Psychedelics and Psychotherapy: Which Medicine and Method Are Right For You?
My thoughts on psychedelic healing have evolved, thanks in large part to the Apprentice Training I’m taking with the Psychedelic Somatic...
Eric Bowers
Feb 9, 20238 min read
The Ultimate Purpose of Inner Healing
The ultimate purpose of inner healing is to make more space in your being for an expanded (or expanding) consciousness. When inner...
Eric Bowers
Nov 26, 20204 min read
Practising The Surrender
Stumble with grace And then stumble again Your destiny is patient The healing takes the time That it needs to take And no amount of force...
Eric Bowers
Jul 28, 20201 min read
The Difficult Journey of Healing Attachment Trauma
The journey of deep healing can be very challenging, especially if you are doing therapy that regresses you to early childhood states in...
Eric Bowers
Jun 19, 20248 min read
Selective Inhibition: Suspending Self-Management to Access The Body's Innate healing Mechanisms
All of us have had stressful or traumatic events that didn’t get processed through our nervous systems because we didn’t have the help we...
Eric Bowers
Nov 29, 20234 min read
When Dissociation Is The Solution
In the Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) model, there are two states of dissociation, state 3 and state 4. State 3...
Eric Bowers
Nov 29, 20232 min read
What Is Covid Trying To Tell Us?
I spent quite a lot of time last year researching the Covid vaccines, reading and listening to scientists and doctors on both sides,...
Eric Bowers
Feb 10, 20223 min read
What Does It Take To Meet In the Middle?
What Does it Take To Meet in the Middle? Over the years, I've spent a lot of time helping people meet in the middle and find...
Eric Bowers
Nov 4, 20212 min read
Welcome Anger: Boundaries, Breakthroughs, Movement, Manifestion
Anger can be a difficult energy to work with but also a very powerful one. At its worst, it ends in violence or very painful...
Eric Bowers
Aug 16, 20212 min read
It's Only Now
There is nothing Quite like Right Now Meeting you with my Undefended Heart There is no Future in Waiting Now is when I step right through...
Eric Bowers
Oct 1, 20201 min read
A Battle for My Body and Bringing My Boy Home
I’m back from Mexico. 5 nights of Ayahuasca. My goodness. After the first night, I didn’t think I would do all five. I’m so glad I stuck...
Eric Bowers
Mar 11, 20205 min read
A Long shot Romance
I have my mother's permission to publish this article. My 81-year-old mother is giddy. “I feel like a teenager,” she tells me through the...
Eric Bowers
Dec 26, 20195 min read
A Pause Changed My Relationship With My Father
I have my father’s blessing to publish this story. I’m with my father in his office in Ontario. I live in British Columbia, and it’s been...
Eric Bowers
Nov 27, 20197 min read
Dragons and Demons
Maybe our dragons and demons are waiting for us To love the fire Maybe our walls can come down now Are you ready, am I ready To meet you...
Eric Bowers
Nov 26, 20191 min read
Expanding Our Capacity To Love
What if we came to this world to expand our capacity to love? What if we had to forget where we came from in order to fulfill that quest,...
Eric Bowers
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Your Inner Leader
When building successful relationships, it can be very helpful to see yourself as a collection of different inner parts that developed in...
Eric Bowers
Oct 29, 20192 min read
Take It To The Trees
One of the most important things you can do to live a meaning and rewarding life filled with vitality is reclaim your emotions. When you...
Eric Bowers
Oct 29, 20192 min read
The Trail Of Love
On the trail of love Lost in the thick of it Which way is north I’m scrambling through jungles with eyes closed Searching, but don’t want...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Heart Warrior
Heart warrior, no weapons, no armour Will you venture out and meet me on the front lines Where the grass is on fire, with lies and with...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Going Down
Uncharted waters, let's leave the helm behind We're going under, we're going under Lower the periscope, cover the compass We're so lost...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20192 min read
You Never Know
Life comes on like a drunken tornado But we’re daredevil butterflies riding the storm What's your plan, what's your plan If you should...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
The Miracle Display
Open the door it's only terror knocking Don’t be afraid to embrace the hounds Polish their fangs with the end of your sleeve And cradle...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
Closer: An Adventure In Unconditional Love
Fall flat on your face There’s nothing like learning the hard way, sometimes But your soul is sitting there waiting Waiting for you to...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
What Does It Take To Heal?
Thanks to modern technology and a great deal of research, we know more and more about what it takes to heal our deepest wounds. We know...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20192 min read
Cultivate Connection Before Asking For Action
There are two types of requests in the practice of Nonviolent Communication: Action Requests and Connection Requests. Both are...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20192 min read
The Most Powerful Things You Can do to Build an Inspired Relationship
This Tip for the Road is my answer to the question: What are the most powerful things I can do to build an inspired relationship? I...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20195 min read
Admit To It, Too
It can be challenging to tell people that you don’t like a certain behaviour or action of theirs. Even with supportive intentions and...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20192 min read
Working Successfully Through Difficult Dialogues
This process is designed to build understanding and collaboration while working through important or difficult issues.
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20194 min read
Tips For Working Through Conflict
For me, the tips below have added a lot when using a structured process for conflict and also when I'm not using a structured process.
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20193 min read
Follow Your Breath Into Your Body
As I’ve written before, one of the crucial pieces of building successful relationships is increasing your capacity to feel. Increasing...
Eric Bowers
Oct 27, 20191 min read
What Is The Shadow
An important part of differentiation for adults involves uncovering and reclaiming the disowned parts that were not accepted or loved by...
Eric Bowers
Oct 16, 20193 min read
There's Beauty
Uphill and barefoot in the rain These are the slippery, innocent moments My best intentions are yours for the night They’re delicate but...
Eric Bowers
Oct 4, 20191 min read
Tips for Regulating Strong Emotions
Take the stress out of strong emotions without cutting off from them. When strong emotions are activated, they strain your nervous system...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20194 min read
The OA: An Allegory for Healing Trauma
I try to stay away from Netflix series because I don’t want to get hooked into them. An ongoing goal of mine is less screen time and more...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20195 min read
The Wounded Butterly
Risking the Light and Ongoing Transformation This article is written with They, Their, Them pronouns out of respect for those who don't...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20194 min read
The Fearful Fetus
A Life of Ever-Deepening Connection As an NVC Trainer and practitioner, I've explored many alternative models of healing that complement...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20195 min read
Get to Know Your False Ego and Take Back Your Life
What is the False Ego? Where does it come from? What is its purpose? Who would you be without it? Try this experiment: Choose your top...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20195 min read
Don't Just Feel Your Emotions
Love Your Emotions Isn't it astounding that feeling emotions is so fundamental and essential to our humanity and well being and yet few...
Eric Bowers
Oct 3, 20192 min read
A Healing Work Of Art
You likely won’t be surprised that many of my close friends are therapists. What might be surprising for you is how we sometimes...
Eric Bowers
Sep 29, 20197 min read
Talk About Conflict When You're Not In Conflict
Conflict is a normal and natural part of life. To varying degrees, it happens whenever two or more people consistently spend time...
Eric Bowers
Sep 12, 20196 min read
The Ultimate Romance
When most people think of romance, they think of flowers and chocolate, candlelight dinners and sunset walks, dancing, poetry, and...
Eric Bowers
Sep 1, 20195 min read
Resources For Building Successful Relationships
23. Resources for Building Successful Relationships Below are some of my favourite Books, Articles, and Videos related to building...
Eric Bowers
Aug 21, 20191 min read
Look Below The Behaviours
29. Look Below The Behaviours When your child behaves in ways that are challenging, it’s often because something is missing in the...
Eric Bowers
Aug 8, 20191 min read
All Good Things
All Good Things Did you find your voice yet? Was it right where you left it? Unaccepted once, but it’s growing on you now. Did you wake...
Eric Bowers
Feb 1, 20191 min read
