Recently I have had a very unique experience with one of my highly religious clients. It was unusual in a sense that I felt as if even within the brokenness of this person there is something very Sacred…I was in a way ’standing on a holy ground.’ When I first started the counseling, [...]
Archive for May, 2007
Spirituality and Psychotherapy
Posted in Health, Spirituality on May 31, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Dream, Spirituality, and Interpretation
Posted in Dreams, Personal, Spirituality on May 28, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I want to offer my personal reflection of the dream that I posted. This interpretation is a combination of my own perspective in relation to that of my therapist. Being at a resort and noticing a sanctuary within the resort indicates an awareness of transcendence in the social dimension of my life. [...]
Children….
Posted in Children, Children and Poverty, Human Rights, Orphans on May 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I just read somewhere that there are approximately 400 million children in the world today that go to bed hungry every night. 35 million orphans in Africa and 65 million orphans in Asia. The number of orphans in the world are increasing because of AIDS. In Thailand, I believe, there are over 300,000 AIDS orphans. [...]
Dream, Spirituality, and the Primal
Posted in Dreams, Personal, Spirituality on May 26, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Dream may be a path that brings us to the depth of our being. It offers directions and a glance of the deep aspect of who we are. The following is the first dream that I noted and brought to my therapy session.
“My wife, myself and a couple of friends wandered to a Marriott resort. [...]
Children as Commercial Sex Workers in Thailand
Posted in Children, Children and Poverty, Human Rights on May 26, 2007 | 9 Comments »
In 1991 I took a group of seminary students to a remote Hmong village in Northern Thailand to build 50 toilets in 10 days. And we did. But during the entire period I was there there was a little girl by the name Ju. She was 10 and always kept observing our group peeking through [...]
Trafficking
Posted in Children, Children and Poverty, Human Rights on May 26, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Theresa Boar, head of the State Department’s office for international women’s issues, believes that “As many as 50,000 women and children are brought to the United States each year to be forced into prostitution, bonded sweatshop labor and domestic servitude.” Underground brothels with foreign sex workers exist in big cities such as Los Angeles, Seattle, [...]
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I couple of my esteemed colleagues published books that you may want to consider reading:
Jane Maynard, Transfiguring Loss: Julian of Norwich as a Guide for Survivors of Traumatic Grief. Pilgrim Press, 2006.
David Hogue, Remembering the Future, Imagining the Past: Story, Ritual, and the Human Brain. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2003.
Kathleen Greider, Much Madness Is Divinest Sense: Wisdom in Memoirs of Soul-Suffering. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2007.
Siroj Sorajjakool, Do Nothing: Inner Peace for Everyday Living: Reflections on Chuang Tzu's Philosophy: Templeton, 2009.
