Winter Solstice: How to Celebrate the Return of Light
The winter solstice marks the longest night of the year. The winter solstice falls around December 21st in the Northern Hemisphere and June 21st in the Southern Hemisphere.
The winter solstice is a turning point...
The Importance of Self-Care
Self-care is about identifying your needs for your physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual well-being and taking deliberate action to meet those needs. Self-care includes taking the time to do activities that nourish you; it also...
Industrious/Over-focused and Expressive/Clinging Character Strategies
This article provides and understanding of the Industrious/Over-focused and Expressive/Clinging Character Strategies of Body-Centered psychotherapy.
Traditional Name: Rigid
Stage of Development: Phallic Stage (3.5 years to 6 years)
Function Truncated: Acceptance and Approval
Trauma Through:
rejection from the caregiver...
Burdened/Enduring Character Strategy
This article provides and understanding of the Burdened/Enduring Character Strategy of Body-Centered psychotherapy.
Traditional Name: The Masochist
Stage of Development: Anal Stage (18 months to 3 years)
Function Truncated: Responsibility and freedom
Trauma Through:
controlling caregiver
caregiver suppresses child's...
Dependant/Endearing and Self-Reliant/Independent Character Strategies
This article provides and understanding of the Dependant/Endearing and Self-Reliant/Independent Character Strategies of Body-Centered psychotherapy.
Traditional Name: Oral
Stage of Development: Oral (breastfeeding) stage (first 2 years of life).
Function Truncated: Support and self-support.
Trauma Through:
unpredictable feeding schedule
...
Tough/Generous and Charming/Manipulative Character Strategies
This article provides and understanding of the Tough/Generous and Charming/Manipulative Character Strategies of Body-Centered psychotherapy.
Traditional Name: Psychopath/Sociopath
Stage of Development: Phallic Stage (3.5 years to 6 years)
Function Truncated: Autonomy
Trauma Through:
overpowering caregiver
caregiver putting the child...
Sensitive/Withdrawn Character Strategy
This article provides and understanding of the Sensitive/Withdrawn Character Strategy of Body-Centered psychotherapy.
Traditional Name: Schizoid
Stage of Development: Tactile (sensory) stage (in the womb and the first few months of life).
Function Truncated: Belonging and fitting...
Character Strategies of Body-Centered Psychotherapy
“The entire world of past experience (is) embodied in the present in the form of character attitudes. A person's character is the fractional sum total of all past experiences.”
~Wilhelm Reich
Character Strategies form in the...
Build Better Relationships With These Four Simple Concepts
This article explains four concepts that are useful in building better relationships and developing more self-awareness in interpersonal interactions. While there are many more ways to build inter-personal skills these are the concepts that...
Controlling Emotions With Yoga
The science of anatomy states that emotions are a production of our brain and our mind. An emotion arises simply for the sake of survival. An emotion is a short-lived mental fluctuation, but when...
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