Honoring Rites of Passage
At times we find ourselves at a place in which we don’t know how to get out or even how we arrived there in the first place. We feel stuck, maybe scared, angry, despairing. And this may be a place that we seem to keep returning to, where we find ourselves ending-up again and again. This place may be a “wrong” relationship, a sense of hopelessness or criticalness of ourselves or life. This may be a place of anger or negativity in how we view the world, a sense of feeling lost (again), out of balance, out of integrity with our deepest truths.
This is a place of the Rite of Passage, where we pass through the darkness of the unknown, the difficult, the deep feeling, and come out to another place –a newness, a new pattern, new view, new sense of self– truer each time.
Yet, it takes a consciousness of this passage, this transformation, to make it affective. There is a need of honoring this time and allowing the process to work through fully –listening, witnessing and being attentive to what is clearing away and what is unfolding anew.
Some of my areas of expertise are with the issues of:
- addictions
- powerlessness (confusion, depression)
- lonliness (feeling misunderstood, struggling to belong)
- self-esteem (self image and body image)
- anger (sources, solutions)
- identifying and verbalizing feelings
- trauma recovery
- decision making (responsibility,
independence/individuation) - relationships
