There is room for all of you, inside of you. Rather than rejecting and casting away unwanted parts of ourselves into the shadow, we can instead make more internal space to hold all of who we are without judgment. Rather than healing, we can strive for wholeness, embracing all of the complexities that can come with a deeply lived and soulful life. In this episode, I will describe a metaphorical framework that I have begun using to create this internal space in order to nourish a more soulful life. This framework includes cultivating and tending to your inner world the way you would a landscape, as well as creating infinite space inside a "home" for all of the parts of your psyche. At the end of the episode I will lead a guided meditation, where I will walk you through a practice to integrate some of what was mentioned during the episode. 

References and Recommendations:

• Care of the Soul by Thomas Moore
• "The Guest House" by Rumi- you can listen to it in the track "Kaleidoscope" by Coldplay
• To learn more about Yogananda, visit: https://yogananda.org/. I also highly recommend any of his books, especially Autobiography of a Yogi.