International Mental Health
Supporting Mental Wellbeing in the community
Together with the excellent crew at 'Your Living City' I have written a series of articles about my most recent relocation from Holland to Sweden. Those articles can be found here
For articles with a more philosophical and transpersonal content you can find me at my Healthy Neurotics home on Substack.
If you are curious about by anything that I write, or if you have your own subjects you would like me to cover, then please feel free to contact me.
Be Still
Be still, just breathe
and I will breathe through you
Be still, just breathe, and all will be well.
Heart, be still,
and I will beat through you
Heart, be still, and all will be well.
Mind, be still,
and let me breathe through you
Mind, be still
and all will be well
Be still, just breathe
and I will breathe through you
Be still, just breathe
and all will be well
Nederhorst
2015
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The shadow as a guide to new inner frontiers
International nomads have much in common; a sense of adventure, courage, adaptability and even a touch of the romantic. We flock together because we find a sense of belonging in ‘otherness’. Having attempted to woe our new neighbours with muffins and homemade lasagna, we may give up and settle for the easy intimacy of the international crowd. An intimacy that can sometimes lead to a feeling of ‘us’ incomers, against ‘them’.
The great psychoanalyst Jung once said that everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. And this reflects a wonderful inner psychological dance. Unconsciously we strive for inner equilibrium and harmony. Our psyche constantly calls us out on ‘rescuing’ self-aspects that have disappeared into the shadows.