Wisdom of Psychosis
Trauma therapist. Founder of Terrapy. Author of Wisdom of Psychosis. I bridge psychiatry and earth-based healing — guiding people find wisdom in altered states, not just symptoms to suppress. Healing beyond labels 🌿 with heart, humbleness, and hope.
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Schizophrenia: The word Japan let go of! (opens the original)
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Note: This post tells the story of how Japan renamed ‘schizophrenia’ — who started it, what changed, and what a new word could and couldn’t do. You’ll meet the families who wrote a letter, the psychiatrists who listened, and a small fishing town in Hokkaido where people with voices hold a yearly contest about their hallucinations. And at the end, an open invitation to anyone in Japan working with this.Last week I wrote about salience — the yellow highlighter in the brain, and a world now built t
Global Salience Syndrome: Are We All Psychotic Now? (opens the original)
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Note: This post explores why things seem to follow you — on your phone, in your thoughts, even in your dreams — and what that has to do with psychosis. You’ll find a simple explanation of salience (what makes meaning), Jim van Os’s proposal to rename schizophrenia, and why an entire culture now lives in what psychiatry once called madness. For paid members I added how the witness, mantra and yogic practice help you loosen the grip, with five practices to start today. Let’s go!Have you ever spoke
Signup is now open for: Wisdom of Psychosis online summit 2026 🎉 (opens the original)
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In October, something I’ve been building quietly finally opens its doors. And it brings together a conversation I’ve wanted to have for a long time.A summit. 🎉🎉🎉Four days, free, online.Wisdom of Psychosis began as a book. This summit is its celebration — and an invitation to bring different worlds into conversation around altered states, consciousness, crisis and transformation. Over four days, we gather wit
What If Fifty Years of Not Finding the Answer ís the Answer? (opens the original)
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Every so often I read something that doesn’t simply add another piece to the puzzle—it gently suggests that we may have been looking at the puzzle itself in the wrong way! This is gonna be SO interesting, here me out.This week, Dutch psychiatrist and professor Jim van Os again inspired me by pointing something out that’s huge. He shared his reflections on a newly published international perspective paper in the Spanish Journal of Psychiatry and Mental Health, in which twenty internationally reco
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