Life is inherently unpredictable. It throws us curveballs in the form of unexpected change. Psychotherapy can become a guide to help us navigate such uncertainties.

The caring witness of the client of their own trauma kid and the kid’s understanding that their pain is being witnessed, that they are cared about, is all that’s necessary for profound healing and integration of this previously split-off part of the self.

Underneath our quest to do more and be better, we may find that what we’re mainly trying to do is to get away from ourselves, our “bad” selves, in search of our “good” selves. When I catch myself in this state, I find it really helpful to stop. And breathe. Won’t you try it now? It’s pretty simple.

Mandalas, Sanskrit for “circles,” have for centuries been associated with the archetype of the Self, the ordering or containing principle of the psyche as well as psyche itself whose “center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere.”