About Myth Mending
I have spent the last twenty five years gathering a bag of tools and tricks to help people resolve trauma, find their deeper healing story and step into living from their instinctual earth animal knowing. As an undergraduate, I studied Human Health and Behavior at The Evergreen State College. I have a Masters degree in Great Books from St. John’s College as well an MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. During this time I spent 100 hours on Jungian Analysis and fell in love with mythology, archetypes and dream work. Out of this passion I focused my studies on Philosophical Counseling, an age old and re-emerging paradigm of lasting personal transformation, alchemy of the soul.
I have traveled around the globe and maintained a spiritual practice over many years.
I have facilitated hundreds of students in small group inquiry, mentored emerging writers in diverse settings, served on numerous boards, assemblies, and organizations, created community projects and designed collaborative learning programs.
Myth Mending is an innovative and efficient process of trauma resolution, curative story, lineage repair, and nervous system re-imprinting.
It takes place within a simple conversation carefully slowed, tracked, repaired and integrated. Based in part on the work of Hippocrates, Plato, Jung, Peter Levine, Rudolf Steiner, Bert Hellinger, Pam England, thinkers in Pre and Perinatal Psychology, Myth mending is gentle, efficient and enjoyable.
Myth Mending works consistently because it concentrates on three really important elements:
- A Resilient Nervous System: In order to have a resilient nervous system you will first need to anchor yourself in a visceral sense of your ideals and intentions. These will naturally lead to a settling of your nervous system and slowly to the awareness of each of your worries. As you gently shift between these two poles with all your senses, intellect and spirit, you begin to allow integration of the two poles through the wisdom of the body and its archetypal healing motions. As this happens you gain more and more flexibility and presence and begin to gain tools to do this for yourself and your family and ultimately to expand outward and offer it to your community. You find permanent resolution, and it feels good.
- The Real Story: A side-effect of recovering a resilient nervous system is the meaning that emerges along the way. First you identify and clarify your survival story, the one in which you struggle, are overwhelmed, confused or defeated and slowly as each rupture in your being resolves, you piece together a new and heroic personal mythology. You then pass your story on to your children and are able to help them know their own true and meaningful story. You are a part of recovering and passing down the ancestral wisdom of your people – even if your lineage has been lost or broken.
- Instinctual and Perennial Knowing: As you recover resilience and your own authentic story, you also begin to rest in inquiry rather than seek answers. You begin to recover and create real Ancestral Traditions that are important to you. You even have a sense of the universal ingredients of celebration, ritual and ceremony and turn to the Earth herself to remember the Sacred. Its all there for you. As you do this you begin to make sense of all the outside information and advice, and gain confidence in your own intuitions and knowing as a woman and mother.
FAQ
Are you a Therapist and what is Myth Mending?
No. I am not a therapist. Myth Mending simply assists the human organism to connect with its natural healing momentum. It is based on the study of how things work. It assumes the essential integrity and wholeness of each individual. I have consciously avoided engaging in paradigms that diagnose and treat disease and mental illness. I don’t do the healing. I facilitate you doing that yourself.
What happens in a Myth Mending session?
Springing from a clear intention, a typical session starts with a simple conversation. Together we will carefully allow and track the organic emergence of the thing calling for attention. Slowly, efficiently and respectfully we will untangle the constellation in question and, frame by frame, re-imprint and re-integrate, the pieces of the story using all of the senses and psyche.
Is our work together confidential?
Myth Mending is quite different from traditional therapy in that we won’t be going over and over all the details. You get to be fully expressed without feeling like you are giving me lots of tricky information about yourself or your relationships. Also, I am committed to seeing everything you tell me through the sacred lens of the deepest truest story as it emerges so that, in a way, I keep things confidential even from myself.
