where the rhizomes roam
therapeutic coaching
nourishing roots & tending shoots
along the winding path to essence
"Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome.
Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome.
The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer.
Then it withers away—
an ephemeral apparition...
What we see is the blossom, which passes.
The rhizome remains."
-c.g. jung
Like a rhizome,
meandering uniquely specific and particularly
determined path,
Enchanted and engaged by both
the mundane and the magic
along the way,
The whimsical and wild windings inspire
serious yet spontaneous
bursts of meaning-making,
Treasuring self and surroundings
in wholehearted exchanges of
individuated expression.
Moments fill with grounded grace,
unfettered by the challenges of the unknown,
facilitating dynamic growth
beyond the deep grooves of the familiar.
with admirable depth and dignity,
Rhythms conducive to well-being,
flow naturally,
and seek the needed balance and stability
for the
simultaneous ascent and descent,
along
this ever-enlarging journey
toward coherence, purpose, and significance.
"The psyche is not of today;
its ancestry goes back
many millions of years.
Individual consciousness is only the flower and the fruit of a season,
sprung from the perennial rhizome beneath the earth;
and it would find itself
in better accord with the truth
if it took the existence of the rhizome into its calculations.
For the root matter
is the mother of all things."
~c.g. jung
through wisps and hints
echoes and approximations,
obscure insights intimate a way of being
filled with a gentle knowing
without discernible beginning or end
yet enduring and evolving
through phases of destruction and rebirth
seeking harmony and reciprocity with
and guidance from
all that surrounds.
like the rhizome pulled by the opposing poles
of the grounding presence below
and
uplifting spirits above
the generative power of a nurturing environment
honors the powerful forces from both above and below
roots in bedrock bathed in ancestral wisdom
influential winds above whisper melodies of longing and belonging
the transformational relationship between the two
fueling the dance of becoming
an evolving endeavor
of tending the garden of imaginatively rich possibilities
fostering a field of humanity
in service of healing
erin s. phillips
master of arts in counseling psychology
650-530-7090