My partner took this image of me when we snuck in a coffee together before work and right after doing the school drop off. It felt big for many reasons. Both personal and collective.
I have been in and out of the Covid vortex and the exhaustion felt too real. In my bones. The fear, anxiety, worry for loved ones and for the shift the world is undergoing. Shifts that challenge freedom but also life and death and construction of illness…I have been trying to make sense of it all to no avail. The grief of lost potential is big though.
I am booked to sit with La Maestra, La Que Sabe, the one who knows – Clarissa Pinkola Estés for the upcoming weekend. The loss of connection and mentoring feels deep but I can dive within myself and actually see her inside and converse with her – receiving everything I need. That’s how strong her presence is within me. The big introjection that actually serves me well! Do you know what I mean?? Is there an introjected internalized mentor that you carry in your heart?
Other huge personal shifts are also happening in a rapid succession. Am I ready? The universe forgot to check in with my readiness I guess.
Can I sit with it? Who am I now? Who was I yesterday…literally. Big questions of identity as I respond to change. And as I reflect on the last 8 years of my life here, in this strange land (yesterday we marked our Australian anniversary 🌟) I sit with it.
There is a lot.
I recognize and allow it all to be exactly as it is.
Aleksandra
She, who remembers.
I work at the threshold, where psyche speaks in symbols, and the soul remembers. Rooted in Jungian depth psychology and Internal Family Systems, my work invites women and seekers into the quiet, often forgotten places within: the underworlds of grief, the wild terrain of desire, the sacred chambers of the inner child, inner mother, the Shadowlands, and Self.
With a background in women’s heath research, in ritual, and in lived experience spaces, I do not offer diagnosis or treatment, I offer devotion to the unfolding Self. On the threshold of becoming- where we always are.
Through dreams, parts work, myth, and the body, I walk beside those ready to meet themselves fully, fiercely, and tenderly.
This is not fast work. It is sacred work.
It is not about fixing, it is about remembering.
I do not promise certainty.
I promise presence, and a deep trust in the wisdom already within you.
My work is rooted in the wild: in the seasons and the body, in the wisdom of the land, and in the deep ecology of the soul. I honour the personal as political, and the psychological as inseparable from the cultural. Feminism, ecopsychology, and embodied awareness are not add-ons here, they are the soil this work grows from.
I offer one-on-one soulwork sessions, women’s circles, and immersive psychoeducational experiences that weave together depth psychology, parts work, and embodiment. Some of this work unfolds indoors, some in wild places—always with reverence for the wisdom of nature, the nervous system, and the feminine psyche.
Welcome to the HORÓ nest.
I think you might just be ready to re-member your Self.
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Aleksandra Staneva, PhD - Internal Family Systems & Jung 