Eros

Courting Eros

Erotic Love

Eros, and erotic love, is a deeply soulful desire; a yearning for intimacy. At its core, it is about a longing to know oneself more truly and wholly.

See the myth of Psyche & Eros (or fairy tale for that matter) and the books The Other Goddess and We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love.

Depth Psychology of Romance

We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love by Robert A. Johnson (1983).

Using the myth of Tristan and Iseult, Johnson offers a Jungian lens on romantic love, illuminating how attraction, longing, projection, and heartbreak are tied to our deeper quest for wholeness and self-discovery. Together, we’ll explore how understanding these unconscious dynamics can help us cultivate more conscious, grounded, and soulful partnerships.

There is no audio version for this short and potent book so I have recorded myself reading it. You can listen to He and She on Audible, and of course order any of these from your local bookstore.

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Exploring Passion with Plants

Small group workshops and ceremonies with cacao and other heart-opening plant allies/sacraments, held in the plant-filled journey space in my home. Passionate shadow work themes include:

anger & sacred rage
dark goddesses & the wild woman
courting Eros & true love
healing Scorpionic/Plutonian, root wounds
psychedelic therapy integration
somatics and archetypal embodiment

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We: Understanding the psychology of Romantic Love

Introduction: On Myths

25 mins

Let me tell you a story.

To be more precise, let me read to you a short and potent book about a story— The myth of Tristan and Iseult— and the impact it has on our inner and outer worlds. My very-human reading of the introduction to

We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love by Robert A. Johnson

Part 1 Narrative

14 mins

How Tristan was born and grew up to be a great knight.

Chapter 1: Blanchefleur

12mins

Johnson sets the psychological stage for the entire book. It’s less about romance as a relationship and more about romance as an archetypal experience of the psyche. Blanchefleur marks the initiation into the world of Eros.

Chapter 2: Child of Sadness

8 mins

This chapter about Tristan explores how romantic love is born not from fulfillment, but from an underlying wound—showing that our longing for union often arises from early experiences of loss, abandonment, or unmet emotional needs that awaken the soul’s hunger for wholeness. Johnson suggests that romance carries a deep sadness at its core, because it is an attempt to heal a primordial separation that no human partner can fully repair.

Chapter 3: Islands of Consciousness

7 mins

*Will be uploaded soon

Chapter 4: The Sword & The Harp

12 mins