4. somatic experiencing (SE). this is a modality for releasing trauma physically, which some people (e.g. victims of physical abuse) need desperately. i sprinkle a janky version of it i made up into my stuff
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5. coherence therapy. this is both a style of therapy and also a sort of metatherapy that encompasses and explains how other therapies work. i often use it as a conceptual framework and sometimes use some of its moves directly. great nerd bait
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6. LSD. i don't have a resource to link but i figured i might as well be up front about it. taking acid made me feel like i was alive again after having been dead for years. i chased that feeling towards many other good things, incl. the other things on this list
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7. MDMA. curiously enough i personally have gotten a lot less out of MDMA than LSD but also i've never taken it solo. this stuff is outrageously powerful, it makes no sense whatsoever that you can buy some for like $20 or whatever
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8. 's "manual of global wayfinding meditation": i have found the ideas in this document extremely helpful (i think there's a lot of overlap between "therapy" and "meditation") but i would not really recommend that newbies start here
meditationbook.page
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9. eye movement and desensitization reprocessing (EMDR). this is a modality for processing trauma. i have no experience with this and have no idea how it works but some friends of mine have reported good things
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10. co-counseling. i haven't experienced this but seems like a lot of overlap between what they call "discharging" and what you can get out of bio-emotive and/or somatic experiencing. been really helpful for me to read about this recently
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do you know RC / co-counseling? it calls what you're describing (laughing/shaking/crying) "discharge" & it's viewed as a central part of processing emotions
rc.org/publication/bo (website is awful but the practice is super interesting)
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11. feeding your demons. i also haven't experienced this but some friends of mine say it's helped them and uh it sort of spontaneously happened to me once when i did shrooms + acid. appears to be a kind of IFS inspired by chöd practice?
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i'd maybe add alexander technique here. it's less "therapy"-y than the other stuff on this list but it often has similar benefits i think
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ah and there is also the various energy work / body work / reiki etc modalities, which i have not personally explored but which i believe to be potentially very good, *given you can find the right person*
(i haven't seen anyone for this stuff bc i don't know how to vet them yet)
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yeah i'm more hesitant to recommend this sort of thing publicly for safety reasons, and sort of hopeful given warnings i've read from that you can sort of sidestep it until you can do it for yourself if necessary?
yeah makes sense / i think i agree. wanted to mention it here tho for completion's sake
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