by Ray Holland | Mar 18, 2024 | General
Looking back, knowing what I know now, I see how dissociation is an outcome of living in a traumatizing society. Often pressures start in our families with our parents and siblings with demands that we follow rules and roles without questioning them; and, in order to...
by Ray Holland | Mar 14, 2024 | General
Obviously, I’m a mental health therapist, and this may be a career quite different from yours. But, if I’m not mistaken, even if you have no understanding or interest in therapy, you too know the utter frustration of working with an organization that seems preordained...
by Ray Holland | Mar 14, 2024 | General
The crises on-the-ground related to substance abuse and AIDS was rapidly intensifying. Clients were frightened and dying in astounding numbers, getting incarcerated, treated as pariahs, selling off their possessions to get drugs, losing marriages and jobs. But that...
by Ray Holland | Mar 14, 2024 | General
Fast forward. Vermont far behind me, I became a supervisor in a drug and alcohol rehab program when crack cocaine and the AIDS epidemic were decimating communities of color in central Florida. As an undergraduate in Vermont, I had wanted to be a journalist, but the...
by Ray Holland | Mar 14, 2024 | General
If self-development and spiritual development are part of the same spectrum of consciousness and not simply antagonists then early damage to the former can cripple the emergence of the latter. Ken Wilbur, The Eye of Spirit Not long out of college, I happily returned...
by Ray Holland | Mar 14, 2024 | General
Maybe you noticed it too, the summer of 2020, when the CDC put out a serious warning about Ivermectin, a medication effective for lice (applied to the scalp) and for use with livestock as a deworming treatment (injected, commonly). “We’re not cows,” they said. But the...