The Stages of Change Model was originally developed 30 years ago by psychology researchers James Prochaska and Carlo Di Clemente* to address addiction behaviours. But it has become transtheoretical in its application across many motivations toward change.

What I like about it is that it first appears as a series of steps (simple and appealing for the logical mind that likes straight causal lines! - but it’s a trick!). But, just like the cycle of initiation, The Transtheoretical Stages of Change is at its core, a non-linear and spiral process. 

… Remember, you cannot hold all of the Initiated Woman Archetype. She represents the energies of all the selves and others who have been INITIATED - who have gone through Passages, been transformed by the process, and have entered into - begun a new phase of life.

Back in 2019 ~ 2020 - I didn’t know it then, but I was crossing my major mid-life threshold. Popular culture would call it a “midlife crisis”, but that term has become an unhelpful stereotype that’s linked to scrambling for lost youth, and men with red sports cars. I’ve found out that for women, mid-life is shrouded in shame, mystery, misinformation, denial or fear. However, I’ve come to experience my time here to be vital and transformative.

My invitation is for you to tend to your world and experiences through imagination.

When I work with people - 1:1 or in groups - I’m guiding them to explore this way, and value this way of knowing. I do this by encouraging sensing into the body, and using tools or other stimuli like old stories, anecdotal evidence including personal stories, the tarot, and dreams to activate the imagination. Or like I’ve shared today  - noticing what’s coming forward in your world. 

​Having “other mothers” and “other fathers” means that we are not so reliant on the prototype of a nuclear family to have all of our needs met.

This is a place you return to regularly, so that over time you know it and it also knows you. So you notice the small and grand shifts of season, weather, occupants.

Androgyny is about de-identifying as one or the other - to do away with duality - more both-and. To heal the divide that happens between these opposing forces, you can start by acknowledging how the split lives within you, and acts through you.

This describes a non-linear process of thinking or extra-cognition, as opposed to linear or hierarchical thinking that’s valued by science and modern systems. While thinking based on Western traditions might consider this way as disconnected from reality, for indigenous people this was a constant state of being. It just was

It can be more meaningful and accessible to sync with the smaller ebbs and flows of natural cycles. More regular honouring, review and reflection may offer ways to ensure energy and action is expressed in more meaningful and sustainable ways.

What Myss is suggesting here is that we don’t choose to step on the spiritual path or a journey of transformation…

We’re a little more than a week into the new year, a time that much of the world celebrates the turning point of an old year into the new…

Some time ago, I wrote a piece on using Breathe as Resource, as an inner resource that you can immediately turn to and utilise to help calm or activate your energy and recalibrate your nervous system…

I’ve been thinking quite a bit about death lately. I can see this has come about as in my regular mortal life I’m feeling my ageing for a number of reasons…

Today I’m going to *touch* on what is a pretty big topic. At least it is for me personally, and seems to be big for the people that come to me for therapy, guidance or healing…

In an earlier topic where I wrote about the Window of Tolerance, I talked about how moving out of reactive arousal states of fight /flight/freeze or collapse, requires…

One of the most powerful resources we have on our journey towards becoming conscious and living a soul-led life, lives in our capacity to notice and really see what is happening before us…

One of the most helpful things I teach my clients when they first arrive (or not too long after) is what’s going on energetically when they’re experiencing big emotions…

I recently listened to an interview with Jungian analyst James Hollis, discussing his new book on resilience. It was one of those interviews that was rich with wisdom and you could certainly listen to it over again, and come away with something new and pertinent to present-moment-life each time…

I've had a morning ritual for about 10 years. To wake up and have my own little system in place became something that I just had to do. For the longest time, it was non-negotiable…

The first 2 parts of this blog series were about laying foundations for doing the practical stuff that I’m going to share with you today. So far I’ve described…