your eyes, ears, body and your mind. If you just pretend to listen, and do …
HELPING WITH SHOCK TRAUMA by Alexis Johnson, PhD “..Each man’s death diminishes me, For I am involved in all mankind. Therefore, send not to know for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.” -John Donne “You can never solve a problem at the level at which it was created. You have to go to …
by Alexis Johnson, Ph.D. During the fall of 2002, the Washington DC area was terrorized by a string of deadly sniper attacks. The culprits have turned out to be two men: a 42 year old American black veteran of the first gulf war and an 18 year old Jamaican. The defense for the young man …
Shame and the Capacity for Self-Reflection by Alexis Johnson, Ph.D. Only in an open, nonjudgmental space can we acknowledge what we are feeling. Only in an open space where we’re not all caught up in our own version of reality can we see and hear and feel who others really are, which allows us to …
Hope and Resilience by Judith Sarah Schmidt, PhD. “Hope is a thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops at all” –Emily Dickinson The taproot of the capacity for hope can be located in earliest infancy. This root is a wordless, body and sensory centered …
JUDITH SARAH SCHMIDT PhD Have you ever observed a baby as it finds the face of its mother? How intent it is as it lingers there, drinks deeply with its eyes the eyes of her, the smile of her? The tone of her voice, her gestures, her smell and heartbeat are all part of what …
HIDE AND SEEK: THOUGHTS ON THE ACT OF CREATION By Judith Sarah Schmidt, Ph.D. I first saw Irena on a video tape brought back from a Romanian orphanage by her prospective adoptive mother. She showed me the tape because of her concerns about the developmental intactness of this seventeen month old girl. When I viewed …
