by Mary Jo Heyen | Jul 19, 2021 | compassion, death, dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, trauma
In my dreamwork with hospice patients and their families, with grief groups, grief may be felt in the moment or it may be waiting in the wings to make its unexpected entrance. In my work with dream clients, each and every one, even when there isn’t a recent death,...
by Mary Jo Heyen | Mar 15, 2021 | dreams, dying, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, hospice, love, Natural Dreamwork, soul, The Sacred
Leilani Navar of The Dreamers’ Den shares her thoughts from her interview with Natural Dreamwork Practitioner Mary Jo Heyen: This one touched me. All these conversations do, but I felt this one extra deeply. Perhaps it’s Mary Jo’s way of speaking – and her way of...
by Mary Jo Heyen | Mar 4, 2021 | dreams, dying, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, hospice, love, Mystery, Natural Dreamwork, soul
Natural Dreamwork’s Mary Jo Heyen was interviewed by Debbie Spector Weisman of Dream Power Radio about her newly published book, Dreaming into the Mystery: Explorations into Being with the Dreams and Visions of the Dying. Together they explore Mary Jo’s groundbreaking...
by Kat Samworth | Apr 19, 2020 | Arts, dreams, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, Natural Dreamwork, soul, The Sacred, Uncategorized
When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk. -Herman Hesse, Trees: Reflections and Poems Although I wrote this essay two years ago, inspired by a dream from ten years...
by Rodger Kamenetz | Apr 7, 2020 | Arts, Current, death, dreams, dying, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, love, Mystery, Natural Dreamwork, Poetry, relationship, Uncategorized
In Natural Dreamwork I’ve been talking awhile about the most important affirmation about our dreams– whether they are so-called bad dreams or so-called good dreams– the affirmation of the dream itself. That we dream, all of us, this...
by Mary Jo Heyen | Mar 29, 2020 | Arts, children, Current, death, dreams, dying, Feelings, Front Page Slider, grief, healing, love, Mystery, Natural Dreamwork, relationship, soul, spiritual activism, The Sacred, trauma
(During the corona virus crisis images that seem to rhyme with our current distress of who and how to be in unknown times…) In the three decades I had the privilege of teaching middle school and high school I too often found myself sitting on the steps in a stairwell...
