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Last week, I entered the sacred water.

At Beji Griya Waterfall outside Ubud, I took part in Melukat, a traditional Balinese purification ceremony. The ceremony led me through shrines, caves, springs, prayer and waterfalls, into a landscape that felt both ancient and completely alive.

And then, under the water, something unexpected happened.

I met the gods of Bali alongside the strange collection of images I had carried since childhood: King Kong, a water slide, Catholic incense, holy water. Somehow, they all belonged in the same story.

I wrote about the experience — the ritual, the descent, the water, the memories it awakened, and what happened when my own mythology met an ancient one.

Read “Melukat: Into the Sacred Water” in the Resource Lab on my website, Mindful Sparrow

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A space for therapists to slow down, reflect, and think together.

This group began a few months ago and has continued to evolve. What started as a simple idea has become a thoughtful space for practitioners to bring a case, a question, or something they're sitting with clinically.

Therapy can be deeply meaningful work, but it can also be isolating. We aren't meant to hold every question alone.

If you're a psychotherapist, counsellor, psychologist, social worker, or other mental health practitioner looking for a reflective peer consultation group, I'd love to welcome you.

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Negative Core Beliefs: A CBT Approach & Thought Record — Mindful Sparrow Therapy & Holistic Coaching Why old beliefs like "I'm not enough" resurface out of nowhere — and how a CBT thought record helps bring the intensity down to something workable.

New in the Resource Lab — Jungian archetypes, tarot, and how to find your own. I got my first tarot deck before I was ten years old, in Montana — and I cried over the Death card and put the deck away for years. It took decades, and a long detour through Carl Jung, to understand what actually happened that day. New post explores Jungian archetypes, the Fool's Journey, shadow work, and how IFS connects. Tarot is one tool here — not the whole story.
Read it here: https://www.mindfulsparrow.com/resource-lab/jungian-archetypes-tarot-as-one-tool-for-the-deeper-work

From the Resource Lab 🌿

I was sixteen, watching Joseph Campbell on PBS, and something in me just knew. I couldn't explain it. I just recognised the map he was drawing — the descent, the trials, the return — as something true. Something alive.

Decades later, it's the foundation of everything I do as a therapist.

Most people who come to me think they're broken. They're not. They're in the middle of the journey. There's a difference — and it changes everything.

This article is for anyone in the thick of it right now.
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The Hero's Journey: A Map for Your Transformation | Mindful Sparrow — Mindful Sparrow Therapy & Holistic Coaching The Hero's Journey isn't just an ancient myth — it's a living map of human transformation. Jung and Campbell both saw it. Here's how to recognise which stage you're in.

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