Open in app

Sign In

Write

Sign In

Colleen Szabo
Colleen Szabo

8 Followers

Home

About

Oct 30, 2022

From Trauma to Wholeness #2

This article is a continuation of From Trauma to Wholeness: Brothers Grimm’s Fitcher’s Bird. We left the story with the murder and dismemberment of the first girl; now the wizard says “I will fetch myself the second”, for there are three sisters in the story. Again, he magically steals the…

Jungian Symbolism

12 min read

From Trauma to Wholeness #2
From Trauma to Wholeness #2
Jungian Symbolism

12 min read


Oct 29, 2022

From Trauma to Wholeness: Brothers Grimm’s Fitcher’s Bird

Here is a version of the story, if you wish to read it: Fitcher’s Bird It is not necessary to read the story to understand this symbolic interpretation of it, however. Fitcher’s Bird is one of the Grimms’ relatively short and sweet transformational tales, featuring a few symbolically encoded bits…

Symbolic Interpretation

15 min read

From Trauma to Wholeness: Brothers Grimm’s Fitcher’s Bird
From Trauma to Wholeness: Brothers Grimm’s Fitcher’s Bird
Symbolic Interpretation

15 min read


Sep 10, 2022

Life’s Meaning and Hell’s Gates

Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric mov’d: To rear me was the task of power divine, Supremest wisdom, and primeval love. Before me things create were…

Life Meaing

10 min read

Life’s Meaning and Hell’s Gates
Life’s Meaning and Hell’s Gates
Life Meaing

10 min read


Jun 30, 2022

In Love With Father Sky: Algonquin tale The Rough-Face Girl

I ran across this story in an illustrated children’s book: image above obviously. Most reviewers tout it as a Cinderella story, and that’s true, for our nameless protagonist is indeed a cinderbiter (see my previous article on cinderbiting here). Rafe Martin fleshes the story out nicely, but out of respect…

Algonquin Story

16 min read

In Love With Father Sky: Algonquin tale The Rough-Face Girl
In Love With Father Sky: Algonquin tale The Rough-Face Girl
Algonquin Story

16 min read


Jun 12, 2022

Rumpelstiltskin: Reclaiming Our Creative Power

Rumpelstiltskin is a teaching tale concerning the ways in which we give our creativity away, with some pointers on reclamation. In the story, the miller father and the king are in cahoots to enslave the daughter/queen; thus it’s a teaching on what we call toxic patriarchy. Toxic patriarchy can be…

Symbolic Interpretation

19 min read

Rumpelstiltskin: Reclaiming Our Creative Power
Rumpelstiltskin: Reclaiming Our Creative Power
Symbolic Interpretation

19 min read


May 21, 2022

Towers, Trauma, and Toxicity: Symbolism of We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)

“… a change is coming, and nobody knows it but me.” Merricat in opening scene at desk I was super excited to discover We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a remake of Shirley Jackson’s final 1962 novel. Symbolically encoded subtext appears in lots of film, as it does in…

Symbolic Film

35 min read

Towers, Trauma, and Toxicity: Symbolism of We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
Towers, Trauma, and Toxicity: Symbolism of We Have Always Lived in the Castle (2018)
Symbolic Film

35 min read


Mar 10, 2021

Untangling Suffering: Sedna, Creatrix Under the Sea

The story of Sedna, Inuit sea goddess, has a number of variations- usual for myths, of course. Some versions focus on social conditioning; Sedna the mortal young woman judged as vain, idly combing her hair, insulting suitors with rejection, and rebelling against her traditional role as wife. …

Sedna

18 min read

Untangling Suffering: Sedna, Creatrix Under the Sea
Untangling Suffering: Sedna, Creatrix Under the Sea
Sedna

18 min read


Dec 21, 2020

Hiding From Joy

I lived in East Palo Alto, CA in 2010 while I finished my Master’s degree. Having lived in a very rural community for years, I was pretty excited about all the Bay Area options for alternative religious observance. One church I looked forward to visiting was the Palo Alto Ananda…

Joy

10 min read

Hiding From Joy
Hiding From Joy
Joy

10 min read


Apr 25, 2020

We’re In The Great Turning Now: Joanna Macy’s Coming Back To Life (and more)

Maybe you’ve never heard of The Great Turning. I think I first read the term from Joanna Macy, around ten years ago, in her book Coming Back to Life: Practices To Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (1998). The book was updated with the help of Molly Brown in 2014, and…

Joanna Macy

7 min read

We’re In The Great Turning Now: Joanna Macy’s Coming Back To Life (and more)
We’re In The Great Turning Now: Joanna Macy’s Coming Back To Life (and more)
Joanna Macy

7 min read


Nov 27, 2019

Review of Icelandic film Woman at War (2018) (Kona fer i strid)

I don’t ordinarily bother writing about films I don’t enjoy. So, this is also a recommendation. Written and directed by Benedikt Erlingsson, written also by Olafur Egilsson, the film is, first and foremost, smart; multilayered, thought-provoking, and artistic in the sense that it actually features art. Music, primarily. WaW’s overriding…

Feminism

7 min read

Review of Icelandic film Woman at War (2018) (Kona fer i strid)
Review of Icelandic film Woman at War (2018) (Kona fer i strid)
Feminism

7 min read

Colleen Szabo

Colleen Szabo

8 Followers

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Text to speech