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Weekly Theme: Intro to Parent Models
Images of Healthy Parent Models Today we begin a new series on images of healthy parent models. It’s no real stretch to suggest that how we were parented influences who we become. From Freud to now, psychology has been dominated in large part by the reconciliation of...
Weekly Theme: the Third Eye Chakra
I stood upon a high place And saw, below, many devils Running, leaping, And carousing in sin. One looked up, grinning, And said: “Comrade! Brother!” -Stephen Crane The Center of Consciousness Undoubtedly you have heard of the third eye chakra. In large part, we might...
Weekly Theme: the Heart Chakra
Song of a man who has come through Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. If only I let it bear me, carry me, if only it carry me! [...] If only I am keen and hard like the sheer tip of a wedge Driven by...
Weekly Theme: the Solar Plexus Chakra
Curiosity, Respect, Compassion, and Trust Early in our work with the psyche and soma connection, we introduced the concept that the interrelationship between the body and mind is a primary factor in the individuation of one's personality. For example, we approach a...
Weekly Theme: the Sacral Chakra
“Ultimately, to acknowledge the life of the body, and to affirm our solidarity with this physical form, is to acknowledge our existence as one of the earth's animals” – David Abram Vegetal, Instinctual, and Rational Aristotle once wrote that the human soul is a...
Weekly Theme: The Root Chakra
How will you hold the rare and perilous given you? Dawn begins in the bones – Risa Kaparo The Connection Between the Psyche and the Soma We are not just physical bodies, nor are we the untouchable substance of our thoughts and feelings. Somewhere in the...
Weekly Theme: Suicide and the Soul, Part 2
The Dwindling Attention Span Is it a common occurrence for you to pay attention? How much of your day is spent in the here and now? Add up the countless hours of television, mindless tasks, ruminating thoughts, and mind-filled wonderings. It can illuminate just how...
Introduction to Dream Work
Personal and Reflective of the Collective Unconscious This week we will be starting a 4-week series on dream work and dream tending. Freud and Jung both played a significant role in the depth psychological emphasis on the importance of dreams and dream work. However,...
Typology: Archetypal Insight and Interpersonal Understanding
Opening the Darkened Caverns In Integrity In Depth, Jungian Analyst and Typology Specialist John Beebe suggests that therapy engages typological functions of both the therapist and the patient. When we use typology and work with the 8 functions to understand ourselves...
Nurturing the Unique Genius of the Soul
… All I did was give him a look of confident expectation. An infant learning to walk, you know he can learn to walk, but the infant doesn’t know. You give the infant the confident support of your expectation. – Milton Erickson Trust only movement. Life happens at the...
Weekly Theme: the 21 Day Challenge
This week's theme is going to focus on two things. First, we are going to piggyback on our recent “Future Selves” blog and focus on how to create what each of us wants in our future lives. In short, how we create good habits. We want to encourage everyone to take a 21...
Weekly Theme: Our Future Selves
The Closest of Strangers As we speak, at this very moment, there is someone very close to you whom you will never meet. You might feel this nearness at all times. You may catch the essence of this person as a scent in the wind. Perhaps, if you look hard enough, you...
Weekly Theme: Grief and Loss
When we deny the full expression of our grief, it lays like a weight on our hearts, causing emotional pain and physical ailments – bell hooks Processing Grief and Loss No person who comes to Barn Life to heal is a stranger to grief and loss. Whether it be a...
Weekly Theme: Fear and Self-Doubt
The Identified Problem Fear is part of the human experience and unanimously felt. However, our fears are also deeply personal and rooted in lived experiences. We believe there is a threat to be feared. We believe this whether the threat is physical, such as fear of...
Weekly Theme: Gratitude
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Positivity Psychology...
Weekly Theme: Shadow and Vulnerability
It goes without saying that this year presents a difficult task for all of us. We all have questions about our place in this world. How does the vocation of healers come into contact with the evolving and unpredictable circumstances of a global pandemic? Furthermore,...
Weekly Theme: Shadows and Halloween
Our Celebration of the Macabre “To confront a person with his Shadow is to show him his own light…anyone who perceives his Shadow and his light simultaneously sees himself from two sides and thus gets in the middle.” – Dr. Carl Jung, Good and Evil in Analytical...
Weekly Theme: Athena
This week we explore the qualities of Athena. Namely, her hero-favoring nature and her commanding and tempered presence. With Athena, we accomplish our goals with spear-pointed precision and our vulnerabilities are well armored and protected. Born from the head of...