Because I’ve always understood that solitude is more than just a luxury: at certain times in life it’s a necessity. It’s a prerequisite for deep change, for freedom of thought and imagination.

the process of integrating disparate and neglected parts of the psyche into a functioning whole. In psychological alchemy, mortification is accompanied by difficult emotions — shame, embarrassment, guilt, or worthlessness, for example — as we finally face up to these old issues which we’ve hidden away.

They lived in the Underworld, and like other chthonic deities, like seeds that lie buried beneath the Earth, they were also identified with its fertility. The wrath of the Furies manifested itself in a number of ways:

“The unpalatable truth must be faced that all postmenopausal women are castrates,” pronounced American gynecologist Robert Wilson in a 1963 essay;

We can’t mend everything. We can’t. And, sometimes, we simply shouldn’t.

Soraya Chemaly, American author of Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, writes:

“As the bleeding stops, the fire goes within,” Lakota elder Paula Gunn Allen says, noting also that in her tradition medicine women do not practice until they have reached their menopausal years.

Jung believed there is a dimension of the psyche beyond the ego (the conscious personality) which is the source of spiritual experiences; he called this the “self.”

Properly expressed, it can be a great healer — because all rage hides a wound; all rage emerges from pain. My