Prompt Yourself To More Productive Writing
Do you play with your food? Try playing with your writing.
If you think Mama and Dada were your first attempts at language, it’s because you can’t remember your first few days of life.
If you could recall recognizing the faces of your caregivers checking on your comfort, the joy when saw a sibling replace a teething ring in your mouth, or you spied a bottle in the hand of your mother that represented feeding time, you would understand, as the child phychiatrist Margaret Lowenthal did after World War 1, that these symbols formed the basis of our early language.
Following Dr. Lowenthal’s seminal work on developing the sandplay technique, it has become a standard treatment in Jungian therapy. It’s a way of getting blocked patients to recall early traumas, among other uses.
I was fortunate to learn sandplay from a third-generation practitioner (she learned from Frieda Kalff, who learned from Dr. Lowenthal herself) specifically to use it in my coaching and teaching practice. I’m not a therapist.
