Konrad van Staden: Jungian Analyst & Clinical Psychologist

19/08/2026

When do you find you emotional eat the most? Let me know in the comments:

19/08/2026

The Buffer is weight held as protection: a layer of body standing between a person and a kind of contract that once felt dangerous.

The part that tends to surprise people is the timing, because a buffer usually has a year attached to it, and in that year something happened.

What is your body still protecting you from?

18/08/2026

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18/08/2026

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18/08/2026

The Buffer: The Armour You Did Not Know You Were Wearing
The first contract, weight as protection

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The first contract, weight as protection

16/08/2026

Week two went looking for the part of you that undoes the plan. The saboteur turned out to be doing protective work, which is why arguing with it never holds for long.

From there the essays moved to the contracts, the quiet agreements the body keeps on your behalf, most of them signed long before you had any say in them.

Week three opens the first two. The Buffer, where weight is doing the work of protection. Then the Rebellion, where it is doing the work of refusal. Essays publish every Tuesday and Friday.

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16/08/2026

It is when we turn our eyes inward that the wisdom grows, when we become empowered, and when we begin to break the shackles of this prison that held us for too long.

By holding the curiosity and developing our sensitivity to the feelings, memories and traumas we carried, we walk into getting to know our path out of this, and develop relationships to self, other, and food that heals.

16/08/2026

Your Body Is Keeping