Tag: healing
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How Toxic Relationships Invade Your Mind: The Grasshopper Metaphor
Some time ago, I saw a video where a parasite affected a grasshopper’s perception to such an extent that the grasshopper jumped into water, where its body was abandoned by a worm. Really scary, isn’t it? But my first association was with specific clients or people I had met in my life. Because this scary…
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Day 5 after separation, or the moment when the psychological anaesthesia wears off
During the separation period, love, anger, pain, resentment, and indifference can fluctuate in an incomprehensible sequence, and sometimes these emotions and feelings can overwhelm a person all at once. In the first days after a painful breakup or divorce, people may experience a strange numbness — a strange, almost surreal calm that masks the intensity…
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Trauma Isn’t the End — It’s the Beginning of the Return
For many years, I believed that what happened to me in childhood defined me. That the silence, the responsibility, the fear I carried were proof of something broken inside me. But slowly, through deep work, I came to understand something else: Trauma isn’t the end of the story. It’s the beginning of the return. As…
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Death by a thousand paper cuts
An article about emotional abuse with insights into the consequences of psycho-emotional trauma, awareness, and healing. Unlike physical or sexual violence and the acute psycho-emotional trauma that follows, emotional abuse is not immediately noticeable, whereas physical violence is. Emotional abuse is also the most difficult to identify in therapy, as it can be completely hidden…
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How can we stop leaving our hearts behind closed doors?
Reflections after therapy sessions with younger clients. A Jungian perspective on the impact of emotions expressed on social media and communication networks on the activation of complexes and trauma in the human psyche. A topic has emerged about microtraumas caused by group interactions, which are increasingly being discussed in therapy. One of these is the…
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The Victim Archetype and the Path to Inner Freedom
When the harm and suffering we experienced are already in the past, but psychological pain continues every day, it signals that deeper inner work is needed. In Jungian analytical psychology, archetypes are primordial patterns filled with powerful emotional energy, stronger than the ego, and deeply rooted in the collective unconscious. They have a profound influence…
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When a Mother’s Love Recedes After the Birth of a Younger Sibling
In today’s sessions, I realized there’s an aspect of the Mother archetype that I haven’t written about enough. The Death Mother archetype and the emotional exile of the eldest child is a theme I encounter quite often in my practice. When a new baby enters the family, the eldest child often feels emotionally rejected. The…
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How relationships affects our wellbeing?
Sometimes statistics can be a very interesting thing. For example, scientists have tried to find out who is happier – a married man or a single woman? So, what do statistics and research tell us? The pursuit of happiness is a deeply personal journey influenced by various factors, including marital status. Recent studies have explored…
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A woman who has survived psycho-emotional trauma
There are women who appear calm and smiling on the outside, yet inside carry childhood pain – pain from a heart that has been broken too many times.They care for others, they are strong and helpful, but in their childhood or in their relationships, they were not heard, and their boundaries were not protected. Sadly,…
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What Within Me Is Ready to Bloom?
Each spring, nature awakens from its sleep with quiet yet undeniable power. Beneath the thawing earth, seeds stir. Buds form on branches. Rivers begin to flow again. Within this annual miracle lies a question that stirs not only soil, but soul: What within me is ready to bloom? This question is not a demand for…
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