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When the Body Carries What the Mind Cannot Name: Inherited Stress, Epigenetics, and the Practice of Calm

There are moments in therapy when someone says something that lands with unusual force in the room. They say, “I do not know why I am always bracing.” Not anxious about one thing in particular. Not panicked in any dramatic way. Just bracing. Bracing for conflict. Bracing for disappointment. Bracing…

Why the Iranian Uprising Is So Important for Our Collective Traumas

There are moments in history that are not “over there.” They cross borders the way weather does, and you feel them in your body before you can name them. Something tightens, something wakes up, something old and unfinished inside us stirs. Iran feels like that right now: not because the…

What Is Urban Shamanism?

By Wallace Murray
January 29, 2026
Ancestral Healing, Psychedelics, Spirituality
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In many traditional societies, the shaman is not primarily a “mystic” in the modern, romantic sense. The shaman is a community role: a person entrusted by training, lineage, calling, and accountability to help people stay in relationship with the unseen forces that shape life. That includes the land, the ancestors,…

The Gift of Suffering Is Acceptance

There’s a reason so many of us spend years trying to outsmart suffering. We medicate it, spiritualize it, outrun it, rationalize it, and, when we can’t do any of those, we may try to bargain with it: Just give me one more week of calm. Just let this relationship settle.…

NORTH-The teachings of this direction

By Wallace Murray
December 17, 2025
Brain Health
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Here in the North, winter is not a metaphor. It is a season you can feel in your bones: the short days, the long nights, the kind of cold that makes you catch your breath when you step outside. And at the same time, it is a metaphor for the…

Loving What Is Mortal: Therapy for Grief, Letting Go, and Living Fully

Mary Oliver, in her poem In Blackwater Woods, offers this fierce and tender instruction for being human: To live in this world, you must be able to love what is mortal, hold it close as if your life depends on it, and when the time comes to let it go……

Life Is Not Always a Trauma Event: Rethinking Toxic Family Relationships and Holiday Family Stress

Every year as the holidays get closer, a familiar theme shows up in therapy sessions: “My family is so toxic.” “I just need to survive the visit.” “Being around my relatives sends me straight back into trauma.” The language of toxic family relationships, trauma, and nervous system collapse has become…

Working Together Means We Bring Up the Truth

By Wallace Murray
December 8, 2025
Brain Health
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Living in integrity isn’t just a nice idea. It is the felt experience of your inner world and your outer life actually lining up. In therapy with me, that alignment grows out of one thing: we bring up the truth. Not the polished, edited version you’ve learned to show the…

Intentions and Relationships in Psychedelic Journeys: Beyond Personal Healing

By Wallace Murray
December 4, 2025
Psychedelics
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Standing at the Threshold When people sit with me and talk about an upcoming psychedelic retreat, there is often a very particular light in their eyes: the look of someone standing at the edge of something that feels both terrifying and sacred. They say that they cannot keep living the…

An invitation for Ancestral Healing

An invitation for Ancestral Healing Across so many conversations these days such as in therapy, in communities of direct action, in spiritual spaces, I witness one quiet truth that keeps resurfacing: Each of us is carrying cultural wounds our ancestors never had the space, safety, or support to resolve. Colonialism,…

Author: Wallace Murray

When the Body Carries What the Mind Cannot Name: Inherited Stress, Epigenetics, and the Practice of Calm

Why the Iranian Uprising Is So Important for Our Collective Traumas

The Gift of Suffering Is Acceptance

NORTH-The teachings of this direction

Loving What Is Mortal: Therapy for Grief, Letting Go, and Living Fully

Life Is Not Always a Trauma Event: Rethinking Toxic Family Relationships and Holiday Family Stress

Working Together Means We Bring Up the Truth

Intentions and Relationships in Psychedelic Journeys: Beyond Personal Healing

An invitation for Ancestral Healing

When the Body Carries What the Mind Cannot Name: Inherited Stress, Epigenetics, and the Practice of Calm

Why the Iranian Uprising Is So Important for Our Collective Traumas

What Is Urban Shamanism?

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