HeyJaredLeslie’s Substack - Dreams Demystified
All about dreams, what they mean, why we have them and how to engage with them. For dream therapists and enthusiasts. Also, chapters for my next book, Disturbing Dreams, will be available to subscribers as they're written, plus new articles and webinars.
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The Dreams That Come After a Death (opens the original)
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When a loss hurts so much it haunts your dreams, these visitations from the dead can bring a surprising amount of support. Reflecting on my own experience, I’ve had two such visitations, and I can see that these were the very losses that affected me most deeply my life. These dreams of the dead were qualitatively different from most, so vivid they seemed real, like I could reach out and touch their presence. The first was a series of visits from my beloved cat Shadow, a majestic Maine Coone who
Dreams as doorways to life’s ultimate concerns (opens the original)
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Nobody Was Ever Argued Out of Their Pain (opens the original)
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“Have you ever had a discussion where the other person states a position that you know is factually wrong, but when you present all the counter-arguments, the relevant empirical data and the logical and rational explanations, it still does not work to dissuade the other party?”Leslie’s Substack - Dreams Demystified is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<form class="subscription-widget
What if it were different? (opens the original)
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There was never a doubt in Sarah’s mind that the terrible abuse happened. What we discovered in the course of our psychotherapy process was a path to freedom from suffering that came with imagining it differently. I have come to believe that the imagination is one of the most powerful healing tools we have. The capacity to richly re-imagine what might have been different is not the same as an escape from reality. In my decades of clinical psychotherapy practice, I have repeatedly found that the
The War Is Over: Retiring the Inner Critic (opens the original)
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