A Hades-dominant inner father is one who remains outside of the experiences at hand. Hades prefers his underworld state. This can look to us like depression, social isolation, deep contemplation, avoidance, or even cleverness as a disguise for intimacy avoidance.
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Why is my anger not going away? Why do I sabotage my relationships? Why don’t I feel like I am ever enough? When questions like these arise, we can look to the archetypal figure of Poseidon for further understanding.
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Weekly Theme: Poseidon - Barn Life Recovery
If Zeus belongs to others we may never rightfully oversee the psychological life within us. To put it another way, if Zeus is not, in part, a way of thinking for ourselves because his energy is projected elsewhere, how can we begin to gain a vantage point above and engage in healthy, virtuous motives within our own lives?
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/lightning-innocence-zeus-and-olympus/
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Lightning Innocence: Zeus and Olympus - Barn Life Recovery
Fathers may rely heavily on the “right answers” to maintain their reign. Cronos/Saturn fathering often relies on the old wisdom to confront and swallow the new imagination. However, it may rob children of the chance to explore their own identities.
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-archetypal-images-of-the-father/
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Weekly Theme: Archetypal Images of the Father - Barn Life Recovery
From Freud to now, psychology has been dominated in large part by the reconciliation of childhood experiences with presenting problems in adult life. After all, is it not the inner child we hail supreme in psychotherapy?
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Weekly Theme: Introduction to Parent Models - Barn Life Recovery
Sitting at the top of our head, the crown chakra exposes our capacity for a pure conscious relationship with a universal whole. Rather than the differentiated emotional and sensory worlds of the lower and bodily chakras, the crown hosts our blissful or transcendental selves.
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Weekly Theme: the Crown Chakra - Barn Life Recovery
Rather than to think, to embrace, to transform, instead mothering may replace maturing to the point in which avoidance results. Simply put, mother is not the feminine. Conversely, the feminine is not the mother. To be without relationship, held, suspended is but one of the characteristics of the maturing feminine.
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-the-great-momism-of-psychotherapy/
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Weekly Theme: The Great Momism of Psychotherapy - Barn Life Recovery
This week, we will be spending time at the warm fire of Hestia. An odd and important figure of the Greek pantheon, Hestia is never found in sculptures of ancient Greece. She never conquers anyone or anything and always remains a virgin. Her symbols are the hearth or central fire of the home and the circle.
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Weekly Theme: Hestia and the Hearth - Barn Life Recovery
In Aphrodite, we see that she bathes and this produces newness. A better translation uses the word, “refreshment”. Interesting to think of love in terms of beauty rather than sacrifice or lust. If we experience love by the Greek sense of the word, we are in the refreshing presence of what is beautiful, what is felt, and what is embodied.
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Weekly Theme: Aphrodite - Barn Life Recovery | Love Life Again
This week we explore the qualities of Athena. Namely, her hero-favoring nature and her commanding and tempered presence. With Athena, we accomplish our goals with spear-pointed precision and our vulnerabilities are well armored and protected.
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Weekly Theme: Athena - Barn Life Recovery | Love Life Again
Someone once told me, “I love Halloween because it’s the one day that it’s okay to not be myself”. The eventual understanding was that the self this person actually chose to be was always an aspect of themselves. However, it was one they were afraid to show, or desired to embrace but felt unworthy of, or too insecure to fulfill. I wonder what costumes you wore?
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-shadows-and-halloween/
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Weekly Theme: Shadows and Halloween - Barn Life Recovery
It goes without saying that this year presents a difficult task for all of us. We all have questions about our place in this world. How does the vocation of healers come into contact with the evolving and unpredictable circumstances of a global pandemic?
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Weekly Theme: Shadow and Vulnerability - Barn Life Recovery
Emerson reminds us that gratitude can become habitual. He heralds the role of gratitude in the perspective of advancement. I say we fall on a broad spectrum in regard to our gratitude.
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Weekly Theme: Gratitude - Barn Life Recovery | Love Life Again
Fear is part of the human experience and unanimously felt. However, our fears are also deeply personal and rooted in lived experiences. We believe there is a threat to be feared. We believe this whether the threat is physical, such as fear of physical pain or death, or emotional, such as fear of the pain of humiliation or abandonment.
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/weekly-theme-fear-and-self-doubt/
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Weekly Theme: Fear and Self-Doubt - Barn Life Recovery
No person who comes to Barn Life to heal is a stranger to grief and loss. Whether it be a physical death or loss of relationships or even the feeling of disconnection, we all experience having to endure the process of grief.
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Weekly Theme: Grief and Loss - Barn Life Recovery
Our future selves are the grand total of everything we are and are doing in the present moment. And because this person is always one step ahead, it can be very difficult to show them the kindness and respect they deserve.
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Weekly Theme: Our Future Selves - Barn Life Recovery
This week’s theme is going to focus on two things. First, we want to encourage everyone to take a 21 Day Challenge, which we will be explaining below. Second, we want to focus on how to reach people in a way that is memorable and that will follow them outside of Barn Life’s gates.
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Something we want to encourage this week is to make room for the budding of unique esteem inside of every one of us. Rather than highlight inadequacies, failure, and character defects, let us instead look to the unique genius of the soul to lead the way.
https://www.barnliferecovery.com/nurturing-the-unique-genius-of-the-soul/
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Nurturing the Unique Genius of the Soul - Barn Life Recovery
When we use typology and work with the 8 functions to understand ourselves and our patients, we open the darkened caverns of inferior and unconscious functions.
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Typology: Archetypal Insight and Interpersonal Understanding - Barn Life Recovery
This week we will be starting a 4-week series on dream work and dream tending. Freud and Jung both played a significant role in the depth psychological emphasis on the importance of dreams and dream work. However, their orientation to dream function and analysis are distinctly different.
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Introduction to Dream Work - Barn Life Recovery | Love Life Again
