I woke up thinking about why I am a bird of a different feather psychotherapist...and Fritz Perls came to mind...then quickly issues about the soul, shamanism, Vija Lusebrink, Jung, bioenergetics and Ken Keyes. Of course, there's more and then there's practice and the witnessing.
(A boyfriend in the 70's just floated through there. He had proposed that we be co-therapists for couples. I asked about that. He said it's incredible if we're clear with each other. We are clear so we'd be.
I'm sure we would have been good at that, but I know I wasn't clear about several things. I was very clear about that).
I had the grand fortune to become a therapist before managed care and was lucky enough to have worked a good while before it. I also had the privilege of working before research began to hover over human lives like an emotionless swarm of drones.
In my mind, the clinical work was the lab. My clients and patients offered up their lives as proof. There was time to witness and so perpetual opportunities to know all there was to know
My training had to do with mending soul murder. I would dig carefully and tenderly, an archaeologist onto the grail itself and barely brushing. Then a covert shaman walked out of me to retrieve post-fragmentation bits and pieces. Many of my I thought pieces of the soul were splintered, held captive and even tortured, but they were still alive and worthy of rescue. As it turned out, a lot of us believed that although we spoke different languages about it.
