Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness the most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?… Your playing small does not serve the world…As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-- Williamson
Linda has designed the following methods of dream interpretation and healing from nightmares and PTSD:
A trauma-informed nightmare protocol based on Jungian active imagination and best practice trauma treatments for PTSD.
The GAIA Method (Guided Active Imagination Approach) was created for healing from the terrors of nightmares. This method is based on two pillars:
This method was created to help dreamers and practitioners avoid abreaction and re-traumatization from the dream exploration. It utilizes a personalized safety protocol by optimizing resourcing, imagery and anchoring to create safety prior to the exploration of the frightening dream images.
Linda’s Integrated Embodied Approach to dreamwork includes attention to multiple layers of consciousness and is a body/mind/spiritual approach to dreamwork. It attends to physical sensations and body awareness, dream story and narrative, the emotional storyline of the dream, the dream images themselves, associations and a-priori meanings, and to spiritual connections from many traditions and beliefs. Utilizing a variety of mind/body and energy psychology methods such as IFS (Internal Family Systems), Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programing) and modifications of EMDR tailored to dreamwork, this dream exploration reaches deep layers of meaning and guides the dreamer to the action steps needed in life to make the changes the dreams point to.
Explores the layers of a dream through a Kabbalistic lens
This innovative system, the PARDES Method, uses the four layers of inquiry from which one reads the Torah. It is based on the Kabbalist Pardes (Orchard) system to explore multiple simultaneously true layers of a dream. This mystical system examines four ever-deepening layers of meaning from the literal, to the hinted at, to the associative, to the transpersonal and mystical layers.
A dream un-interpreted is like a letter unopened.
-- The Talmud