Renegade Therapies, Grants Pass, OR (2026)

06/12/2023

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01/15/2023

Interesting perspective from inside the mind of a teenager engaging in some serious self-harm.

He looks at our “elite/leaders” and sees the same dynamics he witnesses everyday in high-school. The same s**t he wants no part of.
He’s not impressed, all he is seeing is old, run down, stressed out faces on stressed out and out of shape bodies of extremely unimpressive people who are holding the highest positions of power in his culture…..

he struggles to find hope that these people will do anything except make things a whole lot worse for everyone.

He see’s social media as evil.

He see’s the pharmaceutical industry as corrupt.

He views celebrities as “fake people”

He hates war.

He refuses to compare himself to others.

ChaptGPT and AI in general are scaring the s**t out of him.

How do you plan and hope for a future as a young person when the adults in the room are just as clueless as to what that will look like as you?

I asked about his drug use. He said he avoids hard drugs.
When I asked him what does “hard drugs” mean to him, he said, “what the doctors prescribe and a lot of his friends and their parents are addicted to”

He doesn’t care for alcohol.

He uses cannabis but only when he’s alone and safe and he’ll watch mindless television but only if it guarantees a happy ending when the show concludes.
He uses psilocybin (magic mushrooms) once or twice a year with close friends which makes him feel a lot better but only for a few weeks.

He has a heavy daily intake of ni****ne via va**ng.

Nowhere in his assessment of the world is he finding any hope. This dude spends a good majority of his day to day life not feeling a fu***ng thing. But dammit if that freshly cut flesh on his thighs doesn’t bring him back life for a minute.

Sorry to hit your social feed with something potentially depressing, but hopefully you got some takeaways that increase your understandings of our youth in some way.

As far as I’m concerned he will be totally fine. There appears to be something really powerful about a quick 30-minute conversation with some random guy outside of his family and friend circle who’s taking a heavy curiosity based interest in his young mind and genuinely cares for his outcome yet seems to seems to lack agenda otherwise. It goes much farther for kids like him than you’d think.

His Mom reported that immediately after our call, it was the happiest she has heard him sound in months.

Is that enough? Probably not. We will keep the dialogue in motion regularly and I’ll always remain just a phone call away for this kid being that he’s out of state but either way my guess is he will be independent and self actualized long before the rest of us.

Brilliant Kid! And far from a clueless teenager.

Thanks for reading,

Joel

Renegadetherapies.org

01/03/2023

Happy New Year

As I did my initial outreach for Renegade Therapies youth project I found myself in the presence of particularly angry young men. One as young as age 12 and as dark of fantasies as murdering their own Mother. There’s obviously work to be done here and fortunately this particular 12 year old came to the right dude when it comes to dark fantasies and understanding them.

But it got me thinking in depth about anger in general for the first time in a while and I’ve really distilled it down to these few ideas pulled from my years of working with my own anger as well as others.

Anger is something to be grappled with and transformed and not dispelled or done away with.
That same energy that manifests itself in such destructive ways when it’s outside our control is the same energy source we would use to protect ourselves and those we love in dangerous situations. The ability to show restraint and mercy in situations like those however, comes down to whether or not we have full control of this force.

If anger is wrestled with and tamed properly, it can be a primary source of fearlessness and strength used in the pursuit to becoming a full-grown human being. But only of course, if it is fully within our control.
And truly controlling it is easier said than done. Especially when what tends to lie beneath all the anger is a hell of a lot more grief than we would ever expect, ever want to feel, or be able to understand. Fortunately, I don’t think you have to understand it but if we ever want the chance to get anger under our full control, fully feeling the grief or whatever lies beneath is something I don’t believe to be optional.

These understandings about anger and more led to the development of the approach currently being utilized by Renegade Therapies when working with youth. Particularly pi**ed off young Men who are at the top of our su***de rates and the only ones shooting up the damn place. ��You can read more about the approach being used in the Youth project at Renegadetherapies.org/about or at the link in bio

It’s a long, strange, complex and highly rewarding road ahead. That’s for damn sure. Keep me and my family in your prayers please. Happy New Year!

✌️

-Joel

11/27/2022

During a meeting with the lead mental health counselor inside the juvenile detention center here in deschutes county she pointed out an insight/statistic that I did not expect AT ALL.

And it’s that a large portion (60%+) of young men being admitted into detention belong to homes of single fathers. With no active mother in their home/lives.

Didn’t see that coming, but it makes intuitive sense.

Mom’s are not as replaceable as the absence of a father in the home.

Young men can find other father figures and role models outside the home to inspire them towards manhood and maybe even love them.

But a mothers love?

Not so easily replaced.

Lots to think about here, strategically for renegadetherapies.org but also a not so fun fact for Moms to mull over this weekend.

To the Mom’s out there…

You’re doing great just by showing up!

To the mom’s wallowing away in their shortcomings..

Showing up everyday with all your mess is a hell of a lot better than not showing up at all.

Unless you’re a narccisistic, crazy ass, severely wounded ass mom, then maybe not. But I’m guessing I don’t have one of those mom’s reading this 😜

Much love ❤️✌️

-Joel

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