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The Red Ribbon (A Short Story of Trauma, Dreams and Healing)

by Jeff Howlin | Sep 9, 2016 | Editorial, Imagery, Soul, Symbolic, Synchronicity, Trauma/PTSD

I could not breathe. Hot, tired and afraid, I was.  Trapped in the middle of a crowd of strangers in an airport—people looking at one another more from suspicion than from wonder.  Me—held in my mother’s arms while being touched and bumped by bags and elbows. There,...

In the Middle of the Night: Coyotes, a Synchronicity and the Trickster Archetype

by Jeff Howlin | Jan 22, 2014 | Archetypes, Consciousness, Creativity, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Psyche, Synchronicity

On January, 11, 2014, a good friend of mine who lives in Tucson, AZ, spontaneously sent me a series of photographs taken with a “trail cam.” This camera was mounted in his backyard which backs up to the desert. The photos were all of coyotes in the middle of the...

The Psyche is Alive

by Jeff Howlin | Jul 30, 2013 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Imagery, Individuation, Nature, Psyche, Psychology, Soul, Synchronicity, Unconscious

What does it mean to be alive? Most everyone can agree that a horse is alive or an oak tree is alive. But is a river alive? Are clouds alive? Is the psyche alive? We call something alive for different reasons—one being when the thing that we are trying to describe as...

The Rabbit Hole: A Young Woman’s Journey into the Unconscious

by Jeff Howlin | May 4, 2012 | Archetypes, Dreams, Editorial, Individuation, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Synchronicity, Unconscious

Recently on an afternoon hike, I passed by the above hollowed out tree, which reminded me immediately of the rabbit hole in Lewis Carroll’s book, Alice in Wonderland. I knew that I must write about the image and story of the rabbit hole from a Jungian psychological...

Pelicans and Animal Dreams

by Jeff Howlin | Nov 17, 2011 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Nature, Psychotherapy, Synchronicity

Earlier this year I wrote about the Common Loon, an occasional visitor to Santa Cruz and the Central Coast. A much more abundant seabird in the area is the Brown Pelican. Visitors and locals alike marvel at the beauty of the colorful pelican as it glides along the...

When the Interpreter Weeps and Other Numinous Tales

by Jeff Howlin | Nov 10, 2011 | Nature, Psychology, Psychotherapy, Synchronicity

Several years ago, I was conducting a psychological evaluation on a client while working for an agency. Some of the clients that I interviewed at this agency spoke no English, and therefore the agency utilized interpreters by speaker phone. In one particular case,...
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