by Jessica Forrest, PhD | Jun 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
June 7, 2022 (7:49am Pacific) The First Quarter phase of the lunar cycle is all about taking action to implement your intentions set at the New Moon. It’s time to make decisions and take steps to realize your hopes and dreams. Virgo is an Earth sign, and Earth...
by Jessica Forrest, PhD | Jun 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thoughts “The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus. Psychedelic medicine often brings us face-to-face with the feelings, thoughts, behaviours, and stories that are holding us back and preventing us from realizing our intention. Sometimes what...
by Jessica Forrest, PhD | May 30, 2022 | Uncategorized
May 30th, 2022 – 4:30am Pacific Time At each New Moon, the sun and moon reside in the same zodiac sector. This means that the New Moon will fall within the archetype of the current sun season. The zodiac archetypes embody particular energies and characteristics...
by Jessica Forrest, PhD | May 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Thoughts I sat in conversation with a woman two years ago who spoke a line of wisdom that absolutely blew my mind: The body is the unconscious. With my background in psychology, I was familiar with Freudian and Jungian approaches to studying the unconscious, but what...
by Jessica Forrest, PhD | Mar 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
I emerged from a strict Roman Catholic upbringing with a strong resistance and aversion to anything spiritual or religious. At the same time, I was intensely curious about those realms. I had experienced unhealthy expressions of spirituality and repressive doctrine,...
by Jessica Forrest, PhD | Jan 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Shame is an adaptive survival response. As a small, vulnerable child it’s safer to believe that we are not worthy of being taken care of than to believe that our caregivers are not able to take care of us. If there is something wrong with us, then maybe there’s...
