HORÓ Psychotherapy - Aleksandra Staneva, PhD

15/04/2026

The 🐈‍⬛ Archetype
Just sit for a moment and allow yourself to be impacted by the presence of a cat. Let it roam and dwell around …

What do you notice?
What’s your embodied experience?
What does your mind say…?
How does your heart feel?
Does the cat come to you?
Does it pierce through your soul with his emerald eyes?
Does an electric ⚡️ wave buzz through your spine?
Do you melt?
Do you soften or activate?

Allow yourself to have an experience with cat magic.

The cat for me represents a part of the psyche that is instinctive, independent, and deeply in touch with the body, but often pushed away because it does not follow rules or meet expectations.

And what important wisdom!

Do cats show up in your dreams? Don’t ignore that.
What aspects of your psyche are asking to be seen?

With whiskers of joy,
Aleks

04/04/2026

17/03/2026

As Jung noted our greatest Shadow issue is not that we are evil, but that we tend to live lives too small for our souls’ more capacious horizons.

For it is not only darkness that we banish to the margins of the psyche, but brilliance. Those vast, luminous parts of us that tremble with life and ask more than we feel permitted to give…

We make ourselves smaller in quiet, almost invisible ways, folding our longing into something digestible, trimming desire until it fits the narrow corridors of safety and approval. And so the loss is not dramatic, but aching in its subtlety: a dimming, a quiet refusal of the soul’s wild amplitude. To turn toward the shadow, then, is not merely to face what is feared, but to gather back what is radiant ☀️ to risk the fullness of one’s own aliveness, and to step, at last, into a life that can hold it.

Who are you when not shrunk by trauma? Paradoxically as trauma shrinks us and keeps us living a constricted life, it is often our wounds that open the doors to our gifts too.

We are all in service to a larger life.

a.

27/02/2026

“…standing at a campsite without water, I realise how little guidance those stories offer for this moment: an older woman, walking alone, in a body altered not by injury or catastrophe but by age and hormonal change, facing a decision where stopping is neither dramatic, nor redemptive – just sensible.

The question my body is asking now is something my reading has not prepared me for: not how far should I push myself, but why is this still important to me?”

Deep reflections on ♥️ positive failure ♥️

Rachael Mead’s body once carried her across Antarctic ice sheets. At 55, she set out to reclaim her resilience – and what she discovered was surprising.
👉 https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-i-thought-a-5-day-solo-hike-would-reclaim-a-lost-self-my-menopausal-body-had-other-plans-275315?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook =1772167566

26/02/2026

19/02/2026

🌙 ENCOUNTERS WITH THE SHADOW 🌙
LOOKING WHERE WE DON’T WANT TO LOOK

This women’s circle is a courageous descent into the wild underworld of the psyche, into the disowned, shamed, instinctual, and powerful aspects of ourselves we learned to exile in order to belong.

Encounters with the Shadow invites an honest turning toward what we would rather not know: the rage beneath compliance, the grief beneath competence, the longing beneath perfection, the fierce life force beneath silence.

In depth, dignity, and containment, we will meet what was banished, and discover that within the shadow lives vitality, authority, creativity, and soul.

This is an intimate and deeply personal experience.
10 women only (6spots left)
27 July 2026
Monday 5.30-7.30pm Annerley

For all details and registration:
Email horoforwomen@gmail.com

Aleksandra 🌖

18/02/2026

🥰🫶🏻♥️😊 IFS

10/02/2026

This! Is. The. Best. Thing I have seen since the beginning of the global war against love, kinship, unity, acceptance, respect, connection, truth, and light. I am soooo glad to see and be reminded that THIS IS WHO WE TRULY ARE AS HUMANS. We care, we support, we include, we repair, we heal, we help, we reach out to one another and at the core of all of us there is kindness.

Thank you Bad Bunny for reminding us of what truly matters and to stay true to our roots is the way to truly belong.

As a triple immigrant I know this is my bones.
🇧🇬 🇺🇸 🇦🇺

08/02/2026

She says, “Nothing is wrong.”

The kids are fine.
The marriage is steady.
Work is good.

And yet, something is off.

Not a crisis.
A whisper.

A thin wind moving through her ribs that says, you have outgrown this skin.

The soul does not only speak through breakdown.
She speaks through restlessness.
Through quiet dissatisfaction.
Through the subtle ache of a life that fits… but no longer expands.

Like a plant pressing against the edges of its pot, life keeps growing. It does not apologise. It does not justify. It reaches.

That “off” feeling is not nothing.
It is initiation.

If you are not in crisis but feel the tremor of more, listen.

The whisper is holy.
It is your wild soul asking for a wider sky.

It’s your soul asking for expression. For meaning.

⭕️

29/01/2026

This might be my favorite of them all, certainly the one I return to most often when I lose perspective in the quagmire of complaint. As always, find it as a solo print and part of the deck of 100, along with the story and process behind them, at https://almanacofbirds.org