Many books discuss dream analysis from various angles. Some are more psychologically minded, and I tend to favor the books based on Jungian concepts of dreamwork and the unconscious, such as The Wisdom of the Dream by Merrill Berger and Stephen Segaller. Others, like Jeremy Taylor’s Wisdom of Your Dreams, feel more easily digestible and solid, examining dreams and the … More Dreamwork: Wrestling with our Dreams
CIGARETTE STUBS Walking to get some lunch in Boulder this week, I passed by a discarded cigarette stub. This is the kind of thing most people pass continually and never notice. On another day, I may have done the same, but this day I noticed it, or rather, a part of me took notice and … More Surfing Waves of Emotions Toward Insight
RECALLING DREAMS Often, when I talk to people about dreams, people insist they don’t dream. I believe that research has shown that we all dream, and perhaps even that we must dream. Most people mistake not remembering dreams for meaning they don’t dream. Learning to remember our dreams usually takes some concerted effort. I learned early in my life … More DREAM ARCHETYPES: The Dream Stage
A DREAM REVISITED I have written in the past about the Ouroboros symbol of the snake biting its tail before. This symbol had adopted me, or I had adopted it after a dream I had in 2017. Perhaps it was always there, buried in my unconscious. The dream I’ve written of before was at my … More Trust in the Return: Ouroboros revisited
As a Jungian and Depth psychotherapist, one area I am interested in is finding new strategies to support us in mental health care. We all have coping mechanisms in our lives, and often our coping mechanisms are unhealthy or simply nonexistent. I use the word mechanisms because these are more like automatic ways we attempt to regulate ourselves. If a mechanism or habit is … More Journaling Tips
Follow Your Myth 