BASELINE MOOD & AMPLIFIERS In the past, I’ve written about our baseline mood in life, imagining it as a flat line that represents how we can check in with where we are. This baseline is neutral, neither good nor bad; it is simply a starting point. As things come in and out of our awareness, our … More Fields of Awareness
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
Awakening the Soul’s blueprint from Aristotle to Jung I’m thinking about the concept of stuckness in life, and how it’s challenging to recognize when we’restuck. We may be stuck in a certain job, a relationship, or a lack of a relationship. We may be stuck with a philosophy of life that is no longer serving us, and … More BECOMING UNSTUCK:
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
When I began this article, it was just meant as a short guide to understanding something I emphasize with clients all the time. The work in session continues outside of sessions and can be summarized by three words, Tracking, Processing, and Integration. Now this is a simplification of the process of psychotherapy. It is meant … More Indiana Jones and the Inner Crusade
This week I am writing another article on the value of journaling and doing other forms of self-work such as artwork as part of our own internal journey. At a time when our country and world may feel torn apart by disagreements it is important to not simply jump into the fray of disagreements, but to once again turn … More Symbols We Share and Why Writing Works
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
I remember when I began my sessions in psychotherapy nearly 30 years ago. Aside from feeling lost in my life, depressed, anxious, and angry – I was under the distinct impression at times that therapy wasn’t doing anything for me. Therapy felt like a slow glacier moving down a mountain. It was a grueling process of showing … More TIMELAPSE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY
An audio version of this article is below, if you would like to listen instead. A little over a year ago I wrote about grief and the intertwining of words, talking of May Sarton’s explanation that the gothic word Kara, means “lament” and is the root word for care. This intertwining of words means that lament, or … More PROEMNESIS: Folding with One’s Life
This article contains some spoilers for the Foundation series on AppleTV. I like to think that psychotherapy is in part, about trying to understand the narrative of one’s life. This is not such a simple thing because our narrative, as we explore it in psychotherapy, involves following the many threads that are woven into the fabric of our life. … More Mural of Souls
Follow Your Myth 