Jacob's Ladder

Writing (mostly poetry and musings in a journal), has been an integral part of my eight-year therapeutic process with the Jungian analyst Elizabeth Martiny in Johannesburg, South Africa. Usually, the analytic experience has prompted me to write in order to take the exploration further, or to contain difficult feelings, or in some cases I have used Jung's idea of the active imagination to develop intimations I have had. I believe that writing has a huge potential for healing.

A poem written while working with unresolved grief at the death of my father when I was thirteen years old.