Something that does not feel like yours

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There are moods that arrive out of nowhere and do not match your life. A heaviness that settles in a particular room of your house. A habit or a craving or a temper that feels like it belongs to someone else wearing your body. Exhaustion that sleep does not touch. A voice in your head that is harsher than any voice you would use on a friend.

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Most of the time these things have ordinary explanations, and I will say so if I think that is the case. Sometimes they do not.

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What is compassionate depossession?

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Sometimes a person dies and does not fully leave. They are confused, or frightened, or attached to a place or a person, and they stay close to the living because that is where the warmth is. They are not demons. They are people, and they are usually lost.

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Compassionate depossession is the work of finding out whether anything like that is present, speaking with it, understanding what it needs, and helping it go where it belongs. The name matters. Nothing is fought, banished, or forced out. It is escorted, with respect, and it goes willingly once it understands there is somewhere better to be.

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The Session

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We meet over Zoom for two hours. We talk first, about what has been happening and how long it has been going on and what you have already tried. Then I work, and you rest. You do not need to journey, visualize, or do anything at all. Afterward we talk again about what I found and what I did.

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There is very little drama in it. If you are expecting anything cinematic, this will disappoint you. The usual report afterward is that the room feels bigger and the tiredness lifts.

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What you might be worried about

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You do not need to believe in any of this for it to work.

 

Skepticism is welcome and it does not interfere. You will not be told you are possessed. If nothing is there, I will tell you nothing is there, and we will spend the time on what is actually going on instead.

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Nothing that happens is done against your will. I do not remove anything from you without explaining what I have found first.

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This is not therapy and it is not medical care. If what you are describing sounds like something a doctor or a therapist should see, I will say so directly.

 

Many of my clients do both, and that is a good thing.

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You do not have to relive anything. You are not required to tell me the worst thing that ever happened to you in order for this to work.

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What I will and will not do

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I will tell you honestly what I found, including when the answer is nothing. I will treat whatever is present as a person deserving of care.

 

I will follow up with you afterward.

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I will not diagnose you. I will not tell you that you have been cursed in order to sell you a second session. I will not work on someone who has not asked for it themselves.

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Booking

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Sessions run two hours over Zoom, with a twenty four hour lead time. $225.

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Not Everything Unseen Is Imaginary