Dragons, trees, caves, sacred centres and mandala-like patterns sometimes appear in children’s Sandplay. But when does an image become archetypal? Principle 7 explores how we can recognise archetypal imagery without imposing fixed symbolic interpretations on the child.
Imagery in Jungian Sandplay Therapy | Principle 7 Read More »
Explore how the Jungian wounded healer informs Rina Louw’s approach to therapy through compassion, self-awareness and thoughtful boundaries.
The Healing Healer: My Approach to Therapy | Rina Louw Read More »
Superhero figures can easily be dismissed as commercial toys or television characters. Yet children do not necessarily experience them that way. Once a figure enters the sandtray and becomes part of the child’s spontaneous story, it may acquire a deeply personal symbolic function.
PJ Masks in Jungian Sand Play Therapy Read More »
In Jungian Sandplay Therapy, healing does not begin only with words or symbols. Through touching, digging, pouring, shaping and burying sand, the child engages the body and sensorimotor system. Drawing on Jung, Dora Kalff, Daniel Siegel and Bessel van der Kolk, Principle 6 explores how bodily experience may gradually develop into form, image, symbol and meaning.
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A relationship may end, but the emotional and physical effects of what happened within it can remain long afterwards. You may know that the relationship was unhealthy. You may even feel relieved that it is over. Yet your body remains tense, your thoughts return repeatedly to what happened, and trusting yourself—or another person—feels difficult. This
What Is Relationship Trauma? Signs, Effects and Healing Read More »
The ordinary sparrow carries an extraordinary tension between instinct and consciousness, appetite and humility. What can this small bird teach us about shadow, belonging and building a meaningful life one piece at a time?
The Sparrow Symbol: Shadow, Humility and Individuation Read More »
When a child struggles with anger, anxiety, withdrawal, impulsivity or concentration, parents understandably want to know how to stop the difficult behaviour.
Conscious Parenting: Your Child Is Not a Problem to Be Fixed🧰 Read More »
Recently, while watching Spider-Man: Brand New Day, I found myself thinking about the powerful connection between Spider-Man and boys’ emotional development. I thought about a twelve-year-old boy building his first sandplay tray. His enthusiasm for Spider-Man made me wonder: Why does this particular superhero speak so strongly to boys, especially during the years between childhood
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A Jungian approach to recognising your child’s inborn nature When a baby is born, we may imagine that a new life begins as an empty page. We may believe that parenting, education and life experience will write the whole story. In this blog we are looking at a Jungian Approach to parenting. But parents often
Your Child Is Not a Blank Page: A Jungian Approach to Parenting. Read More »
It was early on Sunday morning. When I woke, I immediately knew it was Sunday. There was something different in the silence—the crisp air, the birds and the slower rhythm of the world. I thought how wonderful it would be to share this moment with another soul: simply to drink in the peace together and
