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About me

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Born in 1952, I am an Austrian psychotherapist, author and traveller living in Innsbruck, Tyrol.
After being an AFS foreign exchange student in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, in 1972, I was first an English and Geography techer in Secondary School.
After being only a "mere" mother and housewife for many years, and doing volunteer work in the integration and rehabilitation of mentally ill people, I was later providing psychological support to the small schools in the mountain valleys as an outpatient counselling teacher.

From 1999 onwardsI have been working as a psychotherapist in my own practice. In addition to training in psychodrama and cognitive therapy, I am deeply rooted in Jungian psychoanalysis. I combine all my knowledge in an integrated way, have specialised in dream analysis and offer live and online workshops.
I have also been practising oriental dance for more than 30 years and have a training in "Dervish whirling dance, oriental healing methods and Sufi meditation" with the ethnologist, Arabist and Sufi techer Dr Rosina Al Rawi, Vienna - Jerusalem - Baghdad.

Loving the world and its different cultures and peoples, I have travelled ex´tensively, and my daughters and 5 grandchildren live in Mexico and in London-Paris-Marrakesh.

I am a member of www.turmbund.org (literature & art centre in Innsbruck) and www.die-oetztalerin (local networking platform for women empowerment), supporting member of www.integrallife.com and www.eurotas.world.
My deepest heartfelt concern is the connection and mediation between the different worlds, cultures and religiones, both externally and internally. between the conscious and the unconscious, between body, mind, soul and spirit and understanding myself as a spiritual, co-creative evolutionary human being.

My latest published book: "Enchanting - LIFE'S Dream Calling: The Thrilling Adventures of the 2nd Half of Life", Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany, 2024 (see publications).

Teachers who have had a particularly lasting influence on me over decades, either through their lives or through their books, lectures or as therapists, and who have inspired and encouraged my development on all levels (body, mind, soul, spirit and work with the unconscious) are, in addition to my family of origin and my ancestors, my husband, my children and grandchildren, my friends the psychoanalyst Eugen Drewerman (Germany), the depth psychologist Father Guido Kreppold (Germany), the psychologist and Zen master St. Ludwigis Fabian (Germany/Philiüüines), all my belly dance teachers, the psychoanalyst and Anglican priest Dr. Paul Kennedy (Great Britain/Austria), the psychoanalyst Dr. med. Veronika Gradl (Germany/Austria), the psychotherapist Dr. Verena Günter (Austria), the ethnologist, Arabist and Sufi teacherDr. Rosina-Fawzia Al Rawi (Baghdad/Jerusalem/Vienna), the psychologist  and Sufi teacherDr. Neil Douglas-Klotz (USA/UK), the psychoanalyst and writer Dr. Clarissa Pinklola Estés (USA/Mexico/Europe), the US-American author, philosopher and consciousness researcher Ken Wilber, Father David Steindl-Rast (Austria/USA) and many others.
And not to forget all my travels and quests to the inside and outside world!

To all of them my special thanks!


ECHANTING - Life's Dream Calling

The thrilling Adventures of the 2nd Half of Life         

How can the 2nd half of life become a deeply fulfilling and enchanting adventure with zest and esprit? How can your life dream and LIFE’S dream of you come true in our highly complex times, and how can an enriching life together with other, very different people be possible at the same time, despite all the challenges that life and aging present?

In this book I show in a colourful sequence of topics and authors and in an
easy-to-understand way, how the findings of psycho-therapy offer inspiring, enriching, unconventional and encouraging answers to the questions posed above. For a fulfilling life across the life-span it is imperative to better understand and consider the interplay of body, mind, soul, and spirit including the unconscious. Therefore, I place particular emphasis on the significance of its integration and on the nocturnal dream as an evolutionary map. With it, also the immense creative capacity and willpower inherent in every human being are of great importance.

Integrating and embracing
all these areas is crucial for an empowering and deeply satisfying 2nd half of life,
especially on the bumpy road that life sometimes throws at us. In addition to my own explanations, I also let well-known authors from the fields of psychotherapy, consciousness re-search, medicine, sociology, philosophy, quantum physics, biology, and anthropology such as C. G. Jung, C. P. Estés, Ken Wilber, James Hillman, L. Rosenmayr, Danielle Quinodoz, Helen Luke, Roberto Assagioli, Ingrid Riedel, Marie-Louise v. Franz, Arnold Mindel, Rupert Sheldrake, Alan Wolf, and others have their say.

www.mehai.eu

 

Printed Edition: ISBN 978-3-75831-262-5
Paperback, 280 pages, € 24,90

e-Book: ISBN-Nr. 9783-7583-94102-, € 9,49
Available in all book stores and at Amazon Kindle Shop, Google Play, Apple iBooks, Kobo, ....

Production and Publishing: BoD – Books on Demand, Norderstedt, Germany 2024

         

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