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Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing

Rachel Mann PhD

Jan 28, 2019
5 min

Why Am I Doing this Again??! Some Insight into the Spiral of Healing

Have you done a lot of therapy and personal growth work—perhaps years or even decades—and one day, you realize that what you thought was healed or resolved is still active in some way? Or some aspect of it resurfaces? Maybe because some outer event seems to reactivate it? I have heard this lament from friends, clients and students over many years: “I thought I had resolved this! Why do I have to do it again? I’m so tired of this!” I have been in the same boat myself. Starin

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Rachel Mann PhD

Jun 6, 2018
8 min

Heal your Wounds and the Wounds of the World

About 2 years after 9/11, I had a vision of billions of people flooding the streets in every corner of the world demanding an end to violence and an end to war. It was, therefore, amazing to me that I saw the beginnings of this movement in my country during the March for our Lives rally on March 24. While the focus was on gun violence, it was one step towards looking at the bigger picture. It was also inspiring to me to see so many children and young people starting a movem

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Rachel Mann PhD

Sep 9, 2017
6 min

No Time Like Now to Heal

Current events in 2017 bring me back to the day after 9/11 when I sat in a packed concert hall at the University of Virginia. The administration had set up an open mike event where all members of the campus to share their thoughts and feelings about what had happened. I, like many others, stepped onto stage to speak about my grief and to call for everyone to seek healing not only of the wounds incurred by the previous day’s events, but of their own personal wounds from betr

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