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Care in the Time of Corona
A growing list of free resources to help us orient towards self-care and community-care at this transformative moment.
The Sensitivity Cycle and Nourishment Barriers
“In our early lives we all develop strategies in order to protect ourselves from a harsh world. To do this, we create maps that help us navigate our life experiences. These maps tell us what is safe and what is not, what is pleasurable and what is painful. They help us maximize nourishment in our environment and also help us curb any perceivable threats.”
How I Divested from the Medical Model of Mental Health
“Human nervous systems don’t enjoy exploitation, injustice and powerlessness. What we call mental illness can instead be understood as a pattern of responses to adverse experiences with power and threats to our perception of safety, both at a systemic and interpersonal level.”
Inner Resilience: Back to Our True Nature with Dr. Gabor Maté
Visionary physician Dr. Gabor Maté explores the deepest psychological, emotional and social forces leading to our society’s poor health and unhappiness. He says we have the capacity to heal both ourselves and the planet by reconnecting with our true nature as empathic, nurturing, social beings.