Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment and Healing Outreach Online

Welcome to Dawn Cove Abbey Empowerment Outreach - Online
Providing "Roadside Assistance" on Life's Healing Journeys
Since 1982 - Online since 1992
Re-visioning the Human Behaviour Spectrum
Site Overview/Map (Links) below

The Site Overview-Map is further down this page

From "One! The Journey hOMe",
the eBook by Klaas Tuinman MA © 2007-2019

It is not for sale; it is Free.
It's my way of Paying It Forward;
and is an ongoing work in progress,
like a "Never-Ending Story" book.

Dawn Cove Abbey
"Roadside Assistance" for your Journey through Life
- Dedicated to helping people return (and maintain) sanity and decency to life -
Comments and Questions are welcome

"Everything in your life is there as a vehicle

for your transformation.

We're all walking each other home".

~Ram Dass

Every Journey begins with a single step. Yours

too; your First step . . .

No one can walk with you till you take that first

step, beautiful person.

Nothing can change until it is faced.

Dawn Cove Abbey is a not-for-profit organization, and offers this

educational

teaching

site about human

behaviour and emotional, mental and

spiritual

problems

, freely to all

"Educate" means to "lead out", as

in helping lead someone out of the da

kness into

the light.

Education results in constant cognitive shifts.

Much of what we have been taught about Life, Health, Illness,

"Ailments" and especially "Disorders"

and Healing, etc, has been wrong.

The names and classification we've been "taught", don't really exist

- they are simply

Classifications

that the mental health profession uses

etween themselves as a kind

insider

roadmap"

: unfortunately, for

the rest of us they have been turned into "Labels"

that in turn

have

resulted in stigmatization

, and a lot of misunderstanding

This site aims to

demystify

this

through education: you will experience many

cognitive shifts

here (since

the site is huge, and pages are being updated, and/or revised, not all will be cognitive shifters - until they

too, are revised and brought up to date.

Cognitive Shift One

The brain and the mind are not synonyms: the brain is the hard-wired biological central processor. The

mind is

a different entity - it does our thinking and learning - and it continually has to counter (or

adapt/modify the brain's input/output. Think of the brain being the "hardware", and the mind being the

"software" of our being - they constantly interact.

Cognitive Shift Two

The human experience

, and

behaviour is a vast continuum:

a single

"spectrum" that describes the entire

vast range

of the great vast continuum of the diverse range of

human

behaviour,

like the

colour

(

sound

)

spectrum

oth are

continuous whole

aving

tremendous

variations

within

each

. Behaviour

can

only be understood that

ay. There are no "sub-spectrums": all

variations are complementary

the

whole: whether sound

colour

; and so it is with the range of

human behaviou

diver

ity

; and complexity

Hence, there is NO "

normal

Life is a continuous, dynamic flow of transition -

constantly changing

. I

nformation

and

knowledge

quickly become

dated,

recognized as

erroneous, and

/or

inadequate to

the need

. N

ew concepts,

discoveries

and

insights occur

includ

ing

the field of mental, emotional, and spiritual health.

Those

are

followed by revisions in "categories and definitions" regarding

behaviours,

illnesses,

"disorders",

traits, syndromes,

(all with "labels",

etc - as well as approaches

to dealing and

coping

with them

(and/or

healing from them).

But they remain to be just that

labels and "classifications"

: in the broadest

sense - they are not "real":

but, importantly, the things they refer to

are very real for people.

HOME - MAIN

SITE MAP (Links)
Throughout the site you will find Horizontal and Vertical bars like the following:
They are Menus for navigating the site:
simply click/tap on the topic to select your choice