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Jill Syme helps people change
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ill Syme has been on a spiri-
tual path for more than half
her life. She says she has read
almost every self-help book known to
humankind, but it wasn't until she
read Sacred Contracts by best-selling
author Caroline Myss that she could
answer the question, "What is your
sacred purpose in life?"
Syme's website is titled
"ReVisioneer — Change your
perception, change your life
She helps her clients use sacred
contracts and other tools to help
them "regain wholeness and enable
them to re-perceive the pain and
limitation of their wounded history."
According to Myss, people get
stuck in what she calls "woundol-
ogy," said Syme, wife of Rabbi Daniel
Syme of Temple Beth El in Bloomfield
Township. "They begin to relate to
their emotional wounds, and then
they get stuck in them."
Sacred contracts are the way to
teach people how to turn their wounds
into lessons, and get past them.
Part Tarot cards, part zodiac wheel,
part Kabbalah and Jungian philoso-
phy, the sacred contract is drawn up
by our souls before we are born, said
Syme, and it contains a wide range
of agreements regarding what we are
intended to learn in this life.
According to the theory, we are all
encoded with 12 archetypes. Four are
universal: child, victim, prostitute
and saboteur.
"We all have a prostitute she said.
"That's that part of us that will sell
off certain parts of us in order to be
loved. We all do it, especially when
we're children, because we want our
parents to love us:'
Eight other archetypes are person-
al, and all of them are represented by
tarot-like cards found when practic-
ing sacred contracts.
"Archetypes make up all of us,"
Syme said. "They act out of us in vari-
ous times depending on the triggers:'
When finally selected, the arche-
type cards are blindly placed on a
zodiac-type wheel with 12 "houses"
that include personality, creativity,
Dr. Jill Syme
occupation and health, and relation-
ships. When the 12 archetypes cards
are placed in the 12 houses, Syme
believes "they will tell a story of your
life and your life lessons, and each
of these houses represents an area of
power we have to learn to manage in
this life," she said.
"I help people discover who they are
as differentiated from who they were
taught they were supposed to be said
Syme, who has a doctorate in organi-
zational psychology. "People come to
me because they want to change:'
Syme also practices soul recovery
and aura soma.
Soul recovery claims to repair soul
loss, a Native American expression
for dissociation that happens during
severe emotional trauma. Aura soma
is a process that uses 110 different
colored bottles that are supposed
to reveal your personality and help
describe who you are at the soul level.
Dr. Debra L. Hollander has referred
people to Syme, she said, "to help
them move from a place of victim to
empowerment:'
"The sacred contract work involves
looking at lifelong patterns and iden-
tifying archetypes/roles that may
have impacted one's sense of self and
how they have lived their life said
Hollander, a psychiatrist at St. John
Providence Health System.
"In therapy, ideally, we focus on
how things 'add up' from our histo-
ries. We try to use the 'here and now'
to see how that past is affecting our
present in order to make changes in
what we have in our own control, to
create and make sense of our lives:'
Syme holds workshops at $75 per
session and private consultations for
$125 to $200 an hour at her office in
Franklin. For more information, visit
www.drjillsyme.com.
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