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Tag Archives: motherhood
‘The Death Mother’ Toko-pa
The Death Mother Click on the link for this interesting and profound book review from Toko-pa – containing several useful links – on the archetype and meanings of the Death Mother:- ‘If you were the child of a mother crippled by her own … Continue reading →
Posted in body psychotherapy, child development, childhood abuse, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, consciousness, creativity, cultural questions, Disconnection, dying, Eating, embodiment, emotions, fear, growth, healing, identity, loneliness, metaphor & dream, perception, physical being, power and powerlessness, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, sleep, suicide, Toko-pa, trauma, vulnerability
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Tagged abandoning ourselves, abandoning yourself, abandonment, aliveness, ambiguity, archetype, assertion, authentic experience, authentic feelings, authenticity, auto-immune diseases, awareness, beauty, being unseen, belittling of the feminine, belonging, Bud Harris, child development, chronic fatigue, chronic pain, collapse, confusion, consciousness, cultural collective, cultural shadow, cultural wound, cultural wounding, Daniela Sieff, death, Death Mother, denigration, depression, devaluation, devaluation of feminine, disapproval, disconnection, disconnection from body, disembodied, disembodiment, dreaming, dreams, dreams and metaphor, dreamwork, earth mother, eating disorders, emotional heritage, emotional paralysis, emotional trauma, engaging with our dreams, expression, fear and overwhelm, fear of abandonment, fear of masculine, fear of men, feminine fear, feminine mistrust, feminine values, feminine wound, finding your voice, grief, grief process, grieving process, growth, healing trauma, inertia, inner valuation, internalised belief, Into the Heart of the Feminine, invalidation, Jungian analysis, longing for death, longing for oblivion, low self esteem, Marion Woodman, Massimilla Harris, Medusa myth, motherhood, mothering, myth, myth and symbol, needing support, order from chaos, out of awareness, overwhelm, overwhelming, paradox, paralysing energy, paralysis, personal shadow, physical expressions of loss of inner valuation, psyche, rejection, repulsion, sacred feminine, Self, self care, self concept, self harm, self neglect, self-abdication, self-structure, shadow, something is wrong with me, suicide, symbolic life, symbolism, Toko-pa, transformation, triggers, trusting yourself, Understanding and Healing Emotional Trauma, unwanted aspects of self, unworthiness, women, wounded psyche, yin
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Woven By Lidia Yuknavitch
https://www.guernicamag.com/features/woven/ Stunning piece of writing, by Lidia, weaving folk tale and metaphor around a deeply personal narrative. Don’t miss it. Two themes that comes up regularly in the therapy room and supervision at this service:- how expressive, transformative and healing … Continue reading →
Posted in 'evil', childhood abuse, conditions of worth, congruence, consciousness, emotions, feminine, grief, growth, guilt, human condition, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, loss, love, masculine, meaning, metaphor & dream, parenting, perception, power and powerlessness, reality, relationship, resilience, risk, sadness & pain, self, self concept, shadow, shame, spirituality, teaching, transformation, trauma, trust, violence, vulnerability
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Tagged adverse life experience, affordable counselling exeter, consciousness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, element of water, emotional process, fairy stories, fairy tales, fairytales, feminine, folktale, grief, growth, Guernica, Guernica Magazine, guilt, human condition, identity, James Baldwin, Laume, Lidia Yuknavitch, Lithuania, loss, low cost counselling exeter, marriage, masculine, metaphor, motherhood, myth, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, parenting, person centred counselling exeter, punishment, relationship, response to pain, responsibility, Self, self concept, shame, spirits, storytelling, symbol, teaching, transformation, trauma, violence, water spirit, Woven, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk
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