Jung

Using the lens of Jungian depth psychology, somatics, and alchemical symbolism, this blog guides readers through the stages of solutio: the period of individual growth between what we were and what we will be. The piece weaves together fairy tale symbolism, and features a breath practice to nourish us, give us access to our inner glimmers, and increase our tolerance for this chrysalis state.

Using the lens of Jungian depth psychology, somatic therapy, and alchemical symbolism, it guides readers through the stages of calcinatio: the necessary burning away of false selves, borrowed identities, and performed worthiness, and past the threshold of the forest: the wild, unmapped interior of the psyche. The piece weaves together fairy tale symbolism, embodied practice, and three centers of knowing: head, heart, and body, as a compass for navigating life's unavoidable lo

If you've been stuck in your head—thinking about your emotions, analyzing them, understanding them, but never quite feeling different—this might be what's missing. Not more insight. Not more understanding. More feeling. More body. More permission to actually be with what's there. It's uncomfortable at first. Unfamiliar. Maybe even scary. But on the other side of avoiding your feelings is something you've been searching for: the actual experience of being alive.

A word from the Latin limen, meaning “threshold.”It is the space between stories. The place between the life you’ve outgrown and the one not yet born.

The importance of somatic healing in trauma work. Because safety isn't a cognitive process. It's a body felt-sense.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” ~ Jung