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Sacred Mother

Sacred, complex, and emotionally powerful, the Mother Archetype is the most influential pattern in the collective unconscious. Consequently, relationships with mothers often feel fraught.

Second in a new series, The Mother, at The Third Eve.

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Quoting Saint Augustine

“What have I to do with men, that they should hear my confessions, as if they were to “heal all my diseases?” A race eager to know about another man’s life, but slothful to correct their own!” Saint Augustine
Happiness

There’s research on happiness. Researchers have made a case for identifiable happiness markers. The more of these happiness-making qualities we possess or cultivate, the happier we feel.
The Karma of Leaving

Show me the way in which the child was left, and I will show you the way in which that child grows up and later leaves others and ultimately leaves himself.
Great Mother

I’ve written about what can happen when a child’s need for balanced containment and nurturance are not met in the family of origin, and they grow up uncontained, unprotected, and without adequate nurture.
Container

Our astounding capacities for healing are what can save us.
Baaaad Behavior

Uppity people can’t cherish their superiority privately. They’re compelled to share it in every way. They talk uppity. They act uppity. They leave no doubt in your mind as to just how remarkable they are.
Middle-Aged Women

Middle-aged women care about other women: little girls, young women, thirty-somethings who know it all, forty-somethings who doubt it all, other middle-aged women who carry it all, and grannies who have endured it all.
The Power of Being Yourself

The best and most human parts of me are those I have inhabited and hidden from the world. — Elia Kazan
Magical Memory

Dowling’s gift for art was overlooked by his parents and teachers alike. When he brought his gift into the classroom, it was not merely ignored, but also ridiculed. This is the fate of so many artistic, creative, and brilliant children.
What is Love?

Love is the power within us that affirms and values another human being as he or she is.
Why We Read

Writers enlarge us by giving us lives that are bigger than they would be otherwise.
I Need a Hero

In depth psychology, we talk often and at length about the hero’s quest, also known as the vision quest, the monomyth, or simply the Quest, which leads to wholeness.