Untying Knots in a haunted house
For those of us who have been othered for who and how you love, the body you live in, or the mind you carry, life can be like living in a haunted house. Surrounded by rooms where you feel you have to keep the doors shut and locked away. In these rooms the ghosts of trauma have found a way of tying you and your identity into knots. Shame may be braided with survival, protection woven with silence. Over time these knots have started to tie you up and hold you back.
Going into every haunted house is the work I am inviting us to do together. Finally walk the halls and rooms of your mind that you have spent a lifetime avoiding with someone beside you who isn’t afraid of what’s there. Let’s open the doors and untie the knots together.
I work with the queer community, and anyone who has been othered in some way, around issues of trauma and identity.
“Psychology ought to make room for the mysterious, the metaphoric, the poetic, the irrational—the soul’s way of knowing.”
—James Hillman
