Writings from the Spiral…

Essays, reflections, and transmissions on shadow work, spiritual practice, and the slow art of becoming whole. Writing about the things we're not supposed to say out loud — the grief with no name, the gifts that got buried, the healing that doesn't look like healing. Some of these will comfort you. Some will unsettle you. Both are the point.

Where shadow meets soul and healing doesn't move in a straight line.

Shadow and Soul, Liminal Wisdom Ivy Ingersoll Shadow and Soul, Liminal Wisdom Ivy Ingersoll

I Sing of Artemis

The Kourotrophos is not absent from those children. She is present in every person who refuses to look away — in the doctor who performs surgery by flashlight in a basement, in every voice that speaks the names of the dead when the powerful have decided the dead don't have names worth speaking. She does not prevent. She accompanies. She is unmoved — not because she doesn't feel it. Because feeling it fully is precisely what she was built to do without breaking.

Read More