From the beginning, before the baby years, before school runs and teenage sleep-ins, there was coffee.
Not just caffeine, but a slow, sacred act we carved out in the soft light of morning. Our ritual began when we were still just two souls finding home in each other. We’d sit, hands wrapped around warm cups, hearts open.
It was never just about the drink, it was about presence. About saying, “Before the world asks anything of us, we belong to each other.”
In the whirlwind of early parenting, milk-stained clothes, fractured sleep, endless need we protected this ritual like a flame in the wind. Sometimes it was ten stolen minutes. Sometimes just a shared glance over the rim of a mug. But always, we returned. This ritual is our temenos – our sacred container. A space untouched by the outer world, where the Self and the Other are honoured and seen.
Now, as our teenager slumbers through the early hours, the house quiet once more, our mornings echo with a familiar rhythm. The ritual remains, not as nostalgia, but as renewal. It is where our partnership reclaims its breath.
Phew it’s been a minute.
We had created this ritual not out of habit, but necessity. It is a tether to what is real. To what is us.
Now, we savour our second cuppa at a local café-because thanks to Australia, we’ve become unapologetic coffee snobs with high standards and zero regrets.
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 