Exploring the Meaning and Purpose of Tattooing By Sheldon Shalley, LCSW As I left a recent case conference with colleagues following a brief discussion about the possible meanings of a client’s tattoos, I see in my mind’s eye the body with hundreds of acupuncture points running along the meridians weaving together an energetic web that

“Symbols are everywhere, and everything that you experience mirrors a part of you . . . “ The Four Insights, Alberto Villoldo Recently I was in a case conference where a colleague expressed a growing frustration and anger toward a client who after 10 years of therapy had not made any significant movement or change.

Doom, Gloom and the Birth Process By Sheldon Shalley Recently as I sat with a group of friends, listening to them provide their assessment of the current political, healthcare and world situation, I was struck by how the language of hopelessness, doom, gloom, pending disaster and a slide into socialism permeated the discussion.

“In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.” Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Over the past twenty years there has been a growing interest in Shamanism and energy medicines as avenues for healing. In Part 1 of “Projections as Doorway for Healing” I suggest that many