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resisting change. I have an agreement                  hear yourself speak out loud what has been
        I made long ago with God. If I am not                  ruminating inside your heart and mind.
        seeing something, show it to me three                  Sometimes just in speaking and telling

        times and I promise I will pay attention. your story, you will hear your inner voice
                                                               saying things to you that help you process

        Just days before his death, Carl Jung put              the unvarnished truth. If an individual
        it this way, “To this day, God is the name             stays barricaded by a persona of “I already
        by which I designate all things which cross  know it all” or “I don’t want anyone to

        my willful path violently and recklessly, all  know what I am really feeling or thinking,”
        things which upset my subjective views,                the soul itself feels isolated and can go into

        plans and intentions and change the                    a state of despair, hopelessness and yes,
        course of my life for better or worse.”                even thoughts of ending it all as one of my
        —Good Housekeeping Magazine,                           clients said to me recently.

        December, 1961
                                                               Life is about change.

        Depth psychology concepts like shadow
        work and seeing our complexes are NOT  The only thing I am 100% sure of is that
        ego enhancing. In fact, they are the exact  everything changes all the time. Give

        opposite. It’s akin to a confession with a             yourself the chance to love all of yourself,
        priest to be that open and revealing to                the dark (shadow) and the light (divinity)

        another person, but even better as this                and share with someone you trust. This
        person has history with you. They’ve                   authenticity leads us to participate more
        seen you at your best and they’ve seen                 fully in life and experience what the

        you at your worst and love the real you.               alchemists called the Gold — which is our
        You know without a doubt because they                  open heart.

        have demonstrated it year after year.
        When they say anything to you, it is not               Rebeca Eigan
        with the intention to hurt you as they

        have your back. You are free to reveal
        what my teacher Rev. Pittman McGehee,

        D.D. called the four Fs of intimacy. Fears,
        failures, fantasies and feelings.



        Another very important part of this open
        and honest discourse is that you get to




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