A Poseidon Analogy: Anger Management Therapy
Poseidon: The Ancient Greek God of Anger Management? Throughout our years of doing work at Barn Life Recovery, we have seen many patients...
Read MoreThe Nurturing Father Figure: A Zeus Analogy
The Father Figures of Greek Mythology As we begin our work with the Olympian Gods Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades, it is important to...
Read MoreA Soulful Look at Myth & Fairytale
"Magical consciousness has to accommodate shadows or it has immediately made its potency finite. Some vital energy is drained from us when we disconnect...
Read MoreThe Father Archetype
The Father Archetype Uranus once ruled as the god of the skies. With Gaia (Mother Earth), Uranus is the primal father archetype and force...
Read MoreThe Third Eye Chakra: The Gateway to Spiritual Awareness
All Chakras Root Sacral Solar Plexus Heart Throat Crown The third eye chakra, or ajna in Sanskrit, is the sixth chakra, responsible for our...
Read MoreBody and Psyche: Healing the Divide
Well, we made it! Starting this week Barn Life programs are officially on campus! I thought it an interesting experiment as we connected through...
Read MoreAlbedo Alchemy
Albedo Alchemy: Purification Through Light Albedo alchemy is the second stage major stage of magnum opus. Following the decomposition of the nigredo comes...
Read MoreA Deeper Look at the Nigredo
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here!" – Dante, Inferno, Canto 3 This morning, while writing on the Nigredo, I ordered a...
Read MoreA New Relationship With Fear
Here at Barn Life Recovery, we receive a lot of inquiries from folks dealing with anxiety. And a couple weeks ago, a blog of...
Read MoreNarcissus and the Psyche
Narcissus and the Psyche Early in my depth-psychological studies, I was drawn to the artwork of John William Waterhouse. His paintings capture the...
Read MoreNational Mental Health Awareness Month
May is National Mental Health Awareness Month and it couldn’t come at a better time. In some parts of the country, shelter-in-place orders are...
Read MoreThe Three Marriages and Marriage to Others
What makes up a marriage? Is it an outdated construct that reflects religious themes and rejects the instinctual nature of our existence? Some may...
Read MoreMarriage to the Self
I wish I knew the beauty Of leaves Falling To whom are we beautiful As we go? A Parable There once lives a king,...
Read MoreThe Connection Between the Soul and Work
An Early Memory When I no more than 6 or 7 years old, I often played the role of witness to the family. As...
Read MoreThe Common Threads of Life
Existential Angst During the Pandemic Dr. James Hillman once said that our modern culture worships two gods above the rest: economy and psychology. Today,...
Read MoreMental Health and the COVID-19 Pandemic
A New Set of Problems Social distancing is helping to slow the spread of COVID-19 and without an antidote or vaccine, it’s currently one...
Read MoreUncertainty, Impermanence, and Pema Chodron
Calming Words in a Time of Groundlessness Uncertainty continues to grow and expand and deepen around us, creating perhaps, its own virus, a virus...
Read MoreThe Heroic Archetype and the Human Beneath
Removing the Armor We took the time last week to explore the role of the heroic archetype at work in the therapeutic process. In...
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