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A wonderful woman on our podcast describes what he

A wonderful woman on our podcast describes what helped her when she was feeling hopelessness, tired of trauma and desperate for change.

“Now I See A Person Institute did not judge me in my brokenness. When you realize you are worthy you seek good things and instead of accepting you ask and demand love and positive experiences.”

“Experiencing these comfortable connections let me see it for myself.”

With therapists led by process ethics she was able to create her own healing. Our team was there to support her but she was the creator of her own healing! There is not a model for change. Healing is created when someone genuinely listens and believes in the Other. The client is the expert in their wants, needs, and directions for change. This is a relational process where one feels safe, not judged and able to feel freedom.
Please listen to the podcast below where she shares a part of her journey from despair to worth. There is a ten second pause but it comes back so please be patient. Please listen and share to as many people as you can to nurture hope. https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-bpcsx-12c2927

Thank you from all at Now I See A Person Institute. #horseheal #horses #horse #horsetherapy #equine #collaboration #worth #therapy #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #family #familytherapist #therapy #socialjustice #relationships #suicideprevention

MY STORY TO WELLNESS: The importance of hopeful co

MY STORY TO WELLNESS: The importance of hopeful collaborative practices in mental health. An inspiring person shares their journey in the mental health system and the importance of experiencing hope. It is important for this speaker to share, “because when she was looking for other stories to relate to, they were very difficult to find. It was discouraging to not be able to find positive solutions”. Listen to what was helpful in her journey of healing from trauma. Please listen on: https://nisapi.podbean.com/e/the-importance-of-hopeful-collaborative-practices-in-mental-health-systems/ #horse #horses #horsesheal #therapy #nowiseeaperson #mentalhealthawareness #collaborativetherapy #postmoderntherapy #hope #familytherapist

During this last year our team at Now I See A Pers

During this last year our team at Now I See A Person Institute has focused deeply into the trauma of coercion and deficiency labels and treatment for those who suffer. These themes are not new and we’re introduced to me early in my career at HGI. For us at Now I See A Person Institute, almost four decades later, we are struck and concerned these narratives and events prevail,

During these decades of research and clinical work we have continued writing on Process Ethics or Extraordinarily Normal: Breaking Free from the Limits of Labels. This resurgence from this year came from our devotion to hear and honor the multitude of voices who feel their endeavors to find avenues to stop their suffering were events of significant trauma. Our clients repeatedly report the services they received accidentally created significant trauma that far outweighed the original trauma and reasons to search for alleviation. We are calling these interviews and research topics, Shedding the Limits of Labels: Ending Coercion and Oppression-Exploring Alternatives to Wellness. Listen to our podcast, it is a former participant’s voice on finding freedom. Now I See A Person Institute is dedicated to the ideas that all clients, regardless of symptoms, can heal, all families can be reunified, children and their families are able to socialize despite global constructs which infer disabilities. We further feel through our research that global constructs have the power to create, unfortunately and without purpose to do so, marginalized generations who see themselves as deficient and disabled. #horse #horsesheal #familytherapist #therapy #collaboration #suicideprevention #compassion #empathy #conversation #reflection #innerstrength #innerpeace #connection #wellness #heal #trauma #health

Hello! Part of the 3 tenants of process ethics are

Hello! Part of the 3 tenants of process ethics are, relational connectedness, full presence and sacred conversations. These are talked about in our podcasts. All refer to the conversational space, the utterances between the one that needs to be heard and the listener and the process of this priceless back and forth fluid narratives that leads to priceless self solutions which Dr Swim wrote about in 2001.

Relational connectedness refers to the degree to which clients and therapists engage with one another and how they organize and coordinate their interactions (conversational spaces). Relational connectedness reflects the propensity to embrace and understand the personal narratives of clients experiencing life burdens. (This is a living with-ness within their own lives and self solutions that can arise from conversations).

Full presence co-creates a relational process where a client maintains the free dom to tell his/her perspectives, memories, ideas, and thoughts, perhaps that were never allowed the conversational space to be spoken before. Through the act of hearing and talking, a relationship develops that honors and values the psychotherapeutic discourse. The intensity of the listening and hearing and the flow of the exchange of constructed meaning embraces and collaborates the development of integrity and “feeling fully present in the moment.

And sacred conversations …this is where the hope and solutions occur within the co-created conversations.

We believe that the therapist is in a sacred conversational place when one is in therapeutic conversation (Andersen, 1993). If we approach conversations with clients as inviolate exchanges, then we can invite relational connectedness and enact with full presence. We can appreciate the uniqueness, weight, meanings, and complexities of the clients’ situation where hope abounds and solutions are in a living process of co-creation.

