Send us Fan Mail Jared and Melissa discuss what they term the "unfolding" which is getting to the point where you are comfortable showing up as yourself in the world. Getting past living life for validation of others. The idea of "going first" is explored as well as finding communities where it is safe to do so.

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared discuss the concept of the predator. When we are small we make deals to keep ourselves safe. As we grow up the predator feeds on the energy of those promises when they don't work in the current context. We have to use our adult self to identify and break those old promises and make new agreements that fit our current context. Jared and Melissa share personal examples.

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared talk about the polarity between the masculine archetype and the feminine archetype. Compares to the Jungian concept of the Anima and Animus. We must wake up to the one end of the polarity that is operating within us, or we can’t see the other end of the polarity. Healthy development of both is discussed.

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared speak to the body and how the society socializes us to be disembodied. We look at the body as something to be ignored or shaped to fit a certain image that really makes the body an enemy. How we learn to listen to what the body has to say is discussed and several examples given. Authenticity without embodiment is performance. The body can hold what arises. The body is where we go to interrupt the ego interpretation or story. &n...

Send us Fan Mail The Vessel. Pulling from the concepts of alchemy as identified by Carl Jung. When experiences happen, when those images come from soul we need to create a container that we can hold these experiences in. Like a beaker in a chemistry experience, there are three qualities this container, this vessel, must have: 1) Clarity-awakening to what is going on. Putting a name to the experience that is arising. It will be hard to get clarity if we are hiding...

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared explore the call. The soul speaks to us using images, imagination, and dreams. If we pay attention to the images that arise in our consciousness, we will start to gain a deeper understanding of what the soul is trying to say to us. "How we are with the image, affects how freely the images feels to show itself."--Frances Weller. We have to slow down and sit with the images to understand what the image is trying to tell us. Someti...

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared cover the topic of "The Wound." There is a discussion about approaching the wound, verses managing the symptoms that are uncomfortable. With enough experience the Soul acquires a wound that is meant to awaken us. The wound does not need a origin story. Some personal examples are shared. "We want to not fix what is broken, but to have what is broken blessed." The soul is unattached to the stories we tell ourselves. When we ...

Send us Fan Mail Jared and Melissa talk about another line of defense that can keep us asleep and that is the story we tell about ourselves. The energy around the "should" may allow us to see lives and stories in a new way, and because we are the narrators of our story we can tell the story in a different way. The suggestion of living life as an improvisational actor rather then an actor in a play with a well worn script. Stories come out in our Enneagram types. ...

Send us Fan Mail Melissa and Jared talk about the concept of the Inner Critic. A model of soul development is introduced where we go from Essence, to Ego, to Encapsulation and ultimately try to move to Expansion. An earlier version of ourselves creates a set of rules and an operating system in order to survive. As we get older a voice develops that keeps us encapsulated into the person we think we need to be and then this contrived self needs to stay in this pattern by using...

Send us Fan Mail Jared and Melissa share how we are asleep in so many ways. How can we tell if we are asleep and how do we wake up? And why would we want to wake up if life seems to be going okay?