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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) develops in individuals who have experienced some type of trauma in their lives. By trauma, we mean a shocking or dangerous event that their minds were unable to process completely. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-post-traumat/

Psychosis is sensory perceptions and abnormal thinking experienced by an individual struggling with a schizophrenia spectrum or other psychotic-based disorder. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-psychosis-an/

For some, "depression" is a scary word that carries a connotation of weakness and shame. For others, it’s a warm blanket to withdraw into over and over again despite knowing the suffocating ramifications. We may be fearful of it, comfortable with it, or just sick of it. Whatever the case, depression on some level is probably part of the reason that brought us to Barn Life. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-depression-a/

Extreme and constant emotional states (i.e. mania, anger, fear, sorrow, grief, and worry) lead to serious mental health disorders (i.e. anxiety, depression, PTSD, etc). Anxiety, for example, is a normal reaction to stress and certain life situations. Getting rid of it or ignoring it is akin to shooting the messenger because you do not like the message. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-anxiety-is-a/

Our themes from this week forward are going to be a general overview of mental health diagnosis. However, we want to do it in a systematic order week by week. We will start with the root and move outward towards the branches. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-you-are-not-/

Something we want to encourage this week is to make room for the budding of unique esteem inside of every one of us. Rather than highlight inadequacies, failure, and character defects, let us instead look to the unique genius of the soul to lead the way. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/nurturing-the-unique-geni/

This week’s theme is going to focus on two things. First, we want to encourage everyone to take a 21 Day Challenge, which we will be explaining below. Second, we want to focus on how to reach people in a way that is memorable and that will follow them outside of Barn Life’s gates. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-21-day-c/

Our future selves are the grand total of everything we are and are doing in the present moment. And because this person is always one step ahead, it can be very difficult to show them the kindness and respect they deserve. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-our-future-s/

No person who comes to Barn Life to heal is a stranger to grief and loss. Whether it be a physical death or loss of relationships or even the feeling of disconnection, we all experience having to endure the process of grief. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-grief-and-lo/

Fear is part of the human experience and unanimously felt. However, our fears are also deeply personal and rooted in lived experiences. We believe there is a threat to be feared. We believe this whether the threat is physical, such as fear of physical pain or death, or emotional, such as fear of the pain of humiliation or abandonment. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-fear-and-sel/

Emerson reminds us that gratitude can become habitual. He heralds the role of gratitude in the perspective of advancement. I say we fall on a broad spectrum in regard to our gratitude. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme- gratitude/

It goes without saying that this year presents a difficult task for all of us. We all have questions about our place in this world. How does the vocation of healers come into contact with the evolving and unpredictable circumstances of a global pandemic? https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-shadow-and-v/

This week we explore the qualities of Athena. Namely, her hero-favoring nature and her commanding and tempered presence. With Athena, we accomplish our goals with spear-pointed precision and our vulnerabilities are well armored and protected. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-athena/

In Aphrodite, we see that she bathes and this produces newness. A better translation uses the word, refreshment. Interesting to think of love in terms of beauty rather than sacrifice or lust. If we experience love by the Greek sense of the word, we are in the refreshing presence of what is beautiful, what is felt, and what is embodied. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-aphrodite/

Someone once told me, I love Halloween because it’s the one day that it’s okay to not be myself. The eventual understanding was that the self this person actually chose to be was always an aspect of themselves. However, it was one they were afraid to show, or desired to embrace but felt unworthy of, or too insecure to fulfill. I wonder what costumes you wore? https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-shadows-and-/

This week, we will be spending time at the warm fire of Hestia. An odd and important figure of the Greek pantheon, Hestia is never found in sculptures of ancient Greece. She never conquers anyone or anything and always remains a virgin. Her symbols are the hearth or central fire of the home and the circle. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-hestia-and-t/

Rather than to think, to embrace, to transform, instead mothering may replace maturing to the point in which avoidance results. Simply put, mother is not the feminine. Conversely, the feminine is not the mother. To be without relationship, held, suspended is but one of the characteristics of the maturing feminine. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-great-mo/

A Hades-dominant inner father is one who remains outside of the experiences at hand. Hades prefers his underworld state. This can look to us like depression, social isolation, deep contemplation, avoidance, or even cleverness as a disguise for intimacy avoidance. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-hades/

Why is my anger not going away? Why do I sabotage my relationships? Why don’t I feel like I am ever enough? When questions like these arise, we can look to the archetypal figure of Poseidon for further understanding. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-poseidon/

If Zeus belongs to others we may never rightfully oversee the psychological life within us. To put it another way, if Zeus is not, in part, a way of thinking for ourselves because his energy is projected elsewhere, how can we begin to gain a vantage point above and engage in healthy, virtuous motives within our own lives? https://www.barnliferecovery.com/lightning-innocence-zeus-/

Fathers may rely heavily on the right answers to maintain their reign. Cronos/Saturn fathering often relies on the old wisdom to confront and swallow the new imagination. However, it may rob children of the chance to explore their own identities. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-archetypal-i/

From Freud to now, psychology has been dominated in large part by the reconciliation of childhood experiences with presenting problems in adult life. After all, is it not the inner child we hail supreme in psychotherapy? https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-introduction/

Sitting at the top of our head, the crown chakra exposes our capacity for a pure conscious relationship with a universal whole. Rather than the differentiated emotional and sensory worlds of the lower and bodily chakras, the crown hosts our blissful or transcendental selves. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-crown-ch/

Undoubtedly you have heard of the third eye chakra. In large part, we might say the third eye is the favored center of consciousness for us westerners. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-third-ey/

Associated with the color deep blue, the throat chakra is the source of our deep truths. When this chakra is blocked, communication between what is truly taking place in the mind and in the body is repressed. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-throat-c/

Known as the Anhata Chakra, the heart chakra resides at the space between the breasts at the center of the sternum. Associated with the energy of circulation, passion, and devotion, anhata holds the tension of opposites between mind and body, psyche and soma. https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-heart-ch/