by Evan Dwan | Jan 3, 2022 | News |
Numerous cross-cultural studies have shown that modern societies are afflicted by some of the highest rates of depression, schizophrenia, anxiety, and chronic loneliness in human history (Junger, 2016). As affluence rises so too does depression and suicide rates. What...
by Evan Dwan | Dec 19, 2021 | News |
Health can be understood as a state of optimal regulation and adaptive functioning of body, mind and relationships (Siegel, 2012). Health emerges from integration which is the linkage of differentiated parts of a system. Without integration, chaos and rigidity emerge....
by Evan Dwan | Jun 3, 2021 | News |
The convergence of crises in the world are symptoms of a deep malaise within our collective cultures. We have become habituated to a level of dysfunction that we come to think of as normal and that ‘this is just the way the world is’. Humans are by nature selfish,...
by Evan Dwan | May 19, 2021 | News |
Sue Gerhardt tells a story of a Patagonian culture in South America where women are treated like royalty when they are pregnant. They are awoken to the sound of beautiful music and entertained in a way that suits her tastes. In the same way that a sound tree produces...
by Evan Dwan | Jan 3, 2021 | News |
The autonomic nervous system learns through experience. This process begins before birth as we take in and respond to our environment. Adverse environments can have an adverse effect on this shaping process. Prenatal adversity can include maternal stress, poverty,...
