January 2014 – Shrinkrap – Psychology Blog

The Great Mother Aya

I chose to do an ayahuasca ceremony last week in an effort to reach under my ego and to connect with something greater than

31 Jan

One of the prolems with new-agey self help literature (which I must admit I have read a lot of in order to see why they sell

24 Jan

There were times at University that were truly inspiring, not many mind you but when they occurred, they were pivotal. Some

22 Jan

As a society, I find we generally label and diagnose feverishly in an effort to understand our world. Everyone is allergic to

20 Jan

Something knocked in my soul, fever or forgotten wings, and I made my own way, deciphering, that fire, and I wrote the first,

19 Jan

I’m just gonna let this one roll without any dressing… Au naturel. I have been “up against it” for the last two

17 Jan

“There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own

17 Jan

“It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird, but how could it learn to fly by remaining an egg?” C.S. Lewis

15 Jan

Sunday afternoons are sacred to me, I like spending them on my own. Today, without any week weary artifice, I watched the

12 Jan

Today’s selection is from Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence by Daniel Goleman. The oft-cited 10,000-hour rule,

12 Jan