Tag: Individuation

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Individuation is the lifelong journey of becoming who you were always meant to be. It is the sacred courage to move beyond the collective expectations of the world and weave together the disparate threads of history, shadow, and untapped potential. By integrating the conscious and unconscious mind, we step into our own unique, unrepeatable truth—the path toward psychological wholeness and the realization of the true Self.

  • Odd

    Odd

    To truly know and accept oneself, and to offer that same grace to another, is the heart of living fully.

  • Good Help is Hard to Find

    Good Help is Hard to Find

    The goal of psychotherapy is healthy, reciprocal relationships with others. It is also to become aware of when others unconsciously manipulate you to get their own needs met. If you can do that after receiving help, you have arrived.

  • The Beginning of Wisdom

    The Beginning of Wisdom

    “How do I heal myself?” This is what we most want to know, isn’t it?

  • Moving On

    Moving On

    Sometimes we have to move on, because what is no longer necessary or supportive of growth must be let go.

  • How Uncommonly Difficult

    How Uncommonly Difficult

    Any large company composed of wholly admirable persons has the morality and intelligence of an unwieldy, stupid, and violent animal. The bigger the organization, the more unavoidable is its immorality and blind stupidity. C. G. Jung (1977)

  • The Goose Girl

    The Goose Girl

    The manner in which we leave, or are forced to leave home is a golden key that unlocks the mysteries of a lost inheritance. From the way we left, we can see what’s missing and will need to be reclaimed.

  • The Middle Passage

    The Middle Passage

    Many people never pass from childhood to adulthood developmentally, but are overgrown children, and many never pass from the first adulthood into the second, and thus have unlived lives.

  • MapQuest

    MapQuest

    People like to know where they’re going before they go somewhere. We use our maps for even the simplest excursions. There’s something comforting about knowing where you’re going, isn’t there?

  • The Hidden Seed

    The Hidden Seed

    Devastating losses in the temporal world have led to corresponding psychological losses, so that a person experiences a state of nearly complete loss of ego identity and identification with the material world.

  • On Being Whole

    On Being Whole

    Those who have worked on themselves enough to be comfortable with who they are […] do not need or ask to be understood by others. The appropriate attitude for a long-term working relationship is not understanding, but acceptance