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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,…

Restlessness: The Call Beneath the Noise

There are moments when your mind races to understand, grasping for clarity, for a sense of control. Meanwhile, your heart quietly longs for peace. This restlessness isn’t a flaw; it’s a signal. It’s the soul’s way of saying that something deeper is trying to align.

Walking a Two Eyed Approach: Silence and Guidance in Healing

I remember one session where I had to break therapy training that says “do not direct”, meaning to avoid leading, interpreting, or offering solutions. This is the model promoted by modern day clinical therapy, that the therapist provides empathy, authenticity, and unconditional positive regard, allowing the client’s own inner resources…

Ask the Authenticity Question. Instead of “What will please others?” or “What is safest?” ask: “Which choice brings me closer to my truest self?”

Why It Is So Hard to Make Decisions

There’s a quiet ache that many of us carry, such as the struggle of not knowing which way to turn. We sit with decisions, big and small, and feel the weight of them pressing into our chest. Do I take this job or that one? Do I stay in this…

Author: Wallace Murray

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

Restlessness: The Call Beneath the Noise

Walking a Two Eyed Approach: Silence and Guidance in Healing

Why It Is So Hard to Make Decisions

What Silence Knows: The Healing That Happens When We Stop Talking

The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection: Why Relational Healing Matters

Naming Body Sensations: A Simple Practice for Stress and Emotional Regulation

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