by maryshutan | Mar 30, 2017 | Enlightenment, Raising Your Consciousness, Self Inquiry, Spiritual Awakening
This is Part 1 of a two-part blog. Part 2 can be found here. To begin, I will say that my definition of the word “ego” is simply that it is our identity– the thought of who we are and what the world is like (so, perhaps more based in Eriksonian thought...
by maryshutan | Mar 20, 2017 | Raising Your Consciousness, Self Inquiry, Working With Emotions
There came a point in my path where I realized that my previous methods of healing were not working. My anger did not want to become joy, my pain did not want to become bliss, my inner violence did not want peace, and my fear did not want to be calm. I realize that I...
by maryshutan | Mar 6, 2017 | Healing Trauma, Shamanism, Spiritual Awakening, Working With Emotions
There is a wild that lies within us. It is our most primal selves, our uninhibited, sexual, animalistic selves… the part of us that is dark and free and expansive. We are not separate from our animal instincts, from nature, from our reptilian brains that act...