Please listen to our podcast https://www.podbean.com/pi/pbblog-2igc2-37a621

#therapy #family #collaboration #conversation #horse #horsesheal #horses #horsesofinstagram #horselove #trauma #traumahealing #heal #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #mentalwellbeing #deconstruction

I missed the ISI but wish wonderful co-creations t

I missed the ISI but wish wonderful co-creations to move our field forward. Congratulations to all!

If I had the opportunity, I would have shared the voices of our clients below and our subsequent current mission.
The dis-diseasing of Mental Health 1991-Revisited in 2022. These utterances, words and ideas reflect labels and services to wellness that are often deficiency-led and oppressive, can take away ones self identity and self agency, create new and disabling traumas, create divisions between those that suffer and their families, peers, and their previous relationships, and provide what our clients described as a “war making” to wellness or recovery. Decades ago we wrote on this in Houston and we, as many continue to. Unfortunately we still are immersed in a world which often unintentionally marginalizes and victimizes people who suffer. Our research reflects, based on our client voices, that labels and deficiency interventions, unfortunately, can create a venue where our clients report they are/were more traumatized than their original events. Local and relational identities, needs, cultures, and uniqueness must override the dominant deficiencies discourse that has prevailed for decades. Our people, our world deserve to be seen and treated as unique people suffering. They yearn for novel experiences to wellness where they are not treated as a diagnosis. They say they do not accept this paradigm anymore. #horse #horses #horsesheal #horselove #therapy #family #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #love #wecare #listen #connection #mentalwellbeing #trauma #collaboration #healing #horsepower

Please help one of our volunteers raise necessary

Please help one of our volunteers raise necessary funds to keep Now I See A Person Institute deliver vital life saving services. Please see her request and the link to GoFundMe page below.

Their rent was doubled without notice.

Now I See A Person Institute is a nonprofit devoted to “Healing the Underserved from Trauma” in Los Angeles County.

They support the impoverished, the hopeless, and those considered untreatable on a ranch with loving horses. Their horses are adopted and provide hope to many children and families.

I would like to do all I can to raise funds to save their ranch so they can continue to do the evidence-based life-saving work.

To learn more about Now I See A Person Institute and how your donations can save lives visit www.nowiseeaperson.com. https://gofund.me/fdd1c4b4

Now I See A Person Institute is asking our contact

Now I See A Person Institute is asking our contacts to share our GOFUNDME campaign. Your donations will enable current and future clients the ability to transform when previous attempts were unfortunately unsuccessful. Our mission is to help people who suffer and their families to acquire new outcomes filled with strength and hope. Our team of therapists, nurturing horses, and the normalcy of a ranch environment provide a community of support while symptoms dissipate and new self-perceptions evolve. This is not office therapy and in such we lease a portion of a horse ranch, care for loving horses who were, themselves, previously discarded. Our wish is to obtain for Now I See A Person Institute the sustainability of a ten year lease or our own land, reimbursement for our talented and caring faculty and therapists, and continue to provide and expand our clinical and learning programs. We wish for these services not only for today but into the future. Our world and field is continuing to evolve to incorporate endeavors that are self tailored for each individual and not one for all treatment. To be added to our weekly podcasts and view our work visit www.nowiseeaperson.com. https://gofund.me/c5c65774

Seeing people through their authentic lens. Our cl

Seeing people through their authentic lens.
Our clients are usually given a diagnosis before coming to NISAPI. Diagnoses unfortunately can paint an alternative identity of deficiency, self-doubt, and of being incurable. It can leave the trauma and person hidden in the picture of treatment. We all know people search for a new self-identity and explanation of what happened after severe trauma and severe symptoms but this does not have to include a diagnostic landscape where the person can be lost or fighting for their identity. Diagnosis and its meanings are quite complex for those that suffer. As Harry Goolishian reflected decades ago, a world of pathology and deficiency is created within the diagnosis, therapy is then geared at a “diagnosis,” medicine is given for a diagnosis, and hospitalizations occur if these do not alleviate a diagnosis, and all these events are hard to overcome. Our clients yearn to be seen and heard. They do not wish to be reduced to a diagnosis or told they will have to adjust to being disabled. In this short podcast we explore previous and current ideas on etiology, epistemology, and ontology, Clients report their diagnosis dissolves, and hope increases when they become connected to their selves and their community rather than a diagnosis or a disease. We find that authentically embracing clients as honored guests who are suffering and in need of services that address their urgencies leads to relationships and dialogues that produce sustainable change, directed by the client and their desires, as well as the desires of their communities, including the ones they feel they were not aligned with (families, referral systems, judicial systems). Our clients report that losing their diagnosis gave them autonomy, self-agency, and freedom. Their stories of change always point to a time they took control of their mental wellness. #horse #horsesheal #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthmatters #familytherapist #therapy #collaboration #strength #suicideprevention

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