“There
are multiple paths to one’s self – for me, the one has been Avatar.”
Babette Salavize lived two years on a kibbutz in the of the desert in Israel and studied clinical psychology at the University of Paris in the atmosphere of the 1968 "revolution." She is strongly committed to the improvement of humankind.
Psychologist/psychotherapist
- one label is as good as another. I had locked myself in it, without knowing
how to get out, leaning on psychoanalysis. Lying three times a week for years, trying
to dive into the mysteries of the unconscious, looking for a reason for what I
was experiencing -at sea in all the possible interpretations and looking for
the "true one,
And
then, I took AvatarŪ.
I
discovered that I could think another way. I could stop feeling guilty about
not having gone far enough in the discovery of my unconscious. I could stop
thinking that psychoanalysis was the only path for self-discovery and change.
In
eight days I changed!
I
gained certainties and will never forget the fundamental realizations I had.
Three years later they are still here. I've understood I am responsible for
myself and for my life, that I have power to create. Instead of suffering I
began to act; instead of looking backwards, I looked ahead. I understood I
could have understood with psychoanalysis if I'd used it otherwise. I quit the
search in the unconscious to meet with consciousness.
There
are multiple paths to one's self - for me, the one has been Avatar.