Inspiring ideas

The egg is the archetype of generative space. It is a nurturing and transformative environment.

The phrase feels like a contradiction in terms: we think of lemmings following each other into collective suicide as they jump off a cliff.

I have long been intrigued about viewing the process of therapy as a sort of neo-shamanic journey. I am not talking about using ancient shamanic procedures as healing tools.

All too often, burnout makes you less able to do the very things you’d need to do to overcome burnout

What happens when we get polarized? How can we avoid polarization to engage in more enriching discussions?

I’m going to tell you a story, my take on Buddha’s life. It does not follow the traditional telling of the story,

In this article, I am talking about shifting from a reactive mode to a proactive one. Before describing this process,

Underlying stress is the enormous surge in energy coming from the fight or flight response.

Highly sensitive people make up about 20 percent of the population, and likely include equal numbers of men and women.

It has often been said that adversity builds character. How does this work? Research on resilience suggests a metaphor.

A dream can be an incredibly powerful springboard into a whole new dimension of meaning. Creatively exploring the dream, and what it means to you, can lead you to deep insights.

deciphering the content of a dream means being able to get in touch with information that is important, but difficult for our conscious mind to access.

This page provides two more examples of creative, embodied dream analysis: One is an audio recording, and the other is a video.

The experience of selfhood is not the entirety of our organism, but an integrated expression of the entire organism acting in its environment.

What is it like to feel stuck? When you’re stuck in a rut, it saps your ability to get unstuck.

What does it mean to be proactive, as opposed to reactive? And how can we do it? This is what this article is about.

In my mind, the greatest value of this model is to emphasize that grief is not one-dimensional:

James Prochaska, John Norcross and Carlo DiClemente developed a theory identifying 6 stages of changing. The following is a summary of the 6 stages in this theory.