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What are Other People For Anyway? How trauma effects our interpersonal relationships.
We repeat our unconscious trauma until we make it conscious. Often we continue to project the failures of our development onto life until...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Jun 7, 20221 min read
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How to Recognize Cults, Bad Therapists and Predatory Sales Tactics
Many people have asked how the NXIVM cult was able to recruit so many smart people. The answer lies in the thing that makes religion,...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Jun 6, 20221 min read
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Book Review for Therapists : The Sacred and Profane by Mircea Eliade
The Sacred and the Profane is a foundational work in the academic study of religion, comparative religions, and depth psychology....

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Jun 5, 20221 min read
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How do all the models of psychotherapy fit together? Jungian, Gestalt, IFS, DBT, CBT, etc.
There thousands of models of psychotherapy. It is easy to get confused about how they could be so many and how they are different. This...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Jun 2, 20221 min read
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Book Review Japanese Death Poems
The tradition of Japanese death poems is used to reflect on the nature of life and the scope of ones own life before dying. Japanese...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Jun 1, 20221 min read
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Book Review for Therapists: Please Understand Me II
Please Understand Me II is a highly influential book written about the #MBTI. The book examines how the #Myersbriggs can be used to...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 31, 20221 min read
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Book Review for Therapists: The Book of Symbols
The Book of symbols is a dictionary of symbols, metaphors and archetype. It is a beautiful therapy resource and coffee table book.

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 30, 20221 min read
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Book Review for Therapists: Loves Executioner by Irvin Yalom
Book Review of Loves Executioner by Irvin Yalom. Yalom literally wrote the book on group therapy and existential therapy. He is a...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 29, 20221 min read
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Mysticism, Therapy, and Spirituality
What is it that all of the worlds major religions share in common? How does this relate to psychotherapy and mental health? Is there a...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 28, 20221 min read
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What is the Body Brain? How psychological trauma is stored in the body.
When we are experiencing trauma our brain is in such an activated state that it is not able to record memories correctly. Traumatic...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 27, 20221 min read
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A New Kind of Group Therapy to Facilitate Analog Communication Among Young Adults
Covid 19 and the ensuing shut down has led young people taking 2 years off of social interactions during a formative time in development....

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 27, 20221 min read
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What is Family Counseling
Today’s families are under enormous pressure. Childhood is no longer a protected space for children to gradually adjust to realities of...

Becky Milstead LPC NCC
May 26, 20222 min read
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How do you Brainspot Patients With Severe Dissociation?
Wait! If you don't know what Brainspotting is, then watch this first! https://youtu.be/L-yiEeZsbvg How do you Brainspot patients with...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 25, 20221 min read
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Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 24, 20220 min read
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Book Review: The Games We Play by Eric Berne. What happened to transactional analysis?
There are few models of psychotherapy that have flared in popularity and waned as quickly as Transactional Analysis. Eric Berne...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 23, 20221 min read
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What Happens to the Eye During a Brainspotting Therapy Session?
Brainspotting is a revolutionary new therapy for trauma and ptsd. We use many modalities of therapy at Taproot Therapy Collective, but...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 22, 20221 min read
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What is the Body Brain? How Psychological Trauma is Stored in the Body.
When trauma is stored in the brain it is stored on a deep emotional level of the body brain. This sub cortical or "body brain" is...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 21, 20221 min read
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Aztec Philosophy by James Maffie; Book Review
Aztec Mythology is never something that I understood very well. Mesoamerican mythology represents a distinct and unique perspective on...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 20, 20221 min read
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Demystifying Jung
Jung was a complicated man. He was broad minded to the point that he dabbled in parapsychology and ESP. Jung outlined a type of new...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 19, 20221 min read
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Book Review The Origins and History of Consciousness; by Erich Neuman
Evo psych theorists area dime a dozen today, but who was the first one? I think there is a good case to be made that it might be Erich...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
May 17, 20221 min read
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