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psychology of metaphor

Metaphor’s terrain is the spiritual realm of the inner life

December 3, 2021

No matter our culture or upbringing, metaphor helps us process our inner world. At any given time, we may be “on fire,” “stuck,” “in over our heads,” “overwhelmed,” “burnt out,” or “in flow.”  Metaphor helps us understand how we’re feeling and thus, better navigate our lives. What is not so well known is that metaphor [ Read more … ]

Uncovering the image that’s guiding your actions

February 24, 2021

Each of us has a primary metaphoric image that gives life to and feeds our passions and gifts. These primary images usually come from childhood, and they’re often associated with that natural world. My metaphoric image is of my father and grandfather planting in their farm fields. One of my students who grew up in [ Read more … ]

Metaphor, Martin Foss, and the creative process

February 15, 2021

The present is not a phase in time. It is the tension by which past and future are metaphorically united and overcome. ~ Martin Foss   Ten years after I completed the Ph.D., I was speaking to the president of a graduate school about teaching courses for his doctoral students in Depth Psychology. I didn’t have [ Read more … ]

Meeting the Divine as an equal

January 7, 2021

In doorway sessions, clients discover their unique relationship with Spirit–the unique way that Spirit wants to work with them. Because our ultimate assignment is to become Spirit’s dance partner. But in order to be that dance partner, we have to be our full selves. We have to show up as an equal. We don’t just [ Read more … ]

Aligning with the Deep Creative

May 17, 2019

Picasso famously said that every act of creation begins with an act of destruction. We live within a creative process…a creative process that is continually destroying and transforming our man-made things, relationships, and institutions. It’s as if the Universe is in a continual process of “making” and we are its ingredients. We’re part of the [ Read more … ]

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