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Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: Which Medicine and Method Are Right For You?

My thoughts on psychedelic healing have evolved, thanks in large part to the Apprentice Training I’m taking with the Psychedelic Somatic...

Eric Bowers

Feb 9, 20238 min read

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The Ultimate Purpose of Inner Healing

The ultimate purpose of inner healing is to make more space in your being for an expanded (or expanding) consciousness. When inner...

Eric Bowers

Nov 26, 20204 min read

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Practising The Surrender

Stumble with grace And then stumble again Your destiny is patient The healing takes the time That it needs to take And no amount of force...

Eric Bowers

Jul 28, 20201 min read

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The Difficult Journey of Healing Attachment Trauma

The journey of deep healing can be very challenging, especially if you are doing therapy that regresses you to early childhood states in...

Eric Bowers

Jun 19, 20248 min read

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Selective Inhibition: Suspending Self-Management to Access The Body's Innate healing Mechanisms

All of us have had stressful or traumatic events that didn’t get processed through our nervous systems because we didn’t have the help we...

Eric Bowers

Nov 29, 20234 min read

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When Dissociation Is The Solution

In the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) model, there are two states of dissociation, state 3 and state 4. State 3...

Eric Bowers

Nov 29, 20232 min read

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What Is Covid Trying To Tell Us?

I spent quite a lot of time last year researching the Covid vaccines, reading and listening to scientists and doctors on both sides,...

Eric Bowers

Feb 10, 20223 min read

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What Does It Take To Meet In the Middle?

What Does it Take To Meet in the Middle? Over the years, I've spent a lot of time helping people meet in the middle and find...

Eric Bowers

Nov 4, 20212 min read

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Welcome Anger: Boundaries, Breakthroughs, Movement, Manifestion

Anger can be a difficult energy to work with but also a very powerful one. At its worst, it ends in violence or very painful...

Eric Bowers

Aug 16, 20212 min read

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It's Only Now

There is nothing Quite like Right Now Meeting you with my Undefended Heart There is no Future in Waiting Now is when I step right through...

Eric Bowers

Oct 1, 20201 min read

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A Battle for My Body and Bringing My Boy Home

I’m back from Mexico. 5 nights of Ayahuasca. My goodness. After the first night, I didn’t think I would do all five. I’m so glad I stuck...

Eric Bowers

Mar 11, 20205 min read

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A Long shot Romance

I have my mother's permission to publish this article. My 81-year-old mother is giddy. “I feel like a teenager,” she tells me through the...

Eric Bowers

Dec 26, 20195 min read

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A Pause Changed My Relationship With My Father

I have my father’s blessing to publish this story. I’m with my father in his office in Ontario. I live in British Columbia, and it’s been...

Eric Bowers

Nov 27, 20197 min read

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Dragons and Demons

Maybe our dragons and demons are waiting for us To love the fire Maybe our walls can come down now Are you ready, am I ready To meet you...

Eric Bowers

Nov 26, 20191 min read

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Expanding Our Capacity To Love

What if we came to this world to expand our capacity to love? What if we had to forget where we came from in order to fulfill that quest,...

Eric Bowers

Oct 29, 20192 min read

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Your Inner Leader

When building successful relationships, it can be very helpful to see yourself as a collection of different inner parts that developed in...

Eric Bowers

Oct 29, 20192 min read

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Take It To The Trees

One of the most important things you can do to live a meaning and rewarding life filled with vitality is reclaim your emotions. When you...

Eric Bowers

Oct 29, 20192 min read

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The Trail Of Love

On the trail of love Lost in the thick of it Which way is north I’m scrambling through jungles with eyes closed Searching, but don’t want...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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Heart Warrior

Heart warrior, no weapons, no armour Will you venture out and meet me on the front lines Where the grass is on fire, with lies and with...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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Going Down

Uncharted waters, let's leave the helm behind We're going under, we're going under Lower the periscope, cover the compass We're so lost...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20192 min read

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You Never Know

Life comes on like a drunken tornado But we’re daredevil butterflies riding the storm What's your plan, what's your plan If you should...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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The Miracle Display

Open the door it's only terror knocking Don’t be afraid to embrace the hounds Polish their fangs with the end of your sleeve And cradle...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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Closer: An Adventure In Unconditional Love

Fall flat on your face There’s nothing like learning the hard way, sometimes But your soul is sitting there waiting Waiting for you to...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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What Does It Take To Heal?

