Category: Embodiment (Body)
The Cassandra complex - Denial of the body's truth
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2025-11-20 17:51:00
The body as a vessel of silenced truth finds a potent metaphor in the Greek myth of Cassandra, the prophetess whose true visions were condemned to disbelief. Her story mirrors the tension between inner knowing and outer invalidation, when intuitive or embodied insight is dismissed by consciousness or the collective.
You are a living library
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2025-11-06 19:44:15
Your body a source of wisdom beyond your wildest imagination. Your DNA carries the stories of all your ancestors; as well as the potential of your descendants. In your cellular memory lies the answers to all your questions. The body expresses what the psyche cannot articulate - through somatic sensations, symptoms, or affective states.
The Body as Personal Shadow
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2024-08-06 18:59:23
Instinctual drives and violent affective responses are deeply embedded in the body, representing the personal shadow that threatens psychological stability and requires defense mechanisms.
Jungian perspective on the body
Author: Denise Grobbelaar
Date Published: 2023-05-03 00:02:36
Not all communications use language. The psyche uses the body to communicate dissociated emotional experiences. The body remembers everything that ever happened to us. The human body is a carrier of trauma, unfinished business, unlived potentials, deep psychological insights, and sacred meanings.