Natural Dreamwork with Mary Jo
“Mothers are lost to their daughters when they’re lost to themselves.” ~Geneen Roth Dream – I’m at some large event, people milling around. I’m standing at a bistro height table with three teen girls, 17-19. I am much shorter, my head just clears the table top. One asks me, “So what do you have to …
A few years back at a dream retreat, we were speaking about how we work with the material that comes up in our dreams. And my teacher mentioned me, “Mary Jo is resilient.” That caught my attention. I’d never quite thought about myself in that way…and yet I am. Resilience isn’t about knowing something, which …
With the relentlessness and reliability of the tide each night our dreams come…and most nights they challenge us to look at ways we are not in alignment with our soul. They can feel harsh and ego pinching…and they are. They are relentless…and they are reliable. Such is their desire to re-awaken in us our true …
Our dreams bring lovely, connected and supported moments. They also bring material that can be difficult to be with. We don’t want to feel it in waking life and we don’t want to feel it in our dreams. Having a meditation practice has helped me be with these difficult moments…to feel the feeling…take a breath …
“Welcome to Planet Earth”…is what I hear my inner voice whisper whenever I’m faced with a struggle. It’s a tough planet…a beautiful planet…a wounded planet…a painful and joyful planet…and it is our home. I’ve always believed that earth, for humans, is a school…this unique place we come to learn about who we truly are…not who we …
When we find a spiritual practice that speaks to us…be it dreamwork, meditation, yoga, contemplative prayer…so many…we want to see and feel results right away. We want it now! And when it doesn’t happen in our time frame we can feel like something is wrong with us, that we have somehow failed or that the …