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End of August has always felt like a sunset season to me. An integration of so much. A Sunday, in the best possible way. The true end to the year and beginning of a new one. It’s hazy, just dripping with nostalgia, but on the cusp of schedules

Want is not a frivolous thing. Values-aligned want is the quiet, insistent pulse beneath the surface of your life, the signal of your aliveness and possibly the compass toward living authentically into it.

To truly want is to open to your own longi

“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

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