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.

  • 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)

  • 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

  • What Not to Wear

    What Not to Wear

    After all this time, a pattern has emerged, and out of that pattern, a truth: We dress the way we want other people to treat us.

  • Doing the Work

    Doing the Work

    Life isn’t fair and there is no observable grand scheme for rewarding good and punishing evil in the temporal world. Those who are good, generous, and even innocent can and do suffer beyond measure.

  • For the Weary of Vision

    For the Weary of Vision

    His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else.