by Erick | Oct 22, 2018 | Iphelia
It’s a popular notion: If we focus on our intentions we can create our lives to be exactly what we want them to be. And it is true that intentions are powerful. They are the background music of everything we do. When we have set good intentions and given them their...
by Erick | Sep 27, 2018 | Iphelia
It’s been almost 10 years since the idea for Iphelia bubbled up. I had been facing a major crisis within myself and in my life and wrote an angry rant in my journal, desperately trying to validate my feelings. In that writing, I had asserted myself and pushed back...
by Erick | Aug 17, 2018 | Iphelia
“Where lowland is, that’s where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.” —Rumi I love the season of Fall. I think it is because wherever I look it speaks to my subconscious mind through the language of color and imagery. In a fittingly dramatic and beautiful...
by Erick | Jun 26, 2018 | Iphelia
We have received a lot of positive feedback from our readers and other therapists about the usefulness of the Interactive Empathy Knows Glossary (iEKG). We plan to continue to develop this tool as a freely accessible resource for all and would love your help too. If...
by Erick | Apr 25, 2018 | Iphelia
We live in very troubling times. The most troubled of times. People are more emotionally repressed, feeling avoidant, and addicted than in any other time in history. The advents of industrialization, exponential technological advancement, and globalization have given...
by Erick | Mar 18, 2018 | Iphelia
Last month Kelly Burch, a writer for HealthyWay Media, reached out to see if I would contribute to a piece on the practice of sage cleansing—also known as smudging. It was a great opportunity to link Iphelia’s message of feeling our feelings and tending to our inner...
