From Personality to Essence – 5 Levels of Awareness According to Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes
An overview of the first 5 levels of awareness, according to Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes. I find that having a map of how our awareness develop help me to understand both myself and my world better! Cause there´s s a big difference in how a person on level 1 and level 4… approach life.
An Intro To Enneagram Type 9
This essay introduces the last type in the Enneagram of Personality Type: number 9. It describes the childhood pattern of the nine, how the yearning for peace lies at the fundament of this type, the nines trouble with asserting themselves, their idealization pattern - and the 9s angel complex. This essay is an introduction to my online course: Shadow Work Through the Enneagram.
An Intro to Enneagram Type 8
Enneagram personality type 8 overview. 8s are part of the instinctual triad, and this essay adresses the 8 childhood wound, their repressed vulnerability, one-dimentional images of strenght, and the 8th shadow: The underdog. This essay is a teaser for my online course: Shadow Work Through the Enneagram
Exploring the Enneagram Arrows
A central part of the study of the Enneagram is to understand how the archetypes move with the arrows. In this essay I explain what happens when we flip into our connected types unconsciously, and how we can use our arrow points as resources for personal growth. This essay is a critical comment to the terms “direction of integration” and “direction of disintegration” - and is inspired by a podcast by Enneagram experts Beatrice Chestnut and Uranio Paes.
Why I'm On a Tantric Path - Exploring the Crux of Tantra
After spending a week at a tantra festival with a focus on the sexual and relational parts of tantra, Im exploring what the core of tantra is - to me. Im approaching tantra as a path of dedicated work with our life force energy. And a path of embracing all aspects of our human existence: Also our darkness, our challenging feelings and our most primal urges.
I’m Reading “Women Who Run With The Wolves” This Month
Reading Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola-Éstes, I ponder the pain of starving our souls to death - and what it takes to recover. In this essay, originally made for my newsletter, I contemplate the fairytale of Bluebeard. What does it take to face our inner predator, and how do we find our way back to life when we have lost our way?
My Week Alone at a Tantra Festival
In the end of July, I spent a week alone at a tantra camp. I went there curious to get to know the Scandinavian tantric field, and to explore their approach to this word: Tantra.
Whereas I perceive tantra as a spiritual path embracing the depths of my human existence, some associate tantra mostly with relating and sex. In this essay I share my journey through the festival week, while pondering my needs for safety, exploring my heart - and trying to figure out what tantra really is.
5 Spiritual Cliches That Are Giving Me A Headache Right Now
Returning to work after a long time outside of work, Im facing all kinds of challenges - especially in relating harmonically to people around me. In this essay I explore my path back to everyday work - summed up in 5 spiritual cliches Ive tried to live by, but thats turning out to be more complicated to follow than I first thought.
Introducing Word For Woman – A Newsletter On Sexuality, Shadow Work And Conscious Relating
An introduction to my newsletter Word for Woman - letters on sexuality, shadow work and conscious relating. Why should you read it? Because you are ready to go deep; embracing your shadow sides; and step into your most sensual, luscious deep-felt self!
Is Your Meditation or Yoga Practice Just … Spiritual Entertainment?
In itself, standing on our heads for ten minutes a day, sitting still in meditation for hours, volunteering in an ashram, doing nose-cleanses and attending cacao ceremonies, haven’t got anything to do with self-realization. That is… unless we USE THE ENERGY these practices generate to take on our REAL work: The inner one.
Can We Just DECIDE to Forgive Someone – Or Is Forgiveness Something That Must Happen by Itself?
What does it take to forgive someone? And can we just DECIDE to forgive, or is forgiveness something that needs to arise naturally as a result of us embracing our pain? I had a chat with a friend eager to forgive, and in this essay I share my thoughts. Do you agree? Or is forgiveness something different for you?
«What Does It Mean to Be Spiritual?” My Brother Asked Across the Dinner Table
Exploring the relationships with My God Within: my inner voice, my spirit, my nature, she who guides my life and carries my life force energy, she who IS me, and yet is much bigger than me.
My God Within expresses herself through me, yet she exists far beyond the limits of my physical presence.
Tea: I Love You — And I Know You Love Me Too
My ode to Chinese tea ceremonies, because I love them so. And now you can join me for tea in Tønsberg if you like!
Shadow Work And Women’s Dynamics
How shadow work can help reveal subtle and unhealthy relationships dynamics – and assist us in stepping into more supportive relationships
Hello Woman – There You Are, Within Me
An ode to the divine feminine essence. Exploring where and who Woman is, and how to find here in me.
An Intro to Enneagram Type 7
Enneagram personality type 7 overview. The childhood wound, the typical body pattern, and the directions of integration and disintegration. This essay is also a deep dive into the shadow sides of the often simplified seven “Happiness”.
What I Learnt From Dancing Naked In Front of 10 Women I Barely Knew
A story of a very special exercise, that changed my way of being with other women. My curiosity of men and sex had seduced me into the tantric field, but once there: I realized that my most important work wasn’t with men and sex: it was in my relationship with other women.
The Four Steps of Individuation - Self-Realization Demands Much More Than Meditation!
In my experience, it’s really smart to combine several approaches on our quest of self-realization. Cause just as we are complex human creatures, so is our self-realization a complex affair. Based on my own individuation process, I've recognized four aspects I believe all of us have to move through in order to shed our persona, and return to the profundity of just… being US.