fatness as protection:
UNPACKING THE PSYCHOLOGICAL LAYERS OF OBESITY
It seems that much of what we experience these days is a polarisation between the concrete and the symbolic. In politics the world stage is seeing polarising forces of conservatism and liberalism. In social economics there seems to be an ever-growing disparity between the super rich echelon and the desperately poor. With our bodies it is the same.
THE JOURNEY WITHIN:
EMBRACING THE DEPTHS OF SELF
“At first, the encounter with the Self is indeed a defeat for the ego; but with perseverance, Deo Violente, light is born from the darkness. One meets the “Immortal One” who wounds and heals, who casts down and raises up, who makes small and makes large - in a word, the One who makes whole” - Edward Edinger (Encounter with the Self).
Some days are difficult
Some days our souls stand up & fight
I see people struggle every day through not just one problem, but a myriad of conflicted confluence of emotions, thoughts and beliefs. They walk into my practice desperate to understand their psyches, desperate to find ‘the answer’; thereby ending all suffering in one fell swoop. And here is the paradox: