Spanning both conversion therapists and those that survive their egregious psychological abuse, there is a strong commonality among them– their desire for sympathy, attention, and money (SAM). When viewed broadly, SAM is a large part of what creates the overarching context of conversion therapy both within the church and within survivor activism. A lot of what we see stems from years if not decades of learned behaviors while actively undergoing conversion practices...

The fields of Yoga Therapy and Ayurveda are at a critical juncture in their professional development here within the Capitalistic paradigms we have ourselves enmeshed within across North America; of which extends to nearly all of the holistic health and medicine professions at present...

This article is an exploration of all of the hierarchies of harm present within holistic health and medicine and how moving toward non-hierarchical structures can be achieved.