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Get Your Inner Gold Back From Jesus
Jesus words are invitations to empower and activate our inner gold and a life of...
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Your Shadow is Queer: Pride Offers Courageous Alignment
Coming out is not a one-time event, but an ongoing life of courageous alignment: to...
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Fascism thrives wherever shadow is denied. It offers identity through opposition: you belong because you...
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A Split God-image: The Cost of Dividing for Connection
This article explores how that divided image of God becomes internalized, leading many to suppress...
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Beyond Self-Help: The Power of Shadow Work
By befriending our shadow, we can unblock stagnant energy, increase vitality, and move beyond the...
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Myths: How Our Stories Reveal Our Hidden Life
Myths aren’t concerned with historical accuracy or past events. Instead, they delve into hidden realities—the...
January 17, 2025
Christianity’s Collective Shadow: What Are We Suppressing?
The collective shadow is shaped by historical, theological, and cultural forces. Christianity's influence on the...
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When the Teacher Disappears: Owning Your Inner Gold
When you find someone to project your inner gold onto, it can feel overwhelming to...
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Shadow Projection: Finding Our Hidden Life in Others
A projection occurs when we unconsciously place our hidden life onto other people and situations....
June 2024
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Dream Work & the Unlived Life
Dreams are like buckets that ascend from the inner well with living water, and dream...
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Living Our Unlived Life
The unlived life is less like a bucketlist of things left undone, and more like...
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February 08, 2024
Recovering From Divine Codependency
This article looks at how core Christian beliefs perpetuate unhealth and codependency with the Divine...
January 2024
January 26, 2024
I’d Rather Be Whole Than Good: Healing the Ego-Shadow Split
When we disown and project our goodness and/or badness, wholeness is not possible, because we...
January 04, 2024
Possessed by Trauma: Healing A Negative Complex
Negative complexes specifically are often rooted in trauma, and can hold incredible power over how...
December 2023
December 22, 2023
Shadow Work for RTS (Religious Trauma Syndrome)
Religious Trauma Syndrome (RTS) is the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving...
July 2023
July 23, 2023
How Religion Protects & Deprives Us
The sacred space of church evaporated. It no longer made sense to talk to a...
May 2023
May 21, 2023
Needing a New Christ Image
Just as the seasons change, so too do our Christ images. This happens so our...
February 2023
February 19, 2023
The Archetype of Revival: The Need and Danger of Spiritual Inflation
The archetype of revival is intoxicating and has a nearly inescapable pull because it inflates...
January 2023
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Why You’ve Outgrown Church
Life brings us to thresholds where all we've known no longer supports the personal transformation...
January 04, 2023
How to Address Emotional Energy Leaks
In this article I discuss emotional “energy leaks,” which arise from unconscious psychological processes that...
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Befriending Our Emotions, Healing Our Inner Landscape
Emotions are Guides Befriending our emotions is essential to healthy relationships with ourselves and others....
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We Must Transgress to Grow
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