Body work is soul work. Imagination is the bridge between body and soul. To have healing power, an image needs to be taken into our body on our breath. Only then can the image connect with the life force. Only then can things change. -Marion Woodman Coming Home to Myself
Author: miresistencia
salted sun forest dew deep roots. De la luna~
Women’s Mysteries: The Threshold Stage
Last Thursday I felt my body ushering me into my threshold time. Threshold means at the edge. In this case, I use the word to mean being in-between two different ways of being. One way is active, initiating, directed, this is called the follicular stage, the time of month when our sex energy is ovulatory…
The Real Work
Sitting in the auto shop waiting Here are the women: 3 beside me, a divorcee and a mother daughter pair And the daughter says the sweetest thing to the divorcee about her eyes The divorcee’s heart crack fills this room & this is the myth us gals must dispel That we are here to work…
Some days …
More than others There’s something About the smell
When spirituality stops working
In 2010, I resigned from my job at a community college because of burn out. For two years I had worked with a very small team to establish educational programs for adults in rural and often very poor communities on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. We covered hundreds of miles each week in four counties and started…
Katrina
She is the wisdom We hide On our dark side The wisdom Like the moon That goes dead Just to be reborn
At the library
Amazing to me How much joy Out on a simple walk And, for free~
Without suffering
Without the suffering, which seems the requisite for psychological and spiritual maturation, one would remain unconscious, infantile and dependent. Yet many of our addictions, ideological attachments and neuroses are flights from suffering. James Hollis I ask my self fragment the Unconscious aspects in which I ~between~ remain: is he toxic or stimulating? Both. It…
Lunar Beltane, Depth Psychology, Sex and Fertility
I study depth psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California. It’s fascinating. Depth psychology was pioneered by Carl Jung. It explores the unconscious aspects of the psyche. Depth perspective considers the deeper levels of your unconscious as the primary factors that rule your life. Also, much of the time, it is this very area…
Wild Women Wisdom 