Dr Gabriel Barsawme

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Pathways to self-discovery

  • One practice that is as powerful or more than Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Pathways to Self-Discovery #10 Pathways to Self-Discovery #10 Hi friend, Thank you for opening my letter. It means a lot to me. This week, I'm mesmerized by a conversation that I listened to last week while running. Scott Barry Kaufman talked to Emily Seppälä on the Psychology Podcast where they discussed how breathing can regulate your nervous system. According to Seppälä, certain breathing techniques can be at least as effective as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to treat PTSD. In her own words: Breathing is one of the most...Read more
  • REWIRE SUMMIT Hi friend, Thank you for opening this. So I've been working on something special. For years I was an avoidant person who had normalized being in chronic stress. I didn't know how to get out of my own way to happiness and engaging in life fully. I'd come home after work and would zone out. I'd be there but not there. I'd long for weekends and dread the weeks. This was not because of the work I was doing. It was meaningful and important. Because I lacked the skills to regulate my emotions, my...Read more
  • Reparenting yourself - Pathways to Self-Discovery #9 Pathways to Self-Discovery #9 Hi friend, In my client work the past six months I've been thinking a lot about the concept of reparenting. If you've read my newsletter and followed me on X you will have discovered that I talk a lot about attachment theory. Attachment theory is one of the most well-studied and documented psychological theories that are out there. It was founded by John Bowlby and has ever since been developed by other researches. It recognizes that our formative years has a...Read more
  • Entrepreneurship and spirituality - Pathways to Self-Discovery #8 Pathways to Self-Discovery #8 Hi friend, Thank you for opening my letter. It means a lot. Today, I want to talk to you about the relationship between entrepreneurship and spirituality. Entrepreneurship is essentially about venturing out to test your ideas in the world. Part of the journey is usually creating and managing a business. Any ideas go. A carpentry business, a restaurant, an online business, writing a book, a marketing agency. It may or may not be innovative. As an entrepreneur, you...Read more
  • The answer lies in the longing - Pathways to Self-Discovery #7 Pathways to Self-Discovery #7 Hi friend, Thank you for opening my letter. It means a lot. I've been building my business for a while now. Before I had the idea for a business, I had a longing. I've always been a person longing for depth, intimate conversations, and introspection. I have never accepted the status quo in myself and in society around me but been a questioner. My recent conversation with my friend Nik Huno reminded me of much of the longing I had within. Holding space for another...Read more
  • Longing for home and belonging - Podcast is live! Hey Reader, Here are the links to the first podcast episode as promised. Do you long for home? What is home? Listen to my conversation with @NikHuno where we talk about: - Longing for home and belonging - The impact of childhood - Being present in the moment - Longing for community - The essence of identity Here are the links to the episode: Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/gabriel-bar-sawme/episodes/Longing-for-Home-and-Belonging-e2icohn Apple Podcast:...Read more
  • What training for my marathon is reminding me of - Pathways to Self-Discovery #6 Pathways to Self-Discovery #6 Hey Reader, Thank you for opening my letter. I'm in training mode currently as I am preparing to run the Stockholm Marathon on June 1st. This will be my fourth marathon. I ran my last one in 2019 in Scotland, just before the pandemic hit. Training for marathons has taught me a great deal about how to live life well. It's difficult to do, isn't it? Life is messy and we are constantly bombarded, implicitly or explicitly, by messages from our environment. We are...Read more
  • 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

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