Thanks to modern technology and a great deal of research, we know more and more about what it takes to heal our deepest wounds. We know...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20192 min read

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Cultivate Connection Before Asking For Action

There are two types of requests in the practice of Nonviolent Communication: Action Requests and Connection Requests. Both are...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20192 min read

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The Most Powerful Things You Can do to Build an Inspired Relationship

This Tip for the Road is my answer to the question: What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20195 min read

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Admit To It, Too

It can be challenging to tell people that you don’t like a certain behaviour or action of theirs. Even with supportive intentions and...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20192 min read

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Working Successfully Through Difficult Dialogues

This process is designed to build understanding and collaboration while working through important or difficult issues.

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20194 min read

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Tips For Working Through Conflict

For me, the tips below have added a lot when using a structured process for conflict and also when I'm not using a structured process.

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20193 min read

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Follow Your Breath Into Your Body

As I’ve written before, one of the crucial pieces of building successful relationships is increasing your capacity to feel. Increasing...

Eric Bowers

Oct 27, 20191 min read

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What Is The Shadow

An important part of differentiation for adults involves uncovering and reclaiming the disowned parts that were not accepted or loved by...

Eric Bowers

Oct 16, 20193 min read

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There's Beauty

Uphill and barefoot in the rain These are the slippery, innocent moments My best intentions are yours for the night They’re delicate but...

Eric Bowers

Oct 4, 20191 min read

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Tips for Regulating Strong Emotions

Take the stress out of strong emotions without cutting off from them. When strong emotions are activated, they strain your nervous system...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20194 min read

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The OA: An Allegory for Healing Trauma

I try to stay away from Netflix series because I don’t want to get hooked into them. An ongoing goal of mine is less screen time and more...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20195 min read

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The Wounded Butterly

Risking the Light and Ongoing Transformation This article is written with They, Their, Them pronouns out of respect for those who don't...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20194 min read

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The Fearful Fetus

A Life of Ever-Deepening Connection As an NVC Trainer and practitioner, I've explored many alternative models of healing that complement...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20195 min read

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Get to Know Your False Ego and Take Back Your Life

What is the False Ego? Where does it come from? What is its purpose? Who would you be without it? Try this experiment: Choose your top...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20195 min read

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Don't Just Feel Your Emotions

Love Your Emotions Isn't it astounding that feeling emotions is so fundamental and essential to our humanity and well being and yet few...

Eric Bowers

Oct 3, 20192 min read

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A Healing Work Of Art

You likely won’t be surprised that many of my close friends are therapists. What might be surprising for you is how we sometimes...

Eric Bowers

Sep 29, 20197 min read

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Talk About Conflict When You're Not In Conflict

Conflict is a normal and natural part of life. To varying degrees, it happens whenever two or more people consistently spend time...

Eric Bowers

Sep 12, 20196 min read

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The Ultimate Romance

When most people think of romance, they think of flowers and chocolate, candlelight dinners and sunset walks, dancing, poetry, and...

Eric Bowers

Sep 1, 20195 min read

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Resources For Building Successful Relationships

23. Resources for Building Successful Relationships Below are some of my favourite Books, Articles, and Videos related to building...

Eric Bowers

Aug 21, 20191 min read

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Look Below The Behaviours

29. Look Below The Behaviours When your child behaves in ways that are challenging, it’s often because something is missing in the...

Eric Bowers

Aug 8, 20191 min read

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All Good Things

All Good Things Did you find your voice yet? Was it right where you left it? Unaccepted once, but it’s growing on you now. Did you wake...

Eric Bowers

Feb 1, 20191 min read

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PSIP

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”

~ C.G. Jung

This garden needs water

and dark soil

Roll up sleeves, bend at the knees

I’ve been saving these seeds

to plant among weeds

Because the fruit might be

too much to bear

Hand me my broken shovel

and rusty pail

~ Eric Bowers

Read the full poem here.