Life Counseling and Healing Arts

02/06/2026

A Healing Journey to Reconnect with Your True Self
Step beyond the noise into something older, quieter and real to truly hear yourself. The forest is not a backdrop, it is a living environment that responds with healing when you meet it with presence.

Forest Bath is a slow, mindful journey through nature, guided by Orit, designed to restore balance, calm the mind, and awaken the senses. Drawing inspiration from Shinrin-Yoku, the Japanese practice, experience blends science-backed wellness with deep sensory immersion.

Research shows that spending time in forest environments reduces stress, lowers cortisol levels, and improves autonomic nervous system regulation. Exposure to phytoncides, biologically active compounds released by trees enhances immune function.
Contact with nature supports mental clarity, emotional balance, and overall well-being, while promoting restorative sleep and smooth digestion, naturally sustaining vitality and healthy weight. With regular guided Forest Baths, anxiety can diminish completely.

The experience begins at the forest’s edge, with slow, breathwork, and gentle Tai Chi steps. Roles, expectations, and mental noise gradually fall away. The attention softens, the mind loosens, and the body begins to listen.
Contact with the ground, the air, a single tree, invites a profound sense of presence.

Orit guides you through Active Imagination, a method developed by Carl Gustav Jung, opening a conscious dialogue with the unconscious through imagery and embodied awareness, allowing hidden aspects to surface and integrate with clarity and ease. A quiet aliveness often emerges, as if something essential inside has reconnected.

Guided by Orit, Forest Bath is effortless, safe, and deeply restorative. Every element is held with care, creating an environment for surrender, sensory awareness, and renewal.

🎁 Treat yourself! Orit offers a monthly group experience every penultimate week of the month. Private sessions are available for individuals or couples seeking a more personalized, immersive journey.

01/29/2026

What is the Hero’s Journey?
The Hero’s Journey, or monomyth, is Joseph Campbell’s timeless pattern of transformation a universal blueprint found in myths, stories, and human lives across all cultures. Introduced in his landmark book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), it reveals how the hero (you, me, any seeker) answers a call to leave the ordinary world, faces trials in the unknown, undergoes profound change, and returns transformed to share the gift.

Campbell distilled it into three essential stages echoing ancient rites of passage:
1. Departure (Separation). The hero is pulled (or pushes) from the familiar: a Call to Adventure arrives, often refused at first out of fear or comfort. With supernatural aid (a mentor, an inner whisper, a synchronicity), the hero crosses the threshold into the mysterious realm leaving behind the known self.

2. Initiation. Here the real ordeal unfolds: trials, allies, enemies, the descent to the deepest point (the “belly of the whale” or inmost cave). The hero confronts the ultimate challenge death/rebirth, atonement, sacred union gaining illumination, a boon, or elixir. This is the heart of transformation: expansion of consciousness, integration of opposites, awakening to wholeness.

3. Return. The hero must bring the treasure back: often facing a final test to re-enter the ordinary world. Master of two worlds, they live with newfound freedom, bestowing boons wisdom, healing, inspiration on others.

In Campbell’s words: “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow men.”

This is not just ancient myth it’s your map for personal growth, breaking old cycles, and living authentically. Your Diagnostic Session is the threshold crossing the first step on your Hero’s Journey.

01/28/2026

What is the Shadow Work?

Shadow work is the courageous, transformative process of confronting and integrating the hidden, repressed side of the personality.
The Shadow contains everything we’ve pushed out of conscious awareness: qualities we deem unacceptable, inferior or shameful rage, envy, greed, selfishness, aggression, weakness, unacknowledged talents, instincts, and desires that clash with societal norms and our ideal persona.

It includes not only “negative” impulses but also positive potentials we’ve disowned (e.g., creativity, assertiveness, vulnerability labeled “weak”). The Shadow is partly personal (shaped by our unique biography) and partly collective (influenced by cultural taboos, often projected onto groups or “others”).
Left unintegrated, the Shadow can grow denser, sabotaging us through projections (seeing our flaws in others), recurring moods, self-sabotage, or sudden outbursts. It fuels inner conflict and blocks our full vitality.

