How to Use Archetypes for Mental Health 

girl, im so glad i found your page. feels like taking a breath from this inner space within me i've started to walk in and live from as well. i'm in my final semester of my MSW and it's been super interesting to hear you talk about your journey and insights around becoming a somatic psychotherapist ( i just watched your video on that as the first of yours i came across). I've been interested in psychology from so many different angles as well, from yoga, to the body, spirituality, jungian psychology, estatic dance and movement, embodied expression, mindfulness, cbt, dbt, psychedelics, altered states of consciousness, etc (even some witchcraft but i never got too deep with it).... it's good to find another soul curious about this journey and trying to figure out how to walk herself and others through therapy back home. i'm also still uncovering, discovering, and unfolding along my path (personal & profession) and i feel well companioned along this curious journey by you.

Wow, you've been super vulnerable, I really appreciate it. As a kid, I really talked to someone inside me as if it was like a fairy, that will always confort me. It's so sad to see how I stopped doing that because I saw it as a sign of immaturity. Thank you so much for reminding me that part of myself.

Elizabeth! This was one of my favorite podcast episodes EVER. I learned a lot and related so much to you. Being a HSP dealing with complex PTSD since I can remember, I've always felt like life was "too much" for me and that I couldn't handle it as a victim of what happened to me. However, I found this power I didn't know I had by working with Kali, the divine fierce mother. The goddess of life and death. The slayer of what does not serve the highest good. I felt attracted to her in a similar way as you described for Hecate. And it has changed everything... Now I feel more powerful than ever before. I feel like I can take my life in my own hands and design it from this divine place. The challenges I'm facing and will face become opportunities for me to explore more of my sacred power, awakened by Kali. Thank you so so much for doing this podcast, I can't even explain with words how much I relate to your experience and healing journey. It's truly beautiful and inspiring to hear about a similar soul and how you're navigating life on your own authentic way. In some way, I feel deeply connected to you and that warms my heart. Much love! 🖤

Exactly my cup of tea! Beautiful, poignant tales from your journey both into the underworld and back to the surface - ike walking a labyrinth. Thank you for sharing your stories, and for extending the invitation to us to embark on our own journeys. And thanks too for reminding us not to let our altars get cold.

Thank you for sharing this wild journey! You are so articulate, honest, brave, and intuitive. I found you in an interview with Forrest Hanson (wasn't even subscribed lol). The way you describe your experiences and emotions resonates with me so deeply. I really thought the witchcraft element was going to throw things off entirely but I find that it's doing exactly the opposite :) I would love to hear more about these "shamanic practices," as I have recently found psilocybin to be extremely helpful in my own journey (reconnecting with my body, inner child work, visiting those dark places within me, and just general access to memories of my childhood). Anways, thanks for the great content! I'll be here for all of it :)

This is so amazing because of how much you include of your unique experiencing. You listen to your intuitive pulls and act on them, which is really great because you could easily get bogged down in theories and models, but you don't...

I love Hekate. I'm 62 and found her very young. I saw her as powerful, her strength, her wisdom. Her dogs are able to eat an infinite amount of negative energy and transform it. many of the later goddesses are very compartmentalized whereas Hekate was a fully developed in her own Power.

Hi Elizabeth this was really fantastic and very, very helpful. And sooo very wise. You answered a very big question for me which is why at 62 years old and a lot of deep spiritual practice that I still have so much trouble know that I am okay and that there is a part of myself untouched by trauma. I have known the dark sides and shadow are a big key. But your description is very helpful. So here's my big question. What if you have always maybe unconsciously aligned with the Damsel in distress or the Cinderella archetype since young child hood.... and I think some women of my generation are really trapped in this....and probably wouldn't want to admit it. And what if life experience has brought women and men who align with the villain archetype consciously or unconsciously.....and really do go around trying to dominate and hurt people. Or often in emphasizing the sexuality of these archetypes and images wind up re-traumatizing people or violating one another (especially in spiritual circles). I have known many people who, in getting in touch with their magic and power......really do misuse it. And I do get the feeling from you that you would never.....and feeling that in your sharing is just incredibly beautiful and welcomed! I'd love to hear you address this if you can. But really this was greatly appreciated. Thanks to Forest Hanson for recommending your channel!!!:)))

Love this !!!! Thank you so much for sharing ❤

I appreciate so much your vulnerability! Thank you!❤

I'm such a huge admirer of your content! It's been helping me immensely. Could you please speak on your relationship to the tarot one of these days? I'm just assuming you have one as a witch lol

I'm an innana fan, love your work!!

What a story, incredibil jurney.. I feel close to mith of Perseus and destiny of Medusa. Incredibly, with human beings they go to mythology to explain the The Unexplainable within. I feel the same way. The trauma wants to be healed and the body needs titrations and the psyche for cognitive cognition and the spirit for extrasensitival feelings mithology

Hey. I work in a kitchen. Today when I went to check the reservations. (We had 5 tables of 3. (It was a little slow good for me hourly lol.) finished w maybe 45 in case anyone was wondering. But I mentioned to the crew “heyyyy look at all these 3s I feel we should play lotto or look up the numerology.”they said “what’s that gna tell us” i dnt know but maybe it will change your life. And here you are with the 3s and the info. Super cool. Be well

I feel the exact same way about my spiritual mother Goddess Isis and how she mothers me and loves on me has helped me tremendously on my spiritual journey and my life journey in general

I struggle so much with this insatiable internal resistance that throws a perpetual tantrum no matter what I am facing. It sucks, and it’s incredibly painful, and yet… I still don’t feel entirely fed up with it, which is infuriating. I want to want to change, but I’m not sure if I want to change. The misery which naturally arises as a result of the internal resistance is agonizing, but it’s also sickly familiar, and in that twisted familiarity lies a most perverse comfort. I don’t want to be ruled by this indefinitely, but I just don’t know what will be the catalyst for me. I feel like a helpless failure for admitting any of this- I don’t want this to be true, to be my reality… but it is, at least for now. Maybe where it starts is in coming to terms with this piece itself, in recognizing that resisting this reality doesn’t make it any less true.

Hi Elizabeth! Question… how do we figure out what our archetype is or which archetype is speaking to us? Are there any good articles/videos/references you can provide for discovering archetypes? Thanks so much for your insight🙏🏻✌🏻

Can one have inner power and be kind and peaceful? This is kind of my dream but i have never seen an example of it.

Why you’re not posting any videos!💔