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Aleksandra Staneva, PhD

mother, scholar, psychotherapist

  • Aleksandra
    • Qualifications
    • Thanks for checking out my online space
  • HORÓ Counselling
    • StoryWise ~ Individual sessions
    • Motherhood Out Loud Sessions
    • Women Workshops
    • Fees & Booking
    • Clients’ feedback
  • Publications
    • Books
  • Blog
    • Blog posts
    • Parenting well when you haven’t been well parented?
    • A woman and her symbols
    • Inner Bear
    • Humming, chanting, gargling – state of social engagement and Polyvagal theory
    • Mother’s day transformations
    • On hibernation
    • On Showing up
    • Perfectly imperfect, thank you!
    • Period rant: the baby is OK
    • The therapeutic power of fairy tales
    • The Unspeakables is in “The Maternal Tug: Ambivalence, Identity, and Agency” Demeter press (chapter 4)
    • On the problematic nature of Self-care for Mothers (reflecting on my experiences)
    • Womb studies
    • Sitting with the Discomfort
    • The Unspeakables: On mothers (not)talking about depression
    • Cold milk, a poem
    • Pregnancy distress, all things considered (a summary of findings from my research)
    • reflections from Original Voice, Colorado, 2019
    • Perfect Pregnant Woman, deconstructed
    • On the power of Dreams
    • Motherhood is hard! Talking helps…
    • On mornings with mySelf
    • Radical self-compassion for Mothers
    • Motherhood, uncensored (reminiscing on my 1st year of mothering, 2009)
    • Spontaneity days
    • The reproduction of the Black Mother stereotype.
    • MotherWound
    • On hearing the call towards transformation and healing
    • Motherhood: my hardest quest and my best guide on self-awareness
    • On cultivating a Forgiving Heart
    • Seizing this morning.
    • Befriending Anger
    • Addiction and disconnection
    • Adult attachment styles
    • Boys and the need for the Feminine
    • Let’s talk hormones
    • The essence of emotional holding
    • Podcast: the Soul-Work of Mothering
    • This belongs…this belongs
    • Defenses against early abandonment
    • On Mothering without the Village
    • On the need and the power of Rituals
    • Dream Work
    • Parenting during a Pandemic
    • Inner un-rose-ing
    • On intuition and its retrieval
    • On the unconscious manipulation of our children
    • I can rage when you hurt me, without losing you?
    • The reproduction of the Black Mother stereotype.
    • Parenting well when you haven’t been well parented?
    • MotherWound
    • On hearing the call towards transformation and healing
    • Motherhood: my hardest quest and my best guide on self-awareness
    • On cultivating a Forgiving Heart
    • Seizing this morning.
    • A woman and her symbols
    • Mother’s day transformations
    • Period rant: the baby is OK

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