A hidden suitcase of emotions the body won’t let us forget by Associate Depth Therapist, Bec Simone We have all likely heard that “The body never lies.” What does this actually mean? How do we listen to the body? How can we find meaning in listening to the body and work towards healing? Recently, in
Dissecting Midlife: There's a Point to Unraveling In this post, I write about the experience of midlife through the lens of individuation, a term coined by C.G. Jung, one of the founders of depth psychology – the study of the unconscious. You can think about individuation as the process of coming into relationship with all
“A dream is a piece of reality whose origin is personal but obscure, whose meaning is pregnant but uncertain and whose fate in the world of the waking-ego lies in our own hands.” - James Hall One thing that sets depth-psychotherapists apart from other therapists is that they work with dreams. In fact, they take
I'm pleased to be able to share the information on how working with dreams can inform and guide the process towards wholeness. This work is grounded in my 2018 publication Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype: A Guide to Becoming a Whole, In-divisible Woman. This interview was part of the 2018 Dreamwork Summit a free
The eventual achievement that our suffering has meaning makes suffering more bearable. The area of wounding is a direct route to the numinosum. The archetype at the core is both the one that causes the suffering and is also the one that can cause the healing through increased consciousness of that area of suffering. The
I think it is important to become aware of the patriarchal dominant operating within the psyche in order to differentiate it from a new masculine perspective. I believe this moves toward the father and mother complex and both of those need to be resolved for the emergent feminine, anima, and the new masculine, animus within
By Stacey Shelby, Ph.D. I want to turn to the fourth task in the myth of Eros and Psyche. Psyche’s fourth and final task given to her by Aphrodite is to descend to the underworld and meet the great goddess, Persephone. Psyche is to ask Persephone for a cask of her beauty ointment and bring
