"If you are living for an ideal and driving yourself as hard as you can to be perfect - at your job or as a mother or as a perfect wife - you lose the natural, slow rhythm of life. There's a rushing, trying to attain the ideal; the slower pace of the beat of the earth, the state where you simply are, is forgotten."
Marion Woodman
"We all develop a persona in our lives; a way of being in the world that we believe others will like, accept, or approve of. We do this to survive but it becomes suffocating and painful to live outside of our true nature and we long to return there." Jungian analyst, Marion Woodman, believed that we first bury our soul in the unconscious as we develop the persona that is prized by society. The key to our authentic personhood lies in our inner well; the images of our sleeping and waking dreams; the feelings in the cells of our bodies which lay the breadcrumb trail back to our buried soul.
You may feel like you are lost or trapped. A feeling of "not being like yourself"; that there's so much more beneath your own surface, but you don't know who to talk to about it or even how to talk about it.
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Do you feel like there's so much more beneath your surface?
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Do you feel fragmented as you wrestle to get it right; to be a good girl; to satisfy everyone's needs, leaving you exhausted and drained?
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Do you judge and berate yourself, holding yourself to impossible standards?
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Do you long to trust yourself and to bring compassion and acceptance to yourself just as you are?
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Do you long for a richer, more creative life, but you find you don't have enough time/energy/space or feel that whatever you do is not good/worthwhile/enough?
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Do you long for something different but feel terrified of what you might have to give up?
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Do you look longingly at women who are wilder, more free, more at home in their bodies and wish you could learn what they embody?
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Are you curious about mystery and mysticism, the feminine and Jungian psychology but don't know where to begin?
If any of this resonates with you, I offer a bridge that meets you where you are and connects with your desires. Together, we co-create a sanctuary for 'Soul-making', in the lineage of Marion Woodman, a place where you can build inner strength, connect with your true nature, find routes into your embodied experience and feel into a wholeness beneath the conditioned layers.
"There is no sense talking about 'being true to yourself' until you are sure what voice you are being true to. It takes hard work to differentiate the voices of the unconscious."
Marion Woodman
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