The rewards for embracing our selves are great, for each reclaimed pattern feeds us with new energy, each helps to make our journey on earth more meaningful, more effective, and more joyous.

It is sometimes painfully difficult to honor all the parts. As Jung once so aptly said, “The medicine we need is always bitter.” Well, it may not always be bitter, but “gunk” is “gunk;” it is not always easy to accept patterns that seem reprehensible to us or, more accurately, that seem reprehensible to that part of us with which we are identified.

In ancient Greece it was understood that all the gods and goddesses should be worshiped. Although each person had particular favorites, none of the remaining deities could be ignored. The god or goddess whom you ignored became the one who turned against you and destroyed you, as Apollo destroyed Troy. It is also true in working with our

Both men and women need their vulnerability and sensitivity in order to truly feel a part of life, and they need their warriors to ensure they do not become victims to life’s difficulties.

Only when we are aware of this “killer who protects” can we truly experience the richness and beauty of our vulnerability.

This development of an awareness level that can witness and an aware ego that can embrace both power and vulnerability is one of the central goals of transformational work.

Learning to be aware of and experience our vulnerability, and then learning how to express it through an aware ego, therefore, is one of the most significant tasks we encounter in transformational work.

the essence of the developmental process. We are born quite vulnerable and remain so for an extended period of time. The protector/controller is the first major self that develops to protect this vulnerability. Quite early in life, the protector/controller becomes the guiding agent of the personality, and it utilizes other selves to create its

It is almost impossible to resist the power of the rational father. He is always cool and in command. The more rational he gets, the more irrational the other will sound.