Soul Connections

As we are being asked to ‘keep a distance’ from others, we have paradoxically never felt so connected. We need each other, we send messages of support, we set up online connections like never before. In the loneliness of the social distancing, we have realised what is important.

Most of us know what the Shadow is, and everyone will know who Eve was but who or what is the Wounded Feminine? She is, of course an archetype of both the collective and personal unconscious. As a Jungian therapist of thirty years and a seasoned wounded woman, I can […]

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It is our sense of abandonment that constellates our Inner Orphan. The orphan is propelled by a deep need to find home, a home being a place of belonging, or soul group. Indeed, the search to belong is so basic in us as to be archetypal. We may not be actual physical orphans in the ‘real’ world but many of us feel that we are psychological or emotional orphans. We may feel that we are not connected to our birth family or to the tribe or culture we have been born into. We feel different, as though we don’t belong somehow…..

Despite the best will in the world, simply uncovering our wounds does not guarantee healing, because healing is a matter of the heart involving love, acceptance and surrender.