Facing and Healing Trauma

I have been considering something I wrote last week and something I believe with all my heart – how scary dreams, when we face into… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 10: How Nightmares Offer Hope

In this final article about “kinds” of fear provoked in our dreams, let’s look to dreams that frighten us that seem unrelated to our experiences,… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 9: Scary Dreams and Trauma

In our last articles, we explored scary dreams and the fear that can arise when facing the unknown or what is new. These kinds of… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 8: Scary Dreams and Trauma

We are at the end of the season of rituals, turnings, marking things, celebrations and into a new year. Ritual, as we explored last time,… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 7: Change and Fear

A Little Recap Welcome back to our exploration of “Nightmares”. We are exploring scary dreams around the unknown in this article. But first, a little… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 6: Fear with the Unknown

I have been so intrigued by our exploration of scary dreams and some kinds of “fear” we may be working with around our scary dreams.… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 5: A Digression into the Nature of Fear

Before we dive into how to work with scary dreams, let’s look at some of the different kinds of scary dreams that we may experience.… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 4: “Kinds” of Nightmares

Let’s start with a non-sequitur. ~~~~~~~~ Here is a bit of information I learned this week.  In 1947, a scientist named Rudolf Schenkel wrote a… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 3: A Study of Wolves

In the last couple of articles, we have opened up the topics of shadow work, the issue of trajectory and now the question of “nightmares”… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 2: Why We Should Be Curious About Scary Dreams

One of the most common questions I get about dreams [besides “How Do I Remember Dreams”] is about what most of us call nightmares. Why… Read More »Ask Me: What About Nightmares? Part 1: Why??