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Ingredients

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Summer is a great time for camping! My family recently visited Kings Canyon National Park to see some of the most magnificent trees in the world. We stayed in the tent cabins at Grant Grove and had a wonderful time campi...

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An original creation from Sacred Kitchen, where food is medicine and must be delicious

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Recently, I’ve experienced a different kind of grief, not from physical death, but from the ideological death of certain family relationships. Some relatives have aligned themselves with divisive, exclusionary viewpoints...

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In November of 1993, I was sitting on a bench next to a Mexican-American who I had just met. It was the holiday season, and through small talk I asked him if he was going to have a large Thanksgiving dinner. His response...

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As I have gotten older, I have started to appreciate the simpler things in life. Lately, I have been in awe of the fog that sits outside of my window in the mornings and I love seeing the trees around me change hues. Win...

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Ingredients

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The other day I was sitting in my parked car, waiting for a friend, when I noticed a family loading into the truck beside me. As the mother opened the passenger door, I had a familiar flicker of worry: I hope that door d...

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Love.

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The limited series Wayward is a Canadian mystery thriller created by comedian Mae Martin, who abandons their usual comedic flair for an unsettling, gripping, and thought-provoking exploration of “brokenness”, the promise...

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When a dear friend of mine recently had their first child, I began to reflect on our relationship and the many milestones we experienced together over the years. Although we both live in different states and don’t always...

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An absolute favorite film of mine is The Accidental Tourist (1988), directed by Lawrence Kasdan, with a screenplay adapted from Anne Tyler’s 1985 novel of the same name.

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You may ask yourself, "What is that beautiful house?"

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Wouldn’t it be nice if life came with directions, not unlike an IKEA cabinet? “Contents: eight (8) daily routines; twelve (12) healthy coping mechanisms; three (3) meaningful relationships; and one (1) hex key. Some ass...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/the-compass-and-the-map","title":"The Compass and the Map","summary":"Wouldn’t it be nice if life came with directions, not unlike an IKEA cabinet? “Contents: eight (8) daily routines; twelve (12) healthy coping mechanisms; three (3) meaningful relationships; and one (1) hex key. Some ass...","date_modified":"2025-05-02T22:05:59Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/word-of-the-month-archetype","html_content":"

The concept of the archetype holds a central place in Jungian, Archetypal, and post-Jungian psychology. It refers to innate, universal patterns or motifs that shape human experience and imagination across cultures and ti...

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In the world of depth psychology, few ideas are as transformative as "the psychological difference." Simply put, it is the distinction between the ego (the persona or "me") and the non-ego (the true Self or soul). This d...

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Last summer while taking a walk in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, I stumbled across a rose garden I had never been to before. As a I made my way through the rows and rows of fresh roses dancing in summertime bloom, on...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/ode-to-a-rose","title":"Ode to a Rose","summary":"Last summer while taking a walk in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, I stumbled across a rose garden I had never been to before. As a I made my way through the rows and rows of fresh roses dancing in summertime bloom, on...","date_modified":"2025-03-28T22:39:54Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/in-defense-of-inefficiency","html_content":"

As an undergrad psychology major, I struggled to find my specific calling within such a broad field. Conducting research, holed up in a basement, seemed too removed from the world; on the other hand, clinical work seemed...

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The devastating changes sweeping across the country this week have been dizzying. It seems like our collective shadow is no longer shadow, but fully formed flesh. Yet, the denial of what has taken place reveals that we a...

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As news reports of the devastating fires consuming Los Angeles County continued to flash across my phone, I began to feel the tremendous sense of loss and grief that has steadily been growing within me for quite some tim...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/a-simple-offering","title":"A Simple Offering","summary":"As news reports of the devastating fires consuming Los Angeles County continued to flash across my phone, I began to feel the tremendous sense of loss and grief that has steadily been growing within me for quite some tim...","date_modified":"2025-01-11T01:38:37Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/trigger-happy-welcoming-the-unconscious-as-a-path-to-healing","html_content":"

All of us have experienced the discomfort of feeling “triggered,” or experiencing an uncontrolled emotional response to something someone says or does, or to an ordinary event in our lives. A parent makes a simple reques...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/trigger-happy-welcoming-the-unconscious-as-a-path-to-healing","title":"Trigger Happy: Welcoming the Unconscious as a Path to Healing","summary":"All of us have experienced the discomfort of feeling “triggered,” or experiencing an uncontrolled emotional response to something someone says or does, or to an ordinary event in our lives. A parent makes a simple reques...","date_modified":"2024-11-22T02:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/seasonal-rhythms-part-2","html_content":"

Six months ago, I wrote about the 72 micro-seasons of the ancient Japanese calendar and challenged myself to notice the subtle changes around me in my own neighborhood. Since it was Spring, it was pretty easy and almost ...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/seasonal-rhythms-part-2","title":"Seasonal Rhythms, Part 2","summary":"Six months ago, I wrote about the 72 micro-seasons of the ancient Japanese calendar and challenged myself to notice the subtle changes around me in my own neighborhood. Since it was Spring, it was pretty easy and almost ...","date_modified":"2024-09-17T15:07:50Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/social-responsibility-saving-the-world-through-the-anima-mundi","html_content":"

The father of archetypal psychology, James Hillman, once lamented, “Of all of psychology’s sins, the most mortal is its neglect of beauty.” (1) Why is the neglect of beauty a mortal sin? A mortal sin threatens one’s very...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/social-responsibility-saving-the-world-through-the-anima-mundi","title":"Social Responsibility: Saving the world through the Anima Mundi","summary":"The father of archetypal psychology, James Hillman, once lamented, “Of all of psychology’s sins, the most mortal is its neglect of beauty.” (1) Why is the neglect of beauty a mortal sin? A mortal sin threatens one’s very...","date_modified":"2024-07-12T18:10:52Z"},{"id":"https://soulinmind.org/f/seasonal-rhythms","html_content":"

The traditional Japanese calendar has 72 micro-seasons (called kō), each lasting approximately five days. The calendar starts at the beginning of Spring and each period describes the ebb and flow of the natural world: fo...

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“I am having a hard time,” a friend reluctantly confides. “Never have I felt so alone, or so often overcome with utter despair and longing. It hurts so much…”

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An American Psychological Association (APA) study has confirmed what you likely already suspected: the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year. From a lack of time to a lack of money, external stressors see...

","url":"https://soulinmind.org/f/for-a-more-soulful-less-stressful-holiday-season","title":"For a More Soulful, Less Stressful Holiday Season","summary":"An American Psychological Association (APA) study has confirmed what you likely already suspected: the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year. From a lack of time to a lack of money, external stressors see...","date_modified":"2023-12-12T20:27:15Z"}]}