OTHERSIDE HEALTH

ANCHOR DRILL

[AREAS] Grief Bereavement [DOMAINS] Grounding Stabilization [APPLICATION] In-the-moment wave of grief [CLINICAL ROOTS] Somatic Grounding Sensory Orientation Polyvagal Theory [OBJECTIVE] When grief blindsides you, it can feel like being pulled under – by a memory, a smell, a flash of what’s gone. When you’re about to check out or

VISUAL LITERACY

How to “read” images — and why that skill boosts mental health literacy

SYMBOLIC SPLICING

A no-talk method for turning felt experience into film — without disclosure.

NO-TALK THERAPY

Some people can’t heal by talking — and don’t need to.

MAKING AND MOURNING

When someone dies in prison, grief has nowhere 'official' to go.

TATTOO THERAPY

"Why get therapy when I can just get a tattoo?" More and more research suggests that tattoos hold a therapeutic significance. As a trauma therapist and prison health researcher whose work, in part, maps the differences and similarities in emotional and physical 'healing arcs', this makes