Violet’s Blog
Place and a Centred Heart
I’ve been thinking about the importance of grounding and place. When the relationship with mother is severed, when we experience traumatic early attachment, or profound grief and loss, we lose our connection to where we are rooted, where we feel belonging. Mother,...
Wholeheartedness
Our journey towards more conscious living is to become wholehearted about ourselves and our circumstances, accepting our full range of humanity – both in ourselves and in our community. Part of the heroic life journey, as CG Jung outlined, is to face into our shadow...
The Universal Journey
We are all the heroes or heroines of our personal journey through life. Our purpose is to live that journey fully, learning and growing along the way, and fulfilling the life tasks that facilitate psychological growth, as we move through stages of life. Where trauma...
The Internal River
I like what Vietnamese Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh has to say about transforming emotional pain into a rich, fertile, and joyous life. Whether it’s everyday stress or deep-rooted trauma, he writes: “We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and...
In the Dark Forest
Dante Alighieri’s classic The Divine Comedy reveals to us a path towards our own healing. Myths and stories can help us reflect on our own life path. He begins: When I had journeyed half of our life’s wayI found myself within a shadowy forest, for I had lost the path...
Starting Out
Psychologist Donald Winnicott famously said: Home is where we start from. He was referring to the need for the child to feel a secure base from which they feel safe enough to explore their world and be curious, returning to home for resourcing before venturing forth...