Burn Out and Archetypes, Continued

Several people have been kind enough to contact me about my previous blog.  In it I described how living in the Warrior-Lover archetype can lead to a condition of exhaustion, and how to deal with that.
I’d like to go deeper, now.
The Warrior who fights for an honorable, sane, cause he or she truly believes in [...]

Burn Out and Recovery : an archetypal view

The last few weeks have been immensely busy for me.  Now, I know that everyone is busy these days: yet I’ve been particularly active compared to what is normal for me.  A string of house guests, several deadlines, a new venture with a consulting organization called Archetype Communications, and writing, always writing.
As I observed myself [...]

Tell Your Life Story; It’s Good for the Soul

One of the things I’ve come to appreciate is that whenever we tell our life story (and I don’t mean just blurting out a few details to a stranger about how we feel we’ve been mistreated) then we are forced to reassess important aspects of who we are.
This is best accomplished when we write things [...]

Doing Nothing - and helping others

Occasionally I come across a situation where a person obviously needs some help and guidance but there just doesn’t seem to be any way to offer anything. This happened just the other day. People have their defenses, and sometimes those can be formidable. At such times they can’t always hear what’s being said.
What I’ve learned [...]

The Princess and the Pea

This, on the face of it, has to be one of the most absurd fairy-tales of all time.  A princess cannot sleep on a bed with one hundred mattresses because a pea is at the very bottom, making her uncomfortable. And this is supposed to be a good thing?
Well, if we read the tale literally [...]

Memoir - and soul work

Memoir, which is so often associated with celebrity kiss-and-tell sensationalism, can be one of the more meaningful things any of us can do.  To review one’s life, or even a small part of one’s life, will usually open us up to seeing that life in new ways. When we take this process and use it [...]

Memoir and Soul Work

My latest book is due out at the end of December. Write Your Memoir: The Soul Work of Telling Your Story is a book that is not like the other how-to books on the market, since it uses the concept of archetypes and shows the reader (and budding memoirist) how to enlist the help of [...]

Youtube

As my typing fingers (both of them) seem to be becoming less and less agile I’ve decided to put some of the blogs on video.  If you want to take a look there is a whole series on Youtube.com.  Just go to the site and type in Drallanhunter in the search box.  This will take [...]