I’ve been sitting with Dr. Matthew Bennett’s (2024) Four Quadrants of Personality from his book Toward an Integrated Analytical Psychology. His system borrows from traditional psychoanalytic structures but reframes them in a way that feels less about pathology and more about motion. What excites me is the idea that health isn’t about fixing what’s wrong, but rather about moving and circulating…
Rushing to work the other day, I saw that Jack Kornfield was giving a talk called "Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart." In just reading that title, my right shoulder loosened up. I texted a little slower. My jaw loosened. And then I felt a surging gratitude for the relationships in my life. I believe that all of us, when our basic needs are met, want to be seeing with the eyes of the heart. From a…
Fritz and Laura Perls, the originators of Gestalt therapy, called this place The Fertile Void, a state of emptiness that can lead to something new. This void has the power to destroy us and to transform us.
Growing up in a religious context and with a civil engineer father, Rogers was a scholar who eventually produced “19 propositions” about humans and personality.