Shadow work the integration process begins with gentle recognition: noticing projections, emotional triggers, dreams or recurring patterns where the Shadow appears (often as a same-sex figure, trickster or “dark twin” in inner imagery). Through honest self-reflection, journaling, active imagination or guided dialogue we withdraw projections, own these parts without judgment or full identification and assimilate their energy consciously.

Integration doesn’t erase the Shadow (it’s an inexhaustible part of us), but it transforms it: repressed vitality becomes creative power, anger becomes healthy boundaries, envy becomes inspiration. This releases locked energy, fosters wholeness, quiets inner war and opens the door to deeper self-discovery as the essential first stage of individuation. Without embracing the Shadow, fuller encounters with the Self remain out of reach.

“Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.”
C.G. Jung

Shadow work is therefore a profound invitation, a journey inward that leads to greater authenticity, compassion, and renewed life force.

01/28/2026

What if the voice in your head is the real reason you’re exhausted, even on your “good” days?

It’s created inside us in the quiet, relentless way we speak to ourselves when no one else is around.

We search for the root of our pain everywhere outside: other people, the endless hustle, past betrayals, economic uncertainty, even the foggy mornings that never quite lift. But usually, it’s not the event itself that crushes us, it’s the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Events are neutral.

A relationship ends. A project falls through. A dream doesn’t land the way we hoped.
We decide what it signifies through old scars, childhood conclusions, or that inner voice that never quite lets up.

Thoughts like
😞 “I’m not worthy”
😒 “I’m not enough”
😣 “I always mess this up”
😖 “Everyone else is ahead and I’m falling behind”
🤯 “This proves I’m fundamentally broken”
land in the body like real danger.

Your nervous system doesn’t distinguish between “I might be rejected” and “I’ve already been rejected.” So it stays locked in fight-flight-freeze: tense shoulders, shallow breath, constant low-grade exhaustion.

That’s often where psychosomatic symptoms step in when we’ve spent years pushing down anger, sadness, burnout, or a simple “no.” The body finally speaks the truth the mind won’t allow: “We can’t keep doing this.” Sometimes pain or illness becomes the only acceptable reason to pause and rest.

The choice is straightforward (though rarely easy): Keep acting as your own harshest judge and inner critic, or start becoming the steady presence that doesn’t abandon or attack you in hard moments.

Healing doesn’t require instant, flawless self-love.
It begins the moment you stop feeding the self-attack one gentler thought at a time.

When we work together, we map your inner landscape:
☀️Where do you turn against yourself?
☀️Which automatic thoughts keep draining your energy?
☀️What message is your body quietly (or loudly) trying to deliver?

This isn’t about slapping on labels or chasing quick fixes.

It’s about clear seeing, pattern recognition, and slowly reclaiming the ability to choose a kinder inner dialogue.

You don’t have to silence the critic completely right away.
Just stop giving it so much airtime.

The relief, the reclaimed energy, the feeling of finally being on your own side that follows.

Ready to turn down the volume on the inner noise and start feeling more at home in your own life?
Let’s talk.

01/27/2026

What is the Self?
The Self (with a capital “S”) is one of Carl Jung’s core archetypes the archetype of wholeness and the totality of the psyche. It represents the complete personality: the union of conscious and unconscious elements, encompassing the ego, the shadow, the persona, anima/animus, and the deeper layers of the collective unconscious.

Unlike the ego (our everyday sense of “I,” focused on adaptation and identity in the outer world), the Self is the greater, organizing center often described as the “God within us” or the inner guiding principle. It acts as a blueprint for our potential, drawing us toward balance, meaning, and authentic living through the process of individuation.

Jung portrayed the Self as both the center and the circumference of the psyche: a dynamic force that unites opposites (light/dark, masculine/feminine, conscious/unconscious) and manifests in symbols like mandalas, circles, or the union of yin and yang. Encounters with it can feel numinous awe-inspiring, sacred, or profoundly transformative.

