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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. ❑