“When you shine the light, darkness disappears.
We may understand this as a kind of fight between light and darkness, but in reality, it is an embrace...
...[You must be strong enough] to embrace your fear or anger and transform it...in a nonviolent, non-dualistic way.”
Primal tensions can bind, entangle, block, and bury us. They can also save and protect us. We have wrestled these confounding factors into seven statements that guide therapy, inform our achievement, and protect our intrinsic rights.
At Psynergy, we hold these truths to be both elusive and self-evident:
- We all have the right to be here and exist, and sometimes, life's challenges force us to shut down to keep going.
- It takes courage to seek help, and stamina to risk receiving it. We all have the right to need something.
- We all have the right to autonomy with support, knowing that intimacy with others is initially an inside job.
- We all have the right to connected attachment and connected detachment, the ebb and flow of intimacy.
- We all have the right to speak our own truth, and, unless we know our story, we will repeat it.
- We all have the right to follow our own bliss. To find it, we have to know that our very successful survival strategies of the past that protected us, and those we love, and our happiness, can become maladaptive and destructive. They must therefore be replaced by better, less costly defenses.
- We have an amazing capacity to adapt to, and normalize, exhausting and existential struggles with relationships, depression, anxiety, grief and loss, addictions, trauma, stage-of-life and end-of-life issues. In all of this, we have the right to find our own spiritual path.