Home-Based Recovery of Mental Health, Inc.
The Windhorse Journal’s mission is to inspire compassionate approaches to recovering sanity.
We do this by creating an evolving forum dedicated to exploring contemplative psychotherapy and the creation of therapeutic environments for the wellbeing of all persons involved. We envision this to be a rich dialogue among people with lived experience, family members, psychology professionals, and anyone interested in whole person-mental health and the diverse expressions of human sanity.
The following podcast is distilled from an open discussion among the members of the Windhorse Legacy Project research group. The Legacy Project is sponsored by the Windhorse Guild, a nonprofit organization in Boulder, CO. The Project is dedicated to protecting and preserving our heritage of 40 years of Windhorse teaching, writing, and clinical experience; and to sharing this accumulating wisdom with the international Windhorse community and all interested persons. [Read more…]
In mid-2003, I was asked by the editors of an Italian psychiatric journal, NOOS: Aggiornamenti In Psichiatria, to write a paper on a Windhorse approach to early intervention for severe mental disorders. The editors had read the first edition of Edward Podvoll’s book then-titled The Seduction of Madness (1990) which in Italian was La Seduzione Della Passia. This request coincided with Dr. Podvoll’s final year with us in Boulder, CO before his death on December 7, 2003. Knowing something of the demanding time and energy that is required to write such a paper, I hesitated. [Read more…]
Windhorse is our innate ability to uplift ourselves and our environment by giving rise to a positive energy that is both relaxed and disciplined. Since 1981 Windhorse Community Services has integrated this understanding with modern, conventional therapies, meditation and contemplative traditions in the development of at-home, whole-person mental health recovery.