Writings
Here, you will find a collection of my writings over the years, on Body, Soul and Depth Work.
I am currently sharing my longer, deeper writing on the Substack platform, through my publication, The Yellowing Therapist. I invite you to join me and a community of fellow seekers, there -you can simply read my posts or subscribe by email to receive them in your inbox as soon as they are published.
The Blog
The Journey of Life through the Lens of Alchemy
IMAGINING LIFE PERIODS AS ALCHEMICAL STAGES
Alchemy, as a symbolic language, offers a lens through which we can explore and deeply understand many -if not all- aspects of life. Carl Jung recognised in Alchemy a map and metaphor for the process of analysis/psychotherapy and the journey of Individuation; the alchemical tradition became the historical basis for his depth psychology.
What if we look at Life itself through the lens of Alchemy?
Plutonian Initiations
A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON PLUTO’S 16-YEAR TRANSIT THROUGH CAPRICORN.
When Pluto first entered Capricorn in late January of 2008,
I was on a flight back from Thailand,
barely alive.
At the heights (or depths) of my eating disorder,
having completely exhausted my physical body,
through my addiction to disembodied ascension,
I had to leave the yoga teacher training I had travelled across the world to take,
less than halfway through,
to save my life.
Healing the Split between the Artist and the Scientist
REFLECTIONS ON ATTENDING AN ALCHEMY CONFERENCE
Last weekend, I got to attend a conference offered by the London Arts-Based Research Centre on the topic of “Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research”.
Yes -an entire conference dedicated to Alchemy! You can imagine my joy and enthusiasm, when I found out about it, which only grew as I fully immersed myself in the alchemical field (quite palpable, even via the internet) for hours on end.
What images are asking to be composted in your life?
Living fully a l i v e asks that we are willing to sacrifice (shred, recycle, compost) images of ourselves and versions of our future we have held onto, often, so very tightly and for the longest time, to allow those that truly carry Z o e ; life force, libido, Shakti energy, to emerge.
If the last couple of years has taught me anything, this is it.
Dance is medicine
I’ve danced more in the last six months than I had in years.
Not because I wanted to, but because I had to.
Not because these have been the greatest, happiest months of my life, but because they have been the toughest I’ve ever lived through.
Who are you becoming?
An invitation to reflect on the identities, roles and patterns that you are personally releasing, under the influence of the eclipse, and to intuit what part of yourself life is calling to be claimed, embodied, stepped into.
My Lineage: Psyche - Soma - Soul
I deeply believe that our background says so much about who we are and what we do, so, today I want to name the three major traditions that I bring together in my work and honour the teachers I have been blessed to study with and be formed by.
The nature of my work: embodied, alchemical soul work
In my practice, I bring together a number of elements from different traditions and modalities, so it hasn’t always been easy to accurately describe and define the nature of it. Recently though, through exploration, I have landed in these words: Embodied, Alchemical Soul Work, which I really feel encapsulate the core and essence of it.
On the Alchemical Process of Dissolution
D i s s o l u t i o n
…is the stage in alchemy in which a solid substance turns into liquid.
At a psyche/soul level, it is the process of letting those parts of ourselves that have served their purpose and now cause more harm than good be released, “melt”, dissolve into their original substance -the ‘prima materia’.