Ancestral Emotional Wounds (Part 3)

Is your life entangled with many of the common ancestral emotional wounds?  Do you feel your relationship with your mother and father is compassionate and loving (see Part 1 and Part 2 of this post) and yet you are still struggling or challenged in life in some way?  You may…

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Emotional Wounds for Men (Part 2)

As mentioned in Part 1 of this post, emotional wounds for men create life challenges that often reflect outstanding unresolved parental relationship issues from childhood.  I mentioned that there are five central systemic family entanglements that may emerge and impact you for life. It’s important to remember that you can…

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Emotional Wounds for Men (Part 1)

Let me discuss some of the common emotional wounds for men.  Life struggles often reflect outstanding unresolved parental relationship issues from childhood.  There are five central systemic family entanglements that may emerge and impact you for life: separation from mother; disconnection from father; merger with mother, father, or both; rejection…

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Relationship With Father

Healing the relationship with father is important to your wellbeing.  In my last post, I discussed how healing begins with understanding the underlying causes of mother’s emotional distance.  Now let’s take a look at the family dynamic when there is/was a disconnection with father, or to the contrary, the child…

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Where Healing Begins

Do you understand where healing begins?  Like most people, you’re quite aware when something is not right in your life.  You just want to know what can be done about it.  You’ve made the decision to begin your healing journey. Healing requires a desire for change and a willingness to…

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Radical Inclusion (Part 4)

When is it time for radical inclusion?  If you are struggling in life in some way, or you feel stuck and unable to move forward, sometimes this inertia has origins in your family system.  It’s time to take responsibility for your own wellbeing.  When family members suffer pain or trauma,…

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Radical Inclusion (Part 3)

Radical inclusion is a complex systemic family constellation concept.  When we take the time to acknowledge those who are energetically and emotionally missing from our own family system, we have the opportunity to gather valuable insight about our own lives.  As we gain compassion for the past and present experiences…

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Radical Inclusion (Part 2)

Are you aware of radical inclusion in your life? It’s been a long time since I was in the presence of a raven, but a couple days ago, as my sister and I completed a refreshing bike ride, we witnessed a huge black raven and a crow communicating back and…

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Radical Inclusion (Part 1)

I don’t know who coined the term, but I first learned about “radical inclusion” from a very talented German systemic constellation facilitator by the name of Albrecht Mahr.  Albrecht is a medical doctor who specializes in psychosomatic medicine, psychoanalysis, and systems therapy.  He’s been teaching systemic constellation work around the…

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Why The Butterfly?

A great deal of my healing work is the interpretation of language and symbolism. It’s my way of accessing the treasures buried within the unconscious mind and the natural world. Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to study several languages and I learned that the symbolism behind the words…

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