I’m marinating my brain with village things these days. My depth psychology therapist friends and I used to talk about cognitive behavioral therapy with a lot of disdain, discussing at length how the way we worked was just So Much More Superior. And then as I got further and further into the work of being a therapist, I found that without realizing it, I was a cognitive behavioral therapist at times. (Surprise, surprise, that binary broke down like all the rest.) The way I used it and loved it was that in order to change, we need to broaden our imagination about possibilities. And we don’t have to wait for them to be spontaneously born from inside us, which may or may not ever happen, we can bring them in from the outside and start to see what they bring up in us, what are the resistances, what do we do to block these beautiful directions. (Yes, this is one of the things depth psychology is really good at.)
village marination
village marination
village marination
I’m marinating my brain with village things these days. My depth psychology therapist friends and I used to talk about cognitive behavioral therapy with a lot of disdain, discussing at length how the way we worked was just So Much More Superior. And then as I got further and further into the work of being a therapist, I found that without realizing it, I was a cognitive behavioral therapist at times. (Surprise, surprise, that binary broke down like all the rest.) The way I used it and loved it was that in order to change, we need to broaden our imagination about possibilities. And we don’t have to wait for them to be spontaneously born from inside us, which may or may not ever happen, we can bring them in from the outside and start to see what they bring up in us, what are the resistances, what do we do to block these beautiful directions. (Yes, this is one of the things depth psychology is really good at.)