Inner Vision Psychotherapy

19/08/2025

Jung taught that the psyche is not a solitary island, but a web of relations. What feels impossible alone becomes possible in the shared field of connection. He said, “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.’”

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09/08/2025

Liv & Ingmar, 2012

08/08/2025

Today a client asked about the significance of today’s 8/8 Lions Gate:

The “Lions Gate” draws from Ancient Egyptian astronomy. Around early August, Sirius (the brightest star in our sky) rises just before the Sun after being invisible for about 70 days. Sirius is often called a “spiritual Sun,” representing higher knowledge, illumination, and truth. In astrology, Leo season is tied to courage, creativity, and the heart. 8/8 in numerology carries symbolism as the number 8 is linked to power, balance, and material/energetic flow.

You don’t have to believe in cosmic portals to use the date as a turning point, but in a culture that lacks ritual process to mark time and transformation why not make today an opportunity to reflect on some of these questions:
🍓Where am I showing up as my full self?

📍Where am I hiding?

🍒 What or who gets my “yes” for the rest of the year?

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28/07/2025

A man told me once that all the bad people
Were needed. Maybe not all, but your fingernails
You need; they are really claws, and we know
Claws. The sharks—what about them?
They make other fish swim faster. The hard-faced men
In black coats who chase you for hours
In dreams—that’s the only way to get you
To the shore. Sometimes those hard women
Who abandon you get you to say, “You.”
A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed.
It doesn’t move on its own. It takes sometimes
A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.
Then they blow across three or four States.
This man told me that things work together.
Bad handwriting sometimes leads to new ideas;
And a careless God—who refuses to let you
Eat from the Tree of Knowledge—can lead
To books, and eventually to us. We write
Poems with lies in them, but they help a little.

—Robert Bly, Bad People

25/07/2025

25/07/2025

Our parents cannot not give us what they cannot give themselves.

This is not just a personal sorrow — it is ancestral. A wound passed down through generations, each doing what they could with what they were given. And yet, in every one of us, there remains an unspoken longing for the archetypal Mother and Father. The Divine Mother who nurtures unconditionally. The Divine Father who sees, affirms and calls us forward.

Carl Jung wrote, “What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents… have not lived.”

We are shaped as much by absence as we are by presence.

Part of individuation and the lifelong work of becoming ourselves means confronting the pain of what was missing. Not to dwell, but to retrieve the exiled parts of the self we left behind in the ache. This is where the real inheritance begins.

As we approach the Leo new moon, a time of renewal, heart, and creative courage we might consider:

In what small way could you allow yourself to be seen and loved? We cannot grow in hiding and isolation.

What hidden part of you is ready to risk being revealed?

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15/07/2025

We just got back from time abroad, and clarified some hard truths about life in the US. We cannot fully comprehend the waters we’re swimming in and travel and breaks in routine can make this clear quite quickly. When you step outside your usual environment, it becomes easier to notice the invisible structures shaping your daily life.

In the U.S., many of us live inside a system that quietly prioritizes productivity, individualism, and constant striving. It’s not that Europe has it all figured out, but the texture of daily life often felt different. More shared tables. More parks filled with people just being together. More natural moments for connection.

In America, loneliness has become the baseline for so many. And it’s not just a personal issue—it’s structural. The culture here isn’t designed to help people come together easily.

But now more than ever, we need each other.

At Inner Vision, we’re committed to creating spaces where connection can happen in real and nourishing ways. Be on the lookout for some fall groups and a retreat in 2026. 🦋

We’d love to hear: What’s one way you’re building community this summer?

11/07/2025

Stills from Aokigahara: Su***de Forest, 2010 documentary

10/07/2025

“There is no linear evolution… there is only a circumambulation of the self.”
– Marie-Louise von Franz

Progress doesn’t always look like progress.
Sometimes it looks like grief, stillness, circling the same truth again and again until you’re ready to live it differently.