Imagine there’s a sense of belonging, at the core of any form we could ever take, that can never be taken away, and which can always be accessed through an open, inner door. How would it be if the love…
Imagine there’s a sense of belonging, at the core of any form we could ever take, that can never be taken away, and which can always be accessed through an open, inner door. How would it be if the love…
The partner of despair is hope. Need has no opposite. In Need, hope and despair are one. “You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.” VERNON HOWARD The question “What is needed?”…
The miracle of the human brain is only beginning to be understood: not least in its remarkable ability to attune to the environment and to reflect energetic resonance from others. When we are able to consciously allow this in therapy,…
“The partner of shame is disgust. Purity has no opposite. In purity, disgust and shame are one.” Shame Shame is a light emitted out of the intense pain of exposure. It’s not heavy, but hot and rapid, charged with unbearable…
The partner of despair is hope. Need has no opposite. In need, hope and despair are one. Hope In some ways, to live in hope is to deny the intelligence of life. Although hope is prized as a virtue, it…
Between the inherited and conditioned structures of personality and the qualities of our essential Being, there is a rift of emptiness. This traumatic rift is sometimes referred to as the Dark Night of the Soul, or the Valley of the…
“Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.” Lao Tzu When I was nine years old, my mother remarried and we moved from England to live in Belgium. My parents had married young…
Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Abel Meeropol (1939) As in horror we watch the digital broadcast…
Scientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down for 14 Generations Recent scientific findings on the power of inherited trauma to influence and literally form the intimate structures of our personalities is emerging as a game-breaker in both therapy and…
“Fear”, you said, “is in you.” Fear like grief, like longing, Like a lust. Fear like a butterfly’s hour, a fountain of light- the edge of unknowing. Fear – the space before Surrender. Opening now, can I open? finding…