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The Ancient Mother Spiral: 

The Path to Dismantling the Illusion of Separation

Presence centered psychotherapy _ Ancient Mother Spiral - The Ancient Mother in USArtist Name
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The "Ancient Mother Spiral Framework" is a six-stage, non‑linear framework for healing and growth. It maps a return from felt separation to belonging, revisiting stages as capacity expands: Calling, Descent, Listening, Embodiment, Reweaving, Integration. It helps orient sessions, reflect change, and design practices that meet the moment, allowing you to expand your capacity to be present in your life and it's challenges.  As a rigorous, alchemical framework it's main core value is to systemically dismantle the illusion of separation, guiding you back to your true nature of interconnectedness. It applies to all and systems.

Rooted in the wisdom of the Great Mother archetype, that Jung talked about it acknowledges the deep wound of perceived separation- from self, others, the Earth, and divine intelligence.

It therefore, aspires to offer a transformative path not of linear "fixing," but of spiralic returning. We journey through six distinct yet interwoven phases, weaving together psychotherapy, non-duality, trauma healing, and a deep honor for neurodivergence.

This path is for mothers, women, parents, therapists, and all who hear the soul's call to come home.

The Philosophy – Why a Spiral?




Why a Spiral? The Dance of the Bee 


The spiral is a radical antidote to rigid, patriarchal systems of linearity. It de-pathologises disruption, seeing any setback as a sacred opportunity for insight and growth. Moving through the spiral is akin to our birth process, suggesting an inherent familiarity in the way we enter the world, and navigate our life's path.

Each stage can be re-entered, deepened, and revisited multiple times throughout your life, or even within a single day. Like the bee's dance that guides its colony, each return brings new insights from a higher vantage point. True integration is an ongoing process, not a static destination. We are always circling back with new honey to add to the collective comb.

The Journey: The Six Spiralic Stages: A Journey of Honey & Ash.

Stage 1: Awakening Great Mother: The Call of the Honeyed Heart

  • The Essence: To ignite the primal, intuitive knowing of interconnectedness—what the ancients Greeks called Melicardia, the "honeyed heart." It’s sensing the sweetness of belonging that calls you home.

  • The Work: We directly address the root feeling of isolation and loneliness. We explore mother/father wounds, create grief rituals for lost connection, and begin attuning to the Earth.

  • This stage is for you if... You feel a pervasive sense of "something missing," a yearning for reconnection, and a deep "cry of separation" from life.

Stage 2: Gestation and Growth: Building the Honeycomb

  • The Essence: To create the internal and external space for new beginnings. This is a period of intentional preparation, like worker bees patiently building the comb and gathering nectar.

  • The Work: We focus on nervous system regulation, setting clear intentions, and building a supportive community. It is about resourcing you to hold new potential without overwhelm.

  • This stage is for you if... You feel a strong desire for change but are met with uncertainty, powerlessness, or a fear of stepping into the unknown.

Stage 3: Descent into Dark Goddess: Composting to Ash

  • The Essence: The most profound alchemical phase. We bravely face, integrate, and return to light all that has been exiled—turning trauma into wisdom, like a fire that leaves fertile ash.

  • The Work: This is deep shadow work. We process grief, alchemize rage into a sacred fire, and explore ancestral burdens to dismantle lifelong limiting patterns.

  • This stage is for you if... you feel blocked, notice recurring self-sabotage, or feel an intuitive pull to finally confront the deep roots of your pain.

Stage 4: Crowning Birth Expansion: The Swarm's New Flight

  • The Essence: The climactic moment of emergence, likened to "crowning" in childbirth, where the ego’s resistance dissipates and your authentic self is born into the world.

  • The Work: We focus on visioning, creative expression, and reclaiming your authentic voice and power. It's about moving from inner work to outer manifestation.

  • This stage is for you if... you feel a profound sense of release and integration, coupled with a powerful urge to manifest your renewed self and "take up more space."

Stage 5: Surrender: The Bee's Devotion to the Hive

  • The Essence: A deep dive into trusting life's rhythms and releasing the need for control. This is the shift from an ego-centric to a soul-led existence, like the bee’s instinctual devotion to the hive.

  • The Work: Through practices of meditation, ceremony, and service, we practice letting go of fixed agendas and find profound relief in being held by a larger, benevolent process.

  • This stage is for you if... you find striving to be exhausting, yearn for deeper peace, and sense that further growth requires letting go rather than pushing forward.

Stage 6: Holy Union: The Sweetness of the Thriving Hive;Our soul's Nectar of Being

  • The Essence: The embodied integration of all parts of yourself, leading to an absolute sense of safety, belonging, and oneness with life. This is "heaven on earth" in the ordinary details.

  • The Work: We practice embodying paradox (Hieros Gamos), sharing wisdom through mentorship, and cultivating the new gifts that emerge for collective service and joy.

  • This stage is for you if... you feel a natural inclination to contribute your wisdom and actively participate in co-creating a world rooted in oneness and integrated peace.

Find Your Place in the Spiral


This is a path, not a mapped out destination. Your journey is unique, and you may find yourself resonant with one stage or feel the pull of several at once.  This is the nature of the spiral. The most crucial step is the first one: the willingness to listen to the call and ability to cultivate a strong witness and an attitude of curiousity so you begin your inquiry from a Heart-Led Place. Sometimes our trauma and conditioning might get in the way to this, and arriving to me will be to tenderly look at what is emerging, and connect you back to your intrinsic actualising force.

Explore How to Begin Your Journey , by dropping me an email. 

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 " You do not have to be good .You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. "

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Mail: maria.kefalogianni@gmail.com

Tel: 0752 321 7600

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