inner child – Page 2 – Aleksandra Staneva, PhD

fairy tales, good mother myth, IFS, inner child, Mothering, Self-care

Inner Child circle

Nov 23, 2021Mar 16, 2022 aleksandrastaneva

It’s no secret that the ways in which we were mothered (and parented) affects us for life. We can choose to remain unconscious about it and allow this to continue to impact on our🌻 intimate relationships through attachment wounds🌻 parenting and thus perpetuating the same wounding onto our children and their children too🌻the way we… Continue reading Inner Child circle

Dreams, fairy tales, good mother myth, IFS, inner child, Mothering, polyvagal applications, research, Self-care, therapy

On Online Therapy

Aug 10, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

💻 ONLINE CLIENT FEEDBACK: "It took me a bit of therapist speed dating to find Aleks and I’m so glad I did. Aleks has changed my life really; not by healing me but by teaching me to heal myself – through her academic knowledge, her ability to see and work with the Self/spirit/soul, and just… Continue reading On Online Therapy

IFS, inner child, lived experiences, Mothering, research, Self-care, therapy

So have you heard of IFS yet?

Jul 6, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

✨✨✨Celebrating the BIG and SMALL victories! And this one feels huge! HORÓ Counselling has added a powerful tool to her (mine, that’s a bit weird) treasure chest of magic! In the last year and a half I have been training, and mastering my craft of healing, care, support, transformation and magic ✨ It has been… Continue reading So have you heard of IFS yet?

About me, IFS, inner child, lived experiences, Self-care, therapy

Lockdown Self-compassion

Jun 30, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

🖤Lockdown🖤Sitting with lots of Inner Activation. 💜Recognizing All that is present for my Inner world right now. All the discomfort. Disappointment. Disconnection. Dreams undone. The turmoil. Not trying to change it. Just giving it a name. A good label. Some air. 💜Allowing it All to be. Just as it is. Painful. Unfair. Hopeless. Raw. Triggering.… Continue reading Lockdown Self-compassion

inner child, lived experiences, Mothering, workshops

On rituals

Jan 13, 2021Jan 13, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

I have been digging deep into Ritual work and gathering more and more evidence on the profound role ritual plays in our lives. Ritual is any gesture done with intention and with emotion. And the effects, when ritual is done from the heart and is well contained and held by a trusted and safe other,… Continue reading On rituals

About me, good mother myth, inner child, lived experiences, Mothering, Self-care

Boys to men, and the mending of souls

Oct 18, 2020Aug 7, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

My husband teaching our son how to 🧵 sew! I always thought I would naturally be the one who teaches these “softer” skills while men in my son’s life would be the ones to pass on the hard ones. Wrong! This is how we change outdated traditionalist beliefs that boys should not bother with skills… Continue reading Boys to men, and the mending of souls

Dreams, inner child, Mothering, research, therapy

Podcast: the Soul-Work of Mothering

Aug 21, 2020Aug 21, 2020 aleksandrastaneva

Fancy that! I was on a podcast with Dr Sophie Brock - The Good Enough Mother, where we had the best chat about: • mothering as Soul Work • Mother Wound and the legacy trauma • Death Mother Complex • Dream analysis • Inner child work • Morning pages All things Feminine: the caring, wild… Continue reading Podcast: the Soul-Work of Mothering

inner child, Mothering, therapy

Defenses against early abandonment

Jul 30, 2020 aleksandrastaneva

All of us, but certainly in different degrees, have abandoned parts. Abandoned inner parts which have been ignored, rejected or abused when we we little.Children though come up with the most ingenious defenses against abandonment, which are usually deeply unconscious. 🖤 Denial - a common one. This never happened to me. Life was awesome. I… Continue reading Defenses against early abandonment

About me, fairy tales, inner child, Lists, lived experiences, nature, Self-care, workshops

On the need and the power of Rituals

Jul 14, 2020Aug 7, 2021 aleksandrastaneva

The importance and need for ritual has been pushed away from dominant cultural norms. If primitive men and women engaged in rituals on a regular basis and acknowledged and celebrated each milestone with a proper rite of passage, modern humans deliberately and mindlessly bypass such parts of life, deeming them outdated, wishy-washy, and just unnecessary.… Continue reading On the need and the power of Rituals

inner child, Mothering, therapy

I can rage when you hurt me, without losing you?

Jun 13, 2020 aleksandrastaneva

👧🏻 Inner child 👧🏻Reflecting on my own search of true self, you know…just a gentle weekend task of light existential dread…that those of us engage in on a regular basis (overintellualizing and its functions is part of what this post will be about, so bear with me). As Alice Miller, a great Psychoanalyst, shares her… Continue reading I can rage when you hurt me, without losing you?