Annelisa

There are times when psychologically defending against certain feelings can be the most skillful way to handle our lives. For example, if...

Depression has lowered its heavy weight over me periodically since I was a child, but never has there been a period in my 65 years in...

The sickening feeling of ingratitude creeps into my life slowly and inconspicuously. It manifests in subtle ways, like a feeling of...

I’m starting to get that it’s not so much about whether I need to or even can extricate myself from the developmental-cultural-historical...

How we perceive and experience emotions and somatic cycles, how inner processes of awareness unfold is unique to each person. I find I am...

In my work I am frequently, unintentionally asked to carry the projection of a client’s inner healer, which they have lost touch with, a...

I am walking more in the early mornings now. Today appears to be another ordinary Wednesday, on the face of it. Summer and Fall are in a...

In times of transition, my natural tendency is to rush to the rebirth, to move quickly toward re-establishing a newer version of what is...

– by Mary Oliver If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns...

Usually when I talk about parts of the psyche that have been disowned, parts that have been relegated to “the shadow” I’m referring to...

There is a death that occurs as part of any healing process. When I deepen into self-awareness, some part of what was “me” does not...

Adapted from the writings of Lone Wolf, Aletheia Luna Spiritual bypassing is a very persistent shadow of spirituality, manifesting in...

“Tantra is an Eastern philosophy which posits that the universe is created by and made up of masculine (Shiva) and feminine (Shakti)...

Have you ever heard someone say that fear is the opposite of love? I have often nodded in agreement to that statement, without really...

By John Milton WHEN I consider how my light is spent E’re half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death...