Four Things K-Pop Demon Hunters Gets Right about Shame and Facing our Inner Demons
By Isaiah Lin, MA, PsyD
The newest streaming craze of 2025 is Netflix’s KPop Demon Hunters. Premiering in late June, the show has now amassed 314 million views making it the most watched film in Netflix history and is being referred to by some as the Frozen of this generation....Learn More
We Are Not Alone
In May we hosted our first gathering in six years! We gathered at Newport Presbyterian Church to enjoy a luncheon and a talk by author and mindfulness mentor, Kurt Hoelting.
94% of registrants attended, making for great discussion.
We raised $19,040 total, netting $14, 299.50.
2024 Therapy...Learn More
Samaritan board member and retired therapist, Peggy Hansen, has written the following questions to help you reflect:
As you think about these four simple descriptions of wise behavior, do they remind you of other things you’ve learned or believed over the years?
If you were to create your own...Learn More
By Beverly Shrumm, Executive Director
Our history as an agency has relied on faithfulness to our core mission and on an openness to strategic changes to further that mission. Another significant strategic change lies ahead. I have determined, considering the costs we face and our reduced need for a such a large facility, that selling our building in the Green Lake neighborhood is our...Learn More
I am 3 months postpartum and am shocked by how angry I am all the time. I’m not an angry person, and I don’t know why I feel this way. What is wrong with me?
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One of the strengths of Samaritan is that we are available to help people in an ongoing way with the problems that inevitably arise in life.
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By Beverley Shrumm, MC, LMHC
Executive Director, Samaritan Center of Puget Sound
When I try to recall when various things happened over the past two years, I have the most challenging time. Perhaps you share that experience. I remember where I was on March 10, 2020 with clarity. Our clinical director, Matt Percy, was reviewing the structure, ethics and procedures of the...Learn More
