Marta's upcoming book is a teaching memoir, combining her approach to dreamwork as a psychotherapist for 30 years, and her own dreams and transformative life experiences, demonstrating the power of dreamwork to heal our most painful situations, including those passed down through generations.
Her stories weave a lifelong tale of fears, mysteries, clues, imagination, visitations and healing. The book encompasses the personal terrain of inner struggles, the context of family dynamics, ancestral and collective experience, and our interconnectedness with all beings. Her journey shows how we can receive gifts for our own healing, and then offer our gifts to others.
If you are already a dreamer, you'll learn new ways to interact with your dreams. If you'd like to increase your recall or find your way back to a part of yourself you've forgotten, this book will inspire you to deepen your relationship with the amazing world of dreaming.
Her stories weave a lifelong tale of fears, mysteries, clues, imagination, visitations and healing. The book encompasses the personal terrain of inner struggles, the context of family dynamics, ancestral and collective experience, and our interconnectedness with all beings. Her journey shows how we can receive gifts for our own healing, and then offer our gifts to others.
If you are already a dreamer, you'll learn new ways to interact with your dreams. If you'd like to increase your recall or find your way back to a part of yourself you've forgotten, this book will inspire you to deepen your relationship with the amazing world of dreaming.
Dreaming in the Midnight Forest: Dreamwork for Personal and Collective Healing
Each night we fall asleep and enter the dark, uncharted territory of the midnight forest, densely populated by creatures not seen in the light of day, conjured by our wildest imagination and waiting to be cast into the stories playing out for all who venture into their tangled woods. Dreamers travel into the liminal realms through the psychic systems of tree roots, underground caves and rivers to meet the ones who spin the webs of interconnection, be they animal, vegetable, mineral, spiritual.
Each morning we bring back clues as to our whereabouts during the night, a little mud on our feet, a small stone in our hand, but things look different in daylight. We squint our eyes and tilt our heads trying to bring back the clear visions, but the morning mist has risen and obscured our sight. Dreamwork offers a pathway back into these strange lands. We re-enter the mysterious realms of our nighttime ramblings with our flashlights and compasses, our questions and our journals, knowing that the journey will give us valuable clues for understanding the challenges of our daytime existence.
Each night we fall asleep and enter the dark, uncharted territory of the midnight forest, densely populated by creatures not seen in the light of day, conjured by our wildest imagination and waiting to be cast into the stories playing out for all who venture into their tangled woods. Dreamers travel into the liminal realms through the psychic systems of tree roots, underground caves and rivers to meet the ones who spin the webs of interconnection, be they animal, vegetable, mineral, spiritual.
Each morning we bring back clues as to our whereabouts during the night, a little mud on our feet, a small stone in our hand, but things look different in daylight. We squint our eyes and tilt our heads trying to bring back the clear visions, but the morning mist has risen and obscured our sight. Dreamwork offers a pathway back into these strange lands. We re-enter the mysterious realms of our nighttime ramblings with our flashlights and compasses, our questions and our journals, knowing that the journey will give us valuable clues for understanding the challenges of our daytime existence.
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[email protected]
Follow her on social media:
https://www.facebook.com/marta.aarli
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Writing this book has been an amazing experience:
"My dreams have made it clear they want to help me write this book, by offering their counsel and gathering into constellations that amplify their messages. It’s been a profound surprise to find that as I write this book, it is rewriting my life, with characters and experiences coming into clearer view and weaving into bigger stories.
We are mutually unfolding, my book and I, in the reciprocity of co-creation. When I began, I didn’t know that my dreams, written down over all these years, would be collaborating so richly in my project of commingling memoir and teachings on dreamwork. Ten years of psychoanalysis set the groundwork for this intensive dream synthesis, going deeper and wider than I'd previously imagined.
My dreams are gathering around me, holding this community of parts together in a circle of support as I sit at my writing desk."
~ Marta Aarli