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.

  • Analytic Tools

    Analytic Tools

    When we analyze our dreams–even our so-called ‘waking dreams’–what we’re analyzing is images that have particular meaning to us as individuals. No one else will perceive the meanings we perceive.

  • Where Is My Home?

    Where Is My Home?

    How difficult it is to be happy or content as a state of mind when one’s soul was schooled in loneliness, anxiety, and abandonment.

  • The Abundant Womb

    The Abundant Womb

    Neither marriage nor childrearing will save you. Spouses and children do not satisfy the need for spiritual and psychological advancement

  • By the Throat

    By the Throat

    What are my psychological survival tools? What will help me maintain my sense of self? What will I need to believe, think, or do that will help me keep hope and joy alive?

  • Master, Mentor, Teacher, Guide

    Master, Mentor, Teacher, Guide

    A person who changes lifelong patterns does it through consistent, wise, reliable accountability to another, and also by having the structure that supports the pattern systematically dismantled.

  • Problem-Solving as Support

    Problem-Solving as Support

    A child is still in the process of learning the skills required to survive, and is thereby more susceptible to stress.  The child needs to know that the parent will be there for him or her. 

  • Introverted Thinking: Bah, Humbug!

    Introverted Thinking: Bah, Humbug!

    The introverted thinking type tends to vanish behind a cloud of misunderstanding […] He simply does not see when he is being plundered behind his back and wronged in practice.

  • Vampire

    Vampire

    Isn’t the vampire the perfect metaphor for our bloated American culture with its reality TV, true crime series, tabloids and gossip magazines, thinly-disguised social media voyeurism, and Snapchats where meaning must be communicated in 60 seconds or less?

  • Creating a Life

    Creating a Life

    The first half of life is often, Hollis writes, “a great and inevitable mistake, a bloody blundering.”

  • Things My Mother Didn’t Tell Me

    Things My Mother Didn’t Tell Me

    The love of a mother is so powerful, it lasts a lifetime and beyond. Every time you think of that love, you know you are enough. This is true even if that love came through a different relative.