I am woman. Deal with it.

editor's note: She awaits to emerge within us all. By Talya Eidelman For all women. I am woman. Don’t tell me who I am. I have known ever since the world was created. Don’t tell me what to feel or how to behave. I am woman. Don’t try and teach me about the old ways that should have been dead a long time ago. I am woman. Do you know anything about my body? It houses the world and it is the wisest thing on this planet. ...

The wounded healer: visiting the archetype

This is the archetype that continues to makes the most sense for me during this part of my life process. It helps give meaning to this otherwise often gargantuan task of healing from the iatrogenic injury incurred from the psychiatric drugs. Many of us who have been harmed in this way are doing this together. ...

We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers …

Archetypal energies beckon us to live a larger life. We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers -- but often these potentials remain in latent form. Through song, dance, storytelling and meditation we can activate these archetypes. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

The inner world of trauma

The following excerpt is the first three paragraphs to the introduction of The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit, by Donald Kalsched. I started reading it yesterday. The experience I have reading it is similar to when I read some of the books I experienced as formative in my early adulthood. Being swept up like this is wonderful. Wow! I’ve not happened upon a book like this in a long time. What was even more delicious is that I came upon the book in a highly synchronistic way, in the home of someone for which I’m cat sitting. It felt like it was handed to me at the very moment I needed it. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

We’re all healers, warriors, visionaries, teachers — but often these potentials remain latent

Archetypal energies beckon us to live a larger life. We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers -- but often these potentials remain in latent form. Through song, dance, storytelling and meditation we can activate these archetypes.

Goddess Kali, an archetype that has been with me a long time

I’ve been drawn to the Goddess Kali archetype for many years. Kali is an archetype of transformation and renewal, following necessary cleansing destruction. … [click on title for the rest of the post]

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