Brenda Goodell HHP The Lair

05/23/2022

05/22/2022

There’s something about periods of liminality and transition which contain a hidden doorway, though not always a comfortable one, leading into reunion with what I will refer to as “the lost orphans of psyche and soma,” a group of internal friends and allies that we will meet along the way of the heart. https://mattlicataphd.com/

05/06/2022

Chiron the wounded healer

The wounded healer isn’t only a myth to learn about, but a living reality inside you, with its own images, feelings, fragrance, and modes of vision. It is more like a mandala or inner atmosphere that you can enter into.

Or perhaps more accurately, it will at times find you so that it might draw you nearer to itself, through your dreams, unexpected moods, a color, a friend who irritates you, or through unexplainable symptoms in your body. Just as you may be longing for the Beloved, he or she (or it or they) are also looking for you, and will do whatever it takes to find you.

Within the center of the mandala, to speak mythologically, we find Chiron and his merry band of travelers, as well as each and every person who has been initiated into the mysteries by way of the sacred wound.

Perhaps the fact that you are reading this post may indicate that you are somehow part of that lineage, the stream coming down by way of the Asklepian dream temples of ancient Greece, where wayfarers and travelers would go to receive vision.

But this isn’t only an anthropological or historical matter. Chiron and the dream-vision incubation temples are alive inside you right now, infusing your muscles and cells, hidden in the chambers of your heart, and wired into the strands of your DNA.

We might open our imagination and discover that these mythological figures are not trapped back in ancient Greece, but are alive in the collective fields which play out in our personal lives through our relationships, creative work, spiritual practice, and health challenges.

Because the energetic imprints of the wounded healer are alive in the collective, we can be in relationship with these figures, their qualities, and ways of perception that they represent.

Through our practice and prayer and silence and being in nature and in the chaos of relationship and work, we can enter experientially into the center of the mandala, or interior garden. In this sense, the wounded healer is an actual “place” that exists in the landscape of the soul, that we can find our way to in the imaginal world.

You might start to sense or hear it, feel or see it, or know it is there in some unexplainable way.

You won’t be able to “find” this place within your physical anatomy or with a high-powered microscope, but you may very well find it in the anatomy of the soul. https://mattlicataphd.com/

12/15/2020

The Grief relief flower essences from FES- a favorite

The FES Grief Relief formula was created during an earlier time of national trauma after the 9-11-01 attacks, Read about how the Grief Relief formula was developed and how it can help us deal with the many losses we are experiencing in today's crises. http://www.fesflowers.com/grief-relief-a-heart-balm-for-times-of-loss/

11/04/2020

Yoga of mind

Today, like every other day, will be a day like no other. As much as things change, they also stay the same: aspire to right thoughts, right speech, right action, right livelihood. The path there remains the same-–a calm, clear and tranquil mind. In this way, reminded of what does not change, I navigate the ever-changing with love and wisdom. This is yoga as I know it.

08/30/2020

Rad offerings available 9/20 for our BIPOC community. I hope to participate.

07/05/2020

Saw some squirrel people eating at the rose buffet. Braving the thorns to enjoy the succulent petals.

05/21/2020

On sale right now, pick up Trauma Relief, fear-less and YES yarrow formula In salt water base- really good for radiation from extra screen time. If you have the cash, add the St John’s Seasons of the Soul oil. Hardly used anything better for protection and soothing nerves/ calm spirit. Can be used many times in normal
Life- especially useful now as we, in varying increments revisit the world outside the house.

Discounts expire May 31 for FES Products for Times of Crisis - https://mailchi.mp/fesflowers/times-of-crisis-may2020

05/06/2020

More than one of these is worth your while. Love Brenda

If you feel stressed today, like you haven't had a moment to yourself, try these 6 mindfulness exercises & find sanctuary for a few moments.