Freedom’s Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose
This is an excellent article on the experience of being in a therapeutic process
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March, 2014
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March, 2014
Daydreaming and Realization
“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” Albert Einstein One of my all-time favourite things to do is to go to my meditation corner of the house, light a candle, cafe [...]
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March, 2014
Healing the Mother Complex or Learning the Power of No
Beware. Many therapists, social workers, ‘do-gooders’ and ‘good mothers or fathers’ have a raging mother complex lying underneath the calm, kind exterior, and it’s a killer. This complex knows no gender boundaries and can be equally present in both men and women. In my blog on The Inner Community, I talked about complexes in general, [...]
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March, 2014
Class Notes – Session Four
Debra has a wonderful series of reflections on Alchemical Psychology - check it out!
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February, 2014
Alchemical Psychology: Why does it matter?
One of Hillman’s last gifts to us before his death, Alchemical Psychology, is perhaps one of the most important contributions to Jungian thought because it sheds light on the importance of alchemical metaphors for the soul’s journey. For many followers of Jung, myself included, the difficulty of penetrating the alchemical mysteries in order to grasp [...]
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December, 2013
Anxiety: The Underbelly of Trust
Anxiety seems to be one of the most pervasive conditions bedeviling people these days. Perhaps this isn’t surprising given that we are bombarded by chronic bad news and dire warnings at every turn. Many of my clients struggle with chronic, underlying anxiety, and sometimes, in the worst-case scenarios, these manifest in full-blown anxiety attacks that [...]
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November, 2013
Holding the Tension of the Opposites
You know when you know you just KNOW something? And it doesn’t matter what other people’s opinions are. In fact, further discussion just feels like a spinning of the wheels. Have you ever looked back and wondered about this? Sometimes you can angst over something for a very long while….waffling back and forth, weighing pros [...]
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September, 2013
Lament of the Dead: Psychology after Jung’s Red Book – A Discussion, Part 1
A very important book, which sheds valuable light on Jung’s Red Book, has recently been published. Sonu Shamdasani, the editor who worked for years on The Red Book, entered into conversation with the late James Hillman, Jungian analyst and author of Archetypal Psychology and Re-Visioning Psychology among many others. Their documented conversation about The Red [...]
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July, 2013
Notes from Sophia – the Divine Face of Inner Wisdom
That still, small voice within…..can you hear it? Are you listening? When we first begin to attune to our own inner wisdom, it can feel difficult to discern. There is such a cacophony of voices from our inner community of conflicting interests, desires and repulsions, that the pure, clear note of Sophia, the wisdom principle, [...]
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July, 2013
How do I forgive?
This was a question that again came into focus as I talked with an old client I hadn’t seen in many years. Deep woundings of the psyche can fester for years, and probably even lifetimes. They are like the deeply entrenched psychic tattoos that simply don’t go away. And so how can we heal these [...]