Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “Kill the imagination and you kill the soul. Kill the soul and you’re left with a listless, apathetic creature who can become hopeless or brutal or both.”(Woodman, 2000, p. 165) “Thinking about passion and the dark feminine and how they are related to creativity and healing. This relationship is […]
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Body and Soul
Reflections from Bone:Dying into Life by Marion Woodman “One thing I learned yet again is the power of nature to heal.” (Woodman, 2000, p. 141) “The soul is not in the body, the body is in the soul. -Hildegard Bingen” (Woodman, 2000, p. 141) “Nature was not there to enfold her children. Some of us […]
How we lost touch with soul.
Before the “how” let’s consider the “when”. Also, let me point out that I am aware that I am speaking predominantly about those of us who grew up in the western world of thought. (When I think of “Western” world I often contemplate the idea that the concept of “west” implies some other place that […]
Defining Soul. Part 2
The following is taken from my dissertation titled “Tending Aging Souls Through Connection with the Natural World: A Depth-ecopsychological Study” (Bridge, 2018). Soul In order to tend the aging soul, we must have an understanding of what is meant by the word soul. It is a word that is often used and yet seldom […]
Defining Soul. Part 1
For my first post I thought it would be a good idea to define what I mean by the word soul. I have long been interested in understanding soul and that is probably what drew me to depth psychology. I remember sitting in a class at Pacifica Graduate Institute in 2012 with Dr. Joe […]
Soul Tending 