Sublime

the myth of the hero, a cross-cultural theme explored psychoanalytically by Otto Rank,

A woman’s issues of soul cannot be treated by carving her into a more acceptable form as defined by an unconscious culture, nor can she be bent into a more intellectually acceptable shape by those who claim to be the sole bearers of consciousness. No, that is what has already caused millions of women who began as strong and natural powers to become

wilderwoman

To find your Element you may have to challenge your own beliefs about yourself.

finding the untouched core of herself,

With the help of dreams and myth, we can expose the narratives that are operating compulsively in our lives and begin to restory ourselves out of the places where we feel trapped or stuck.

Archetypal patterns gone awry, skewed into the negative by disastrous encounters with living people in the outer world—that is, in most cases, by inadequate or hostile parents—manifest in our lives as crippling psychological problems. If our parents were, as the psychologist D. W. Winnicott says, “good enough,” then we are enabled to experience and

“passions” and “desires”—it’s really an encoded