The state of feeling HOME is key in both my professional client work as well as my personal journey of self-discovery as a nomad woman who continues to seek, move, experience…
I both seek the UPROOTEDness and yet I resist it.
Yet the concept of Home, of Inner Home is not contingent upon external places… it is within.
It is a sense of inner belonging. A sense of unconditional love. An unending inner connection with Self. With Greater. Great Mother, Pachamama, the Divine within, Wild Woman, La Que Sabe (the One who Knows) Earth
And here, pictured, is the Queen on the Rainforest, that I regularly pay homage (HOMEage) to. She is absolute.
I am a Mother, an academic, and a psychotherapist.
My work centers around women's health and women's studies and mental health, particularly maternal perinatal mental health, pregnancy, birth, trauma and postnatal depression; I also work in youth wellbeing and cancer projects;
I write books (for children and story-tales for grown ups) because I fully believe that stories carry an enormous transformative power!
"Stories are medicine" (C P Estes). I explore human connection, maternal mental issues (ante- and post-natal depression), feminism for boys and girls, fatherhood, gender diverse families and alternative approaches to health and healing.
I lead women's groups that explore various concepts around human connection, what it means to be a 21 century woman, and a mother through art, fairy-tales and archetypal work.
Both my work and life are grounded in feminism and social activism to progress environmental, anti-stigma and awareness-raising causes.
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Aleksandra Staneva, PhD 