by Laura Smith-Riva | Apr 13, 2022 | desire, dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, healing, soul
The term “conditioning” in Natural Dreamwork refers to all of the habitual patterns, behaviors, reactions and ways of being, conscious and unconscious, that we have developed to cope, survive, and protect in a world where trauma, sacrifice of self, and lack of support...
by Laura Smith-Riva | Nov 19, 2021 | dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, healing, images, Mystery, relationship, soul, The Sacred
The Antlered One by Laura Smith-Riva The Antlered One first came to me in the dreams. She is a wise woman, a protector of the pathways, a teacher and a healer. She is the mystic on the other side of my amazon/warrior. She is deeply mysterious and lives in the...
by Laura Smith-Riva | Jul 8, 2021 | dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, healing, images
Recently someone posited a question on a depth psychology Facebook page asking how does one let the unconscious become conscious. My immediate thought was Dreamwork. Dreams being a portal into the unconscious, our nightly reveries leak into our awareness the very...
by Laura Smith-Riva | Feb 19, 2021 | children, creativity, dreams, Earth, Feelings, Front Page Slider, images, nature
A few years ago I dreamt that a team of archaeologists was conducting a dig out in the field on my property. I went down to where they were to tell them to get off my property! Because, of course they hadn’t asked permission….But when I got down there, it seemed...
by Laura Smith-Riva | Dec 16, 2020 | dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, healing, soul
Phoenix Rising, Form of Girl by Laura Smith-Riva “He whose desire turns away from outer things, reaches the place of the soul. If he does not find the soul, the horror of emptiness will overcome him, and fear will drive him with a whip lashing time and again in...
