Blue Beard: Rebelling

Blue Beard is a French folktale, the most famous surviving version of which was written by Charles Perrault. There are many interpretations of this story, but we are going to work with Dr. Estes’s Jungian approach, and look for  "the key of knowing”

What are the rules you’ve been unconsciously trying to follow?

What do you forbid yourself to be or do?

Do you want to unblock your creative power?

As truth seekers, we are going to work together to unmask our self-sabotaging Inner Judge, the Blue Beard in our psyche, that part of us that developed in our childhood in order to protect us from being shamed or hurt. Their goal for us is to succeed in the world and to be accepted and liked by others, to follow “the rules “.

Even if any objective observer would think we had done a great job, our Inner Judge, knowing what was going on inside of us, is able to find the flaws either in our performance or our inner attitude. And it will communicate this as absolute pronouncements: you are a slob, you are no good, you look like shit. Absolute bullying.