In essence: the Self is not something we achieve or “become”; it is what we already are at the deepest level. Individuation is the lifelong journey of realizing and aligning with this wholeness, moving from fragmentation to integrated, purposeful existence.

01/26/2026

What is the Individuation?
It is Carl Jung’s concept of the process of self-realization, integrating conscious and unconscious elements to become one’s true, whole Self.

Individuation is not a goal to achieve or a personality upgrade. It is a lifelong movement toward wholeness.

It is the process through which a person becomes who they truly are, not who they were taught to be, not who was required for survival, not who fit into family roles, social masks, or cultural expectations. Individuation is the gradual integration of what is conscious and what has been pushed into the unconscious: instincts, fears, desires, creativity, shadow, sensitivity, power.

This path is not about self-improvement. It is about self-recovery.

Most people live as fragments. One part performs, another adapts, another hides, another carries old wounds. Individuation begins when the psyche can no longer maintain this split. Symptoms appear. Crises emerge. Depression, anxiety, emptiness, loss of meaning. These are not failures. They are signals that the false structure is no longer sustainable.

These moments as invitations. Not to fix what is broken, but to meet what has been excluded.

Through dreams, emotions, body responses, and inner conflicts, the unconscious speaks. Individuation means learning to listen. It is the art of turning inward without collapsing, of facing what is uncomfortable without drowning in it, of allowing inner opposites to coexist instead of fighting for dominance.

The result is not perfection. It is integrity.

A person who walks this path becomes less reactive, less driven by unconscious patterns, less dependent on external validation. Life is no longer lived from roles and defenses, but from an inner center. Choices start coming from alignment rather than fear.

Individuation does not make life easier. It makes it real.

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01/23/2026

Your mind is like a mirror, absorbing the energy, attitudes, and intentions of those around you. Spending time with people who don’t see your worth can quietly shape your inner world, casting a shadow over how you view yourself. But there’s another side: surrounding yourself with those who inspire growth and support can awaken strengths you didn’t even know you had.

You are a star, carrying a unique light within. As your guide, I create a space where that light can shine brighter, helping you tap into your inner resources to overcome obstacles and find paths to balance and clarity. Here, your aspirations are met with encouragement, and your challenges become opportunities for growth.

This process isn’t just self-work—it’s a collaborative journey that opens new perspectives and empowers you to feel your own strength. By choosing an environment that uplifts you, you give yourself the chance to shine. Start your journey today.

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Each person is unique, carrying a world within, a blend of experiences, strengths, and challenges that shape who you are. A Diagnostic Session is such an important first step. It’s about addressing your concerns, being truly seen, and receiving he

11/13/2025

Many people reach a point where burnout stops being a temporary phase and becomes an internal reality. On the outside, everything may look steady a solid career, financial stability, a life that appears “put together.” But inside, something starts to feel empty. Achievements no longer bring fulfillment. The sense of meaning fades. Doubt grows. There’s a quiet fear of slowing down and a deep fatigue from holding up the same version of yourself for too long.

This is a crisis in which your familiar identity begins to crack. The things that used to motivate you don’t work anymore, and suppressed emotions rise to the surface. Old fears, unfulfilled desires, and the parts of yourself you hid behind success begin to speak louder. It can feel heavy: a loss of purpose, loneliness, self-blame, and a frustrating gap between who you were and who you’re becoming.

And yet these moments often become the beginning of real growth. Resilience isn’t born from avoidance , it comes from the ability to stay present with difficult states and use them as a foundation for something new. Emotional maturity is the capacity to meet yourself honestly, to recognize your internal rhythms, the natural “down-and-up” cycles of being human. That’s where individuation begins: an adult, grounded encounter with your inner world. Success stops being the compass and becomes a tool. Life starts to build itself from meaning, clarity, and inner stability.

I’ve spent many years supporting people through these internal landslides, those turning points when the old structure falls apart and something more authentic starts to take shape. There are no quick fixes here, but there is a path. And you don’t have to walk it alone.