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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All veterans share a selfless commitment to serve Canada. On #RemembranceDay, we honour their service and sacrifice, pay tribute to those who gave their lives in duty, and remember those who never came home.
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There is no easy answer here but it's something calling for consideration as therapists. Can we be compassionate while also fostering genuine strength?
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On the other hand, scapegoating is the purveyor of dystopia because it is always based on a lie. The lie of moral certainty.
𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑒 𝑤𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒.
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"It is as if we must satisfy a blood lust when we experience the unfortunate vagaries of fate, by either shaming ourselves or externalizing that shame and scapegoating others. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑜𝑛𝑒, though, must always pay for misfortune. This search for a scapegoat to “take the fall”
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for the comedown we have experienced in suffering reflects a non‑acceptance of the tragic aspects of life, such as chronic disappointments, losses, and death, on their own terms."
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"But I can tell you that the right help, offered at the right moment by someone who genuinely wants to understand you, can change the direction of a life. I know that not only from research, but because it happened to me."
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"The psyche does not change because it is told to. It changes because it is accompanied - through time, across time, and sometimes, against time."
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Now, more than ever in our lifetimes, patients coming to therapy or to the medical system are arriving with limited capacity. Restorative approaches, utilizing breath and movement, meet initial needs.
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What happens when when we study individual molecules without considering the intelligence of the whole system.
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See this Instagram post by @unityhealthto instagram.com/reel/DfFbx8LTp…
A NICU halloween in Toronto.
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"For me the gentle hands of Olina represent the attempts of human beings, however ignorant, ruined and doomed, to love in whichever way they can, thereby enlarging their sympathies and generosities."
William T. Vollman's afterword in:
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Harry J Zeit MD retweeted
'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?
#TraumaInformed #Empathy #Understanding #Healing #Poetry #SpokenWord #MentalHealthAwareness #MentalHealth #trauma #Traumality #traumahealing
"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
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"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…
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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
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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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