A personal reflection on how astrology and depth psychology meet within the shared language of symbolism, offering new ways to understand psyche, relationship, and meaning.

I am now offering Art Psychotherapy for adults in Abergavenny, from a lovely space at Your Healing Rooms , conveniently located in the...

I offer both Art Psychotherapy, and Mentoring / Coaching sessions. There are many similarities and overlaps, for a start, in all my work with people I am interested in the life of the soul, and how difficulties or challenges can be guides and openings to depth, meaning, and transformation. Or in other words, the lifelong task of becoming yourself. However, Mentoring and Psychotherapy are not the same thing, and it is important to understand how they differ. There are many dif

"If there is ever to be any real peace on earth, all people need to relearn and reestablish the now diminished and hidden arts of Grief...

As you can see from the condition of this book, it has lived a life. A sign of its importance to me during the past decade, and no doubt beyond. Pretending To Be Alive We may do the same work and do it well, but we may do it well in a way that does not engage our deeper powers in any real conversation, so that we lose any sense of personal edge. We may be admired in our work, but the admiration blinds and insulates us from the loss of something robust and lifelike inside us.

Important writing on imagination, by Gary Lachman . This book describes the various ways in which imagination has been (mis)understood,...

...in a world that is more often than not associated with a harsh and destructive bottom line." It's scary stuff! The Soul cares not for constraints, it has in its sights that which seeks to find expression through you, and demands the call is answered as best you can. Yet, the human being is caught between an insistence on creative freedom, and the Saturnian principles of limitation, whether they be personal, cultural, material. David Whyte describes the inner fire of creati

"Traveller there is no path. The path is made by walking." We might hear this excerpt from a poem by Antonio Machado in relation to feeling stuck, alone, or lost. These lines suggest that if there is a path ahead which seems clear and well-trodden (i.e. ‘easy’) then perhaps it is not your own path that you are walking. Even if we experience a deep certainty about the way, we might recognise challenging terrain ahead and fear to tread it. Alluding to the necessity for active p

This is the opening sentence of Thomas Moore's prologue. I thought that this book would make a good first post as I begin to describe some of the influences and inspirations for my work. This copy has been with me for the best part of twenty years, and it was one of the first 'psychology' books I owned. It is a little rough around the edges now, but I think Hillman would approve. He valued evidence of age, lines on a face, signs that life has been lived. I remember not having

The First Encounter I discovered the work of Carl Jung during my mid-late teens, when I plucked this text from a shelf in a local book shop. Having no idea at the time who this man was, or about psychoanalysis, I imagine I was attracted by the title. A Timely Passage in a Culture of Speed I find this following passage fascinating today, in a world where we must all be ever quicker to 'know'. Alluding to a way of working that seeks not to impinge upon the patient/client/analys

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