psychology of metaphor

| | | |

Stepping into the feeling dimension

The Law of Attraction tells us we need to step into the feeling of what we desire. Feeling is how we connect with the potent, creative forces of the Universe. Metaphor allows you to feel and be what your soul wants to manifest in the world. There is a lot of focus in psychology on…

| |

Our hearts drive our curiosities

I have a client who loves history. Before working with this client I’d never thought much about history. I like watching historical movies, but I disliked history as a subject in school and I always did poorly in it because it required memorizing information (names, dates, places) that felt dry and dead to me. But…

| |

the power of metaphor in client sessions

One of my clients just completed a graduate degree and was feeling stressed about his career path. He needed to earn an income to support his family, yet he wanted to stay true to himself. He talked about needing to cross a “bridge” to find work aligned with his heart. But the metaphor that spontaneously…

| | |

Drop below the surface of your mind

Do you ever feel that there is so much more to you and you don’t know how to tap into it? Or do you spend too much time of your precious time lost in confusion and overwhelm? Here’s a quote from John O’Donohue that beautifully describes what we do in Doorway Sessions: “Sometimes on a…

| | | | | |

The doorway to your genius

In a meeting in late December 2006, the President of a small university asked me what course I wanted to teach in their Ph.D. Psychology program. Instead of responding with the curricula that I was already prepared to teach, to my surprise I found myself blurting out… “metaphor.” The topic was right there; there was…

End of content

End of content