The Sun and Moon
As the earth is experiencing some of its hottest temperatures I am thinking about the sun and the moon and our symbolic, archetypal relationship with them. Symbolism refers to the universal, cultural and personal meaning of something. It speaks to our conscious and unconscious mind. The Sun and Moon rise in the East and set […]
Symbols: signposts for understanding and change
In the sandplay training and therapy I offer we use miniatures to help support the process of transformation in the. We refer to these miniatures as symbols. Images created in art are also considered to be symbols. So why use the term symbol. We live in a world surrounded by symbolic images they present in […]
Othering and belonging: difference and connection fractured world
Full summer. Blue skies. Swallows on the wing. Butterflies dancing. Crops ripening. A seemingly fractured world. These words spoke to me this morning:‘The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk and understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and […]
Lunar cycles: light and shadow, loss and nourishment
Since I last wrote the world has changed with international relationships feeling more precarious than ever and in my personal world the death of a parent. The inner and the outer is in a state of play with new positions being jostled for on all stages and a certain sense of being adrift as I […]
Love: Storge, Philia, Agape, Eros
I’ve been taking time to watch and listen and see. To simply Be. In these grey days of winter the natural world is coming alive. The birds are singing, establishing territory and wooing their mates. The tree buds are beginning to fill and the first of the daffodils are flowering. The days are perceptibly longer. […]
Community: belonging, identity, connection
Reconnect Feb March 2026 How do we make connection in this digital age? I have been musing on the concept of community and considering its multi faceted nature. At the personal level we have an internal community of the different aspects of ourselves described in various ways by different psychological theories, with similarities in understanding, […]