Author: Kristen Hornung
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A Healing Light Visualization for Grounding and Release
Today I’d like to share one of my favorite guided visualizations. This practice can be helpful if you’re wanting to feel more grounded, or if you’re noticing that you’re holding a lot of tension or emotional activation in your body. It’s a visualization I often return to myself, and one that I regularly adapt in…
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Self-Awareness & The Unconscious
What We Don’t Know About Ourselves How can we become more self-aware, especially when self-awareness requires knowing what we don’t know about ourselves? In this reflection, I want to share a little about the unconscious and how depth psychology has shaped my own relationship to insight, awareness, and humility. When I talk about self-awareness here,…
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Containment Strategies
Containment, Embodiment, Structure, and Expression Today I want to talk a little about containment along with embodiment, structure, and expression, and how these ideas can sometimes support us when we feel stuck or overwhelmed. I’m holding a literal container as I write this: a small recipe box. When I’m ruminating or caught in a thought…
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Strategies for Self-Expression
When it’s Hard to Find the Words: Using Images, Symbols, and Indirect Expression There are times when we know we want to express something, but the words just aren’t there. We might feel pressure building inside, a sense that something needs to be said, and yet when we try to speak, the words disappear. Sometimes…