Dr Gabriel Barsawme

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Pathways to self-discovery

  • Do the impossible - Pathways to Self-Discovery #5 Pathways to Self-Discovery #5 Do the impossible and see your life change Hey Reader, Thank you for opening this letter. I've always been a highly risk-averse person—at least, that's how I view myself. Lulled myself into a secure, cushioned life has been important to me all my life. At the same time, I've also been open to new experiences - to some extent. When I look back at my life, certain events, certain periods, have been life-shifting. All of them involve exposing myself to something...Read more
  • Pathways to Self-Discovery #4 Pathways to Self-Discovery #4 Transgenerational trauma: understanding how it transmits and what to do about it What is transgenerational trauma? My grandfather, Joseph, was born in the Southeast of Turkey (then Ottoman Empire) in 1912. He was the youngest of seven siblings. In 1914, under the guise of World War I, the Ottoman Empire decided to "cleanse" and "relocate" minority groups in several regions in Anatolia. My grandfather and his family lived in a village in the region of Mardin. The...Read more
  • Pathways to Self-Discovery #3 Pathways to Self-Discovery #1 Pause, identify, take action - three steps to regulate your nervous system Pause Today, I want to talk to you about one of the most important life skills you may learn: regulating your nervous system. In an earlier newsletter, I discussed the importance of healing trauma. The main reason for this is that trauma keeps us from fully engaging in and with life. What I didn't mention in that newsletter is the nervous system's role in trauma. Trauma activates your...Read more
  • Pathways to Self-Discovery #2 Pathways to Self-Discovery #1 Attachment theory and why it matters even when you're all grown "Life is an exploration from a secure base." - John Bowlby As a social worker, I meet with parents and their children every week. My job is to identify risk and protective factors in children's lives and suggest what they need to thrive. Protective and risk factors are evidence-based patterns in children's lives. We know that if there are too many risk factors, the child's development will be...Read more
  • Pathways to Self-Discovery #1 Pathways to Self-Discovery #1 The one thing you must deal with if you want to thrive in life and business Today, I want to talk to you about the importance of dealing with your trauma if you want to thrive in life. I've been working with clients and their traumas for a while, and I've been working on myself. If you read this and think that you have no trauma, think again. Even if you've had a relatively unscathed childhood and great support, we've all experienced minor traumas. Traumas are...Read more

Become a Self-Actualizer

28/02/2024

Insights from Maslow and Ephrem I’m a big lover of the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow.  I’m a big lover of him because of his belief about

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