Welcome to the Portland DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) Meetup Group. This is a group to find peer support for living daily with the complexities of DID. This includes those living with it and those who love and support someone with DID. The goal of this meetup group is to create a safe environment where we meet others like us so we won't feel so isolated and alone: to be completely accepted for who we are! This is not a therapy group. The focus is on peer support. We do not diagnose, confi …

Hello! We are exploring health from an evolutionary perspective. Hunter-gatherers have typically been strong, lean and healthy, living free of many of the degenerative diseases, physical ailments and mental disorders modern humans experience. Anthropological findings provide insight about ancestral ways of living we can incorporate in to our contemporary culture, such as real food; optimal sleep; sun exposure; low level, strengthening and sprinting movements; play; social connections; baby weari …

This group is designed to help people who are looking to share ideas and give support to those using DBT.

Typically for those involved in hostile divorce situations; Parental alienation is a social dynamic, generally occurring due to divorce or separation, when a child expresses unjustified hatred or unreasonably strong dislike of one parent, making access by the rejected parent difficult or impossible. These feelings may be influenced by negative comments by the other parent and by the characteristics, such as lack of empathy and warmth, of the rejected parent I have been working with Jill Egizii f …

Welcome to our website. DBSA Portland Eastside meets every Thursday at 7:00 p.m. We're an independent part of the national Depression Bipolar Support Alliance located in Chicago (www.dbsalliance.org.) We launched this website in 2009 so that people with a mood disorder could easily find our meeting on the internet. Today, we're pleased to provide information about other support meetings (see our calendar) in the Portland Metro area. There is a support meeting almost every day of the week and on …

Here you will have the opportunity to connect with like-minded people who are committed to heart centered living. Our goal is to provide you with new ideas, inspiration, tools and opportunities to come together in community. We are offering workshops, gatherings and discussions on a wide variety of topics for the mind, body and soul in a friendly and peaceful sanctuary where all are welcome. There is no fee to join this group.  Certain workshops will require a small fee to participate, but othe …

Do you long to manifest your hearts desire, attract your soulmate or live into your highest calling? Are you living with pain, fear, anxiety, depression, illness, addiction or negative feelings from which you'd love to be free? Have you suffered from abuse, neglect, assault, unemployment, divorce, or any other significant struggles of life? This group is a safe and beautiful space for your to address your specific issues and tap into the collective capacity to heal together. I will teach you the …

We are a small (limited to 12 or so attending at any one meeting so please watch the RSVP) group of mid to late-mid life women coming together every other week primarily for group discussion.  We are open-minded, open-hearted, progressive in our thinking. The intent of this group is to provide a space for women to share their accumulated wisdom, experiences, difficulties and laughter.  We can share our philosophies, psychological perspectives, our spiritual aspirations, and relationship hopes an …

Hello! My name is Deborah Orandon, and I am a mental health counselor in Portland Oregon and have been working with highly sensitive clients for many years in my movement & massage practices and now also in my counseling practice. (Please visit: http://www.selfawarenesscounseling.com/ to get to know me a bit better.) Discovering Elaine Aron’s Highly Sensitive Person work ( http://www.hsperson.com/index.html ) 15 years ago, and honoring my own sensitivity, was a turning point for me in being able …

Welcome! This group is for you if you are tired of checking your soul at the door when you walk into work. It may not seem like work is a place where your soul is welcome but whatever kind of work you do, your soul belongs with you. It is simply not sustainable to be separated from your source of vital energy for 40+ hours per week for any number of years. Some organizations are good or even great at supporting their employees well-being and some are not. I have found through my work that many …

**In the beginning phases of this group, as long as the group isn't too large, people with loved ones that are dealing with other personality disorders other than BPD are welcome to be involved with the group. If we get too many people, maybe someone else can start off a splinter group for other personality disorders.** I'd like to have a group that meets to help support each other through the difficulties of having a loved one (family or friend or significant other) with BPD (Borderline Persona …

Show Up For L.I.F.E. is about living intentionally, forever engaged with life, despite life trauma you may have experienced or are living through now. This group is for anyone who is looking for a safe, compassionate community that will support you with growing and thriving on your personal journey. Everyone needs a village, it is my hope that this will be a place to meet other like minded folks looking for authentic connection and a place to share our hopes, strengths, experiences. This meetup …

Qigong (chee-gong) is an ancient form of exercise with it’s origins in the Far East.  It is the father of both Chinese Medicine and martial arts. Qigong is a technique for gathering and circulating qi (aka, life force energy, chi, prana, ki) both within and around the body. By bringing together movement, intention, and breathing in a powerful way, Qigong builds strength and helps the body do what it wants to do - Be Healthy. Qigong has many benefits. Some of them include (excerted from Qigong Tr …

“Just when you think it can’t get any better, it does. That’s the law.” ~ Byron Katie The Work is a way of identifying and questioning the thoughts that cause all of the fear, violence, depression, frustration, and suffering in the world. Come join our qualified facilitators, other participants like you, and experience the happiness of undoing those thoughts through The Work and allow your mind to return to its true awakened, peaceful, and creative nature. People who do “The Work” commonly repor …

At Wellness for Women we discuss Informative Wellness topics for the body, mind and soul. Socialize with like minded women in a fun and safe environment! We will have Guest speakers: Licensed Massage therapists, Licensed Professional Counselor, Chiropractor, Naturopath, Acupuncturist, Esthetician and more… We talk about: Alternative healthcare: massage, reflexology, lymphatic drainage, craniosacal therapy, acupuncture. What is it and what can it do for you? Skin care: solutions for problem sk …

Our vision is to live in a world of wellness. The means by which this is achieved is by enabling people to fulfill their life purpose in a balanced approach with the utmost integrity and efficacy. In order to do so, people must be at their best, with out the distraction of mental, emotional, or physical disease. When this is realized people come together in unity to achieve miraculous things that induces enlightenment, community, and an increased spiritual vibration for the world. At Anahata Wis …

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is an acupressure based technique created to help release negative emotions stored in our energy system. The belief is that when things happen that we interpret as negative that thought creates an energy disruption and that disruption gets stored in our energy system affecting us in various ways (emotionally, mentally, physically &/or spiritually). So with this belief, EFT and other variations of meridian tapping are great tools to solve or dissolve blocks of al …

Breaking free from everything that holds us back from being whole, integrated & healed in our bodies, minds, souls and our relationships is why we're here!!:) We will heal ourselves & our relationships by Cleansing & Renewing on every level....spiritually, mentally, emotionally, physically, sexually & relationally. Dis-ease occurs when we are...... 1) Physically overloaded with toxic pathogens (ie. candida, bacterias, viruses, parasites, heavy metals, chemicals, fungus, endotoxins ect) 2) Ment …