Melissa Kim Corter is an international best-selling author and speaker published in numerous books, articles, and interviews. Her methods blend active imagination, archetypal psychology, and ecotherapy into transformational somatic experiences. She utilizes writing as an alchemical vessel to activate the hidden potential within the reader. As a highly empathic intuitive child, Melissa Kim Corter had a fascination with other people’s basements. Dark unexplored spaces enthralled her, and her insatiable curiosity toward the hidden dimensions of humanity led to decades of exploring the shadow dynamics within the human psyche and nature. She has a Master's degree in Depth Psychology with an emphasis on Jungian Archetypal studies and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Caught in a web, or weaving the dream?
Reader,I spun a tale of wonder, excited about the material stirring within my heart; the next book was breaking through into my conscious awareness... I talked to my friends about it, I told my mentors about it, and still, all I could do was share my excitement. Then next thing I knew, five years went by. I wasn't writing my book. I was inconsistent and failed to bring it to life. Each time I sat down to work on it, I felt defeated; it felt so big, greater than I. This is the slippery, trickster-like nature of desire when it is deeply enmeshed with fear. I began weaving a self-defeating tale each thread sounded like: not enough time not good enough not enough information I'm not ready It hasn't been 'downloaded' into my mind yet I am still pulling the pieces together It is so easy to use convincing language and ideas to keep ourselves from truly showing up. Beneath the excuses and time slipping away was a fear. A seed planted long ago. I was weaving a web, all around me, and somehow I felt like a victim caught in the trappings of my own creation. Stuck in a disempowered state, my book dangled before me in limbo.... just out of reach. Confronting this part of me is an example of Jungian shadow work. I discovered a fear that had eluded me all this time: I deeply cared too much about what others thought about me. A part of me was terrified because the magic moving through my veins was incredible, and this magnetic force wanted OUT. It wanted to be birthed through my creative soul. To honor my magic meant I had to hold the part of me that was in direct conflict with it. When we are caught in a web, suspended in time, days pass, and we feel further from actualizing the dream(s) tucked within the heart. We vacillate between the world of who we are and a knowing of who we could be if only we could be released from the web. We are the protagonist in our journey, yet before we discover the light, the medicine, the power.... we are under a damaging and disenchanting spell: The spell of disenchantment. This is a dangerous spell, one that holds us captive (stuck/frozen), tells us lies (doubt/insecurity), and keeps us from our own power (soul loss/fragmentation). Stuck, frozen, avoidant, or compliant.... the dream slips further and further away, yet the clock never stops ticking. There comes a moment, a critical time, when we are asked to release ourselves from the old story... and we are in it now. The Greek word for this opportune moment is called Kairos. In my group mentoring program, we anchor into the opportune moment, study and examine our darkness, and extract the beauty hidden in the places we avoid. We untangle ourselves from the web and begin weaving our own creations while breathing new life into desires, intentions, callings, and purpose. If you feel called, we are excited to weave with you......
Here's to exploring the parts unknown, Melissa Kim Corter 113 Chester St., New York, NY 10003 |
Melissa Kim Corter
International best-selling author & speaker
Melissa Kim Corter is an international best-selling author and speaker published in numerous books, articles, and interviews. Her methods blend active imagination, archetypal psychology, and ecotherapy into transformational somatic experiences. She utilizes writing as an alchemical vessel to activate the hidden potential within the reader. As a highly empathic intuitive child, Melissa Kim Corter had a fascination with other people’s basements. Dark unexplored spaces enthralled her, and her insatiable curiosity toward the hidden dimensions of humanity led to decades of exploring the shadow dynamics within the human psyche and nature. She has a Master's degree in Depth Psychology with an emphasis on Jungian Archetypal studies and is pursuing a Ph.D. at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Reader, When our relationship to mater (Latin for mother) is out of balance, we may find ourselves saturated in the feminine energy of our individual ancestral lineages— mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and so on…. This saturation may reflect as physical weight, feeling weighed down, overwhelmed, or unconscious burdens of responsibility; often, it feels like a heaviness without a source. This influence can also reflect in the body and persona as perfectionism and addiction- not all...