When patterns repeat and don’t make sense Do you ever find yourself engaging in a pattern over and over, and you can see, when you take a step back, that you’re doing it, but in the moment it’s so hard to witness or change it? Or do you find that there are parts of yourself […]
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Archetypes are essentially configurations of repeated patterns that are so widely present in the human and natural world that they are instantly recognizable to the deepest and most primal aspects of our psyche. Because of this, archetypes hold great power in meaning-making and storytelling. Think of the mother or the father archetype, for example. These
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In my last post, I spoke about the power of archetypes and referenced some of the main ones that were identified by Carl Jung. But there’s a really important one, especially for women, that Jung did not explicitly name: the wild woman archetype. The wild woman is perhaps the most important feminine archetype because she
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Throughout the holiday season, there’s a symbol that recurs across various traditions — the flame. It’s an archetype that calls us to consider how we hold the warmth of the sun within us when it has dimmed — how we become the bringers of light in darkness, how we carry that light into our homes
As highly sensitive and imaginative individuals, we tend to experience the world in rich, intricate ways. We feel deeply, connect profoundly, and our creativity allows us to navigate life in beautifully unique ways. However, when it comes to our sexual lives (along with many aspects of our lives), this sensitivity and creativity can sometimes feel
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When I was in my Clinical Psychology MA program, we were often encouraged to choose one theoretical orientation to start with. While I chose Depth Psychology as my initial approach, I always felt that each theory had advantages that would prove useful for specific situations or clients. I found myself developing quite an anti-dogmatic approach
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We’re currently living in an age where access to knowledge about psychology and mental health is at an all-time high. While that comes with many benefits, there are also some drawbacks. One of those drawbacks is the saturation of messaging around healing: avoiding toxic people, dealing with toxic people, noticing red flags. All of this
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Many people seek couples therapy to enhance their intimacy because they often grapple with feelings of loneliness, disconnection, and invisibility. But why is this? Why is intimacy such a challenging aspect for so many couples? When we examine the word “intimate,” its true meaning is closeness—a type of closeness that enables another person to know
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Active imagination is a meditative technique that a psychiatrist created you may have heard of: Carl Gustav Jung. Very long story short, young one day, he realized that he could communicate with various aspects of his psyche that he did not fully understand or that were unconscious by actively engaging with his imagination – hence
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Do you ever find it difficult to express what you’re feeling? This is a rhetorical question since it happens to all of us. It can be challenging to express our feelings in words for myriad reasons. For example, if we grew up in a household where emotional language was never used and emotions were not
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