Sue Dalby Psychology

25/11/2025

Do not love half lovers
Do not entertain half friends
Do not live half a life
and do not die a half death

If you choose silence, then be silent
When you speak, do so until you are finished
Do not silence yourself to say something
And do not speak to be silent

If you accept, then express it bluntly
Do not mask it
If you refuse then be clear about it
for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance

Do not accept half a solution
Do not believe half truths
Do not dream half a dream
Do not fantasize about half hopes

Half the way will get you no where
Half an idea will bear you no results

Half a life is a life you didn't live,
A word you have not said
A smile you postponed
A love you have not had
A friendship you did not know

The half is a mere moment of inability
but you are able for you are not half a being
You are a whole that exists to live a life
not half a life.
~ Khalil Gibran ~

Photo: The image is a digital art piece titled "The Taste of the Stars" by an artist known as rbka.

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

25/11/2025

20/11/2025

19/07/2025

It's time for change. Im over the idea of keeping "safe".
A question: How has playing safe helped you, particularly as a woman and how this "playing safe" has held you back? 🥰

22/06/2025

Just wanted you all to know

07/06/2025

WORKING ON WHAT HURTS INSIDE AS AN ACT OF SOUVEREIGNTY

In these times of uncertainty and struggles on a personal and collective level, working on what hurts inside is the most powerful act of Personal Advocacy and Social Activism we can engage on---Because as One Heals, We all Heal!!!

As one Remembers, we all Remember our Divine Nature.

I have come to believe that the most powerful way of standing against the systematic labeling of human minds is to do our own healing work...our own Soul Work.

Because we are all affecting the world every moment, whether we are aware of it or not. Because we are Interdependent...We are Inter-Being...We are Social Beings...And together we heal each other and the Soul of the World...

Our states of mind and the well-being of our inner world matters because we're so deeply interconnected with one another. We all belong to the same Universal Puzzle.

To do our inner work, to heal what hurts inside, to know who we are in times of social unrest becomes an act of rebellion, an act of revolution and defiance in the face of oppression and cruelty.

So, do what you can. Heal what hurts. Become independent of trauma you endured. Reframe and give a new meaning to your suffering. Put it in the context of the whole, not only as a mirror of what happened to you. Something happens to all of us. But staying in the wound, that's how the system has power over us.

When the wounds bleed, we are not participants in the making of our world. We will continue projecting. We will continue hiding and not offering our gifts for the ennobling of humanity.

To me, from early on in my healing journey, to do my inner work was an act of duty. Not only to myself, but to the whole. Not only to be free of my suffering, but with the purpose of giving back to the Collective, the Universal Puzzle to which we all belong to, either we know it or not.

It is not fair that my fellow human beings, you... are subject to my unhealed energy I release in the Collective, the Universal Puzzle of all our energies. So, I took my healing seriously. For myself, for the people around me, for the benefit of the Whole.

And in times as such, I want to walk the face of the earth as who I am meant to be, so I can contribute to the ennobling of our world. To make sure that I am paying attention and to know how to be of service.

So, I write. I hold space in writing ateliers. Because I want with all my heart to know that all women are free of their trauma. That all women tell their true story, not the story shadowed by the labels, the trauma they had to endure.

So... yes, this is where I stand.

Working on what hurts inside is an act of sovereignty.

It becomes an act of self-love, an act of defiance, an act of love for humanity..................................................................
Refection by Archaeology for the Woman's Soul
Corina Andronache

18/05/2025

“I've been thinking about what it would have been like for our mothers and grandmothers, and their mothers and grandmothers.

What was it like for our ancestors who were women to live in a man's world?

What was it like to have your dreams minimized to fit in very narrow roles? What was it like to have your menstruation shamed, and your sexuality shamed, abused, or repressed? What was it like to have limits placed on your education, your knowledge, or your ability to speak your mind freely and safely?

What was it like to be told what to believe, what to wear, and what to look like? What was it like to be unable to divorce when your husband abused you? What was it like to be expected to marry if you didn't want that? Or to be expected to have children if you didn't want to become a mother, or to encounter miscarriages, or the death of children without the emotional and medical support that is available today?

It wasn't so uncommon that women who came before us encountered physical and/or emotional abuse from men that returned from war, who themselves were traumatized by what they experienced. Back then counseling, medication, and other healing modalities were not practiced, so pain was/is passed on from generation to generation.

When we have compassion on the women who went before us, then we can begin to transform our own grief and healing about what we may not have received. Our own self-compassion allows us to be compassionate toward the women in our lineage who loved imperfectly. Honor the journey and struggle of all women and mothers who came before you.

Honor the liberation and progress that has been made by other women, even as we are still freeing ourselves from others' expectations, others' definitions, and others' limited concepts about our purpose for being.
~Essay by Chantal Morales McKinley~

Photo: Painting by Jeanie Tomanek titled "Where Wings Begin"

Archaeology for the Woman's Soul

28/05/2023

I am inviting menopausal women who struggle with embarrassment and anxiety about being judged by others due to unpredictable physical and emotional experiences in the workplace and personal life to contact me as I can help you regain confidence and control in these difficult situations and enhance understanding in important relationships.
All I am asking for is 30 minutes of your time via zoom as my mission is to create a safe online platform for menopausal and post menopausal women to help change negative beliefs about this important phase of your life and turn the outcome into a positive experience for both yourselves and those around you. So please contact me.

30/05/2022

What came first: harsh parenting techniques or conduct problems in children? This can seem like a chicken and egg problem. A new study published in Child Development finds that there is a reciprocal relationship between parenting style and child behaviors, suggesting that altering parenting behavior...