# Martha S Bache-Wiig

> Life as a Gift and a Work of Art


## Posts

- [Who are you wanting to become? Insights on Healing, Growth and Life as a Work of Art](https://marthabw.com/who-are-you-wanting-to-become/): [et_pb_section fb_built="1" theme_builder_area="post_content" _builder_version="4.27.7" _module_preset="default"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.27.7" _module_preset="default" theme_builder_area="post_content"][et_pb_column _builder_version="4.27.7" _module_preset="default" type="4_4" theme_builder_area="post_content"][et_pb_image src="https://marthabw.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/contemplative_walk_by_the_sea.webp" _builder_version="4.27.7" _module_preset="default" theme_builder_area="post_content" hover_enabled="0" sticky_enabled="0" alt="Who are you today, and who are you wanting to become?"
- [Why The Odyssey Matters Now](https://marthabw.com/why-the-odyssey-matters-now/): There are moments in history when seemingly unrelated events converge in ways that invite us to pause and reflect.
- [Collective Unconscious or Morphic Fields? Two Ways of Understanding Human Connectedness](https://marthabw.com/collective-unconscious-or-morphic-fields/): This article grew out of some reflections I shared in my essay When Ideas Appear at the Same Time in Different Places.
- [Why We Repeat the Same Patterns Even When We Know Better](https://marthabw.com/why-we-repeat-the-same-patterns/): "I knew this would happen."
- [The Double Spiral in Psychological and Spiritual Healing and Resilience](https://marthabw.com/double-spiral-healing-and-resilience/): I have been thinking a lot about the symbol I chose for my new logo - the Double Spiral.
- [Existential Creativity and Mindfulness](https://marthabw.com/existential-creativity-and-mindfulness/): We are becoming ever more aware of how our inner lives and our mental health, often negatively programmed by our childhood experiences, affect our outer lives - and viceversa - and how we can improve them both by developing our existential creativity through holistic therapeutic approaches and mindfulness practices.
- [New Year, New Lens! Here's to 2026 🌟](https://marthabw.com/new-year-new-lens-heres-to-2026-%f0%9f%8c%9f/): As we step into 2026, I wanted to share with you a new way of looking at life and the many challenges we can often be faced with, both individually and on a collective level, and that can be of great help in these tumultuous, difficult and yet exciting times of rapid change.
- [Loving Others As Ourselves? What?!](https://marthabw.com/loving-others/): "Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack."
- [When Ideas Appear at the Same Time in Different Places](https://marthabw.com/exploring-the-depths-of-the-mind-a-comparison-of-jungs-collective-unconscious-and-sheldrakes-morphic-fields/): Over the past week I have had a truly interesting experience that has caused me to wonder a lot about what the collective unconscious is, how it relates to morphic fields, and how both of them become observable in daily life.
- [Celebrating Human Progress at the time of the Solstice](https://marthabw.com/happy-juneteenth-happy-solstice/): Happy Juneteenth!!
- [Don't let the Big Bad Baboons get you down - healing from emotional and psychological stress](https://marthabw.com/dont-let-the-big-bad-baboons-get-you-down/): How can we heal from - and stop creating more of - the emotional and psychological stress that so many of us are suffering from?
- [Opportunities in the Time of the Coronavirus](https://marthabw.com/opportunities-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus/): Breathing, resting, and visioning new ways of Being in our lives.
- [Your Authentic Self](https://marthabw.com/your-authentic-self/): Hello everyone!
- [Amo Ergo Sum](https://marthabw.com/amo-ergo-sum/): Here we are, in the holiday season, and at the end of yet another year with the beginning of a new one just around the corner!
- [Pain as a Cosmic Force ..... to Create New Love, Beauty, Truth and Freedom!](https://marthabw.com/pain-as-a-cosmic-force/): This has been an incredible summer for me, to put it mildly. Full of loss and cleansing and shifting ....
- [Expectations: how they shape us, and how we can transform them](https://marthabw.com/expectations/): Good morning, friends.
- [Only Love can Placate our Deepest Needs](https://marthabw.com/love-can-placate-needs-soul/): I find myself pondering, often, over the plight of us human beings who are so desperately searching for that "something" that will fill us up and make us feel, finally, whole and "at home".

## Pages

- [Whole-Person LifeArt Consulting for Professionals](https://marthabw.com/whole-person-lifeart-professionals/): A confidential space for reflection, insight, and meaningful growth.
- [Schedule a Session with Martha](https://marthabw.com/schedule-a-session/)
- [The Thought and Work of Antonio Mercurio](https://marthabw.com/the-thought-and-work-of-antonio-mercurio/): Antonio Mercurio was an Italian philosopher, psychotherapist, educator, and founder of Existential Personalistic Anthropology, Sophia-Analysis, Sophia-Art, and Cosmo-Art.
- [Family Constellations](https://marthabw.com/family-constellations/): Many of the challenges we face in life do not arise from our individual experiences alone.
- [Online Family Constellations](https://marthabw.com/online-family-constellations/): You don't need to be in the same room for profound systemic healing to occur.
- [Essays on Living](https://marthabw.com/essays-on-living/): Life is full of questions that rarely have simple answers.
- [Customer Cabinet](https://marthabw.com/customer-cabinet/)
- [Home](https://marthabw.com/): Whole-person counseling offers compassionate support when life feels heavy, relationships repeat painful patterns, or you’re standing at a crossroads.
- [Meditations and Guided Visualizations](https://marthabw.com/meditations-and-guided-visualizations/): I created The Body Guide © in 2012 as a simple yet powerful guided practice to help you reconnect with your body, mind, emotions, and deeper inner awareness.
- [The Quest for Freedom and the True Self](https://marthabw.com/the-quest-for-freedom-and-the-true-self/): Freedom is a big word. Everyone seems to want it. And when we use the word freedom, we often assume we are all talking about the same thing. But are we?
- [Life as a Work of Art Laboratories](https://marthabw.com/groups-workshops/life-as-a-work-of-art-laboratory/): Change your Lens, Change your Life!
- [FAQs about Family Constellations](https://marthabw.com/faqsconstellations/): 1) What happens in a Family Constellations Workshop?
- [In-Person Family Constellations](https://marthabw.com/in-person-family-constellations/): Many of the challenges we face in relationships, work, self-worth, emotional well-being, and our sense of purpose may be connected to unconscious family dynamics carried across generations.
- [Family Constellations and the Knowing Field](https://marthabw.com/knowingfield/): By rendering the invisible visible, we can heal what is wounded and evolve into greater health, wisdom and wellbeing.
- [Experiential Travel and Creative Retreats in Calabria, Italy](https://marthabw.com/experiential-travel-creative-retreats-italy-calabria/): Squillace Beach, looking towards the Mons Moscius in the Gulf of Squillace on the Ionian Coast in Calabria, just south of the city of Catanzaro.
- [The Healing Power of Forest Bathing](https://marthabw.com/forest-bathing/): Discover the Healing Power of Forest Bathing Experiences facilitated by Martha S.
- [Privacy Policy](https://marthabw.com/privacy-policy/): This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for www.marthabw.com, the website for Martha S Bache-Wiig LLC (previously known as MBW LifeArt Consulting, MBW Counseling and Coaching and The International Center for the Development of the Person, LLC.)
- [Online and In Person Workshops and Retreats](https://marthabw.com/groups-workshops/): Modern psychology and neuroscience now clearly confirm what many of us have always sensed: our health and wellbeing are profoundly shaped by the quality of our relationships.
- [Relationship Consulting with the LifeArt Approach](https://marthabw.com/relationships/): The LifeArt approach to Relationships offers a supportive space for partners of all kinds to strengthen communication, rebuild connection, and understand one another more deeply.
- [Whole-Person Individual LifeArt Consulting](https://marthabw.com/individual-sessions/): Sessions with Martha help you delve into the root causes of your struggles, find relief, and create a more joyful and fulfilling life.
- [Becoming Persons and Artists of Our Lives](https://marthabw.com/becoming-persons-and-artists-of-our-lives/): An article by Dr.
- [About Martha](https://marthabw.com/about-martha/): International Existential Counselor and Coach
- [Existential Personalistic Anthropology: A New Lens for a New Era](https://marthabw.com/existential-personalistic-anthropology/): Existential Personalistic and Existential Cosmoartistic Anthropology are a comprehensive philosophy of human development and a practical approach to counseling developed over more than fifty years by Professor Antonio Mercurio and his collaborators through the Institutes and Centers affiliated with Sophia University of Rome, Italy.
- [LifeArt Consulting](https://marthabw.com/whole-person-lifeart-consulting/): Whole-Person LifeArt Consulting offers an integrative approach to help you better understand yourself, your relationships, and the patterns shaping your life so you can move forward with greater clarity, freedom, and purpose.
- [Contact](https://marthabw.com/contact-martha/): Please email me: martha@marthabw.com to receive more info.

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