EDGE Psychotherapy

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01/24/2020

"Those who do well in group do well in life." -Lou Ormont

Dr. Ormont created the Center for Group Studies in NYC, a wonderful community where I have been in training for the last 6 years. I am bringing this work to Denver, and am now recruiting for a mixed-gender process group, Wednesday evenings from 6:30-8, at my office in Capitol Hill. For more information visit www.edgepsychotherapy.com.

This is a good group for therapists wanting to continue their own work, or for clients who would benefit from the opportunity to learn about how they show up in the here-and-now of a process group.

01/17/2020

Pema steps up for the vision of the Great Eastern Sun

Dear Shambhala Community- This is a letter that Ani Pema Chödrön sent recently to the Shambhala Board and the Acharyas and now wishes to share it with the community. Warmest best wishes, Glenna Olmsted, Executive Assistant to Pema Chödrön January 14, 2020 Dear Acharyas and Shambhala Boa

01/13/2020

A poem by Chögyam Trungpa.

Timely Rain

In the jungles of flaming ego,
May there be cool iceburg of bodhicitta.

On the racetrack of bureaucracy,
May there be the walk of the elephant.

May the sumptuous castle of arrogance
Be destroyed by vajra confidence.

In the garden of gentle sanity,
May you be bombarded by coconuts of wakefulness.

11/06/2019

“Indeed, the capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the profession. Though the public may believe that therapists guide patients systematically and sure-handedly through predictable stages of therapy to a foreknown goal, such is rarely the case: instead, as these stories bear witness, therapists frequently wobble, improvise, and grope for direction. The powerful temptation to achieve certainty through embracing an ideological school and a tight therapeutic system is treacherous: such belief may block the uncertain and spontaneous encounter necessary for effective therapy. This encounter, the very heart of psychotherapy, is a caring, deeply human meeting between two people, one (generally, but not always, the patient) more troubled than the other. Therapists have a dual role: they must both observe and participate in the lives of their patients. As observer, one must be sufficiently objective to provide necessary rudimentary guidance to the patient. As participant, one enters into the life of the patient and is affected and sometimes changed by the encounter.”
--- Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.

10/27/2019

What hurts you blesses you. -Rumi