418: Active Imagination: Jung’s Path to Emotional Integration & Lasting Weight Change with David Sheil

Radical Acceptance: Healing Anxiety, Depression & Weight Through Self‑Compassion
🌿 **Article Summary**
Radical acceptance teaches people to stop fighting reality and start working with it. Rooted in Carl Jung’s depth psychology and refined in DBT, it helps clients step out of anxiety’s future focus and depression’s past fixation. By taking a “snapshot” of the present, they can begin real change instead of chasing perfection.  

Active imagination exercises deepen this process by engaging the unconscious mind. Through visualization, dialogue with inner images, and self‑compassion, clients integrate split‑off parts of themselves and reduce cortisol‑driven stress. Combined with naturopathic support and counselling, these techniques help regulate hormones, improve digestion, and create sustainable weight loss grounded in emotional healing.

Clinic Details
**New Leaf Natural Therapies**  
Manly West, Brisbane  
Naturopathic • Functional Medicine • Kinesiology • LEAP • NOT • Brain Integration  
31 + years clinical experience  

**Phone:** 0417 643 849  
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✨ **David Sheil – Holistic Counsellor** (trauma, emotional regulation, nervous‑system healing)

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