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“A woman may crave to be near water, or be belly down, her face in the earth, smelling the wild smell. She might have to drive into the wind. She may have to plant something, pull things out of the ground or put them into the ground. She may ha
Jungian Analyst June Singer said “We must first know who we are and where we have come from before we can risk embracing the lesser-known aspects of our beings.” 

I’ve been reading and necessarily rereading parts of her book, Bound
Our ego’s conditioning for goodness is in direct opposition to our soul’s longing for wholeness. 

Women specifically are conditioned for goodness (men for power, read more in Elise Loehnen’s On Our Best Behavior). 

We are taught t
This is the work. To sit at the altar of what hurts and offer it patience, surrender, curiosity. To develop  deep trust in your capacity to flow with the seasons of your life, knowing that all the while you are becoming more and more yourself. 

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In a riptide of grief and gratitude near constantly these days. I think both are evidence that we are living and loving deeply. Equal parts ache and awe. 

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This poem by Albert Camus hangs as a large tapestry in my kids little library at home. It’s a reminder of what nature taught me about Self before I learned it from Jung, before I learned the clinical language around ego strength. It’s a r
From a depth psychological perspective, ego stability is what allows the Self to emerge. It provides the structure that holds the psyche as we do deep inner work—grieving, shedding, awakening. Without a strong ego, the psyche can’t withst
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