The Resource Lab
Articles and reflections on self-understanding, relationships, and nervous system balance
Explorations of grounded spirituality, symbolic frameworks, and archetypal psychology
Practical tools for navigating transitions, trauma recovery, and meaningful change
New pieces added regularly — depth over frequency
Betrayal Trauma: Understanding the Wound, the Journey, and the Possibility of Repair
Betrayal cuts deepest when it comes from the people we trust most. This guide explores what betrayal trauma does to the mind and body, why simply enduring it doesn’t heal it, and how the hero’s journey and Jung’s archetypes can light the way through, whether you were hurt or caused the hurt.
Jungian Archetypes: Tarot as One Tool for the Deeper Work
I got my first tarot deck before I was ten years old, in Montana. The Death card came up in a reading on my grandmother, and I cried and put the deck away for years. It took decades — and a long detour through Carl Jung — to understand archetypes as something far bigger than the cards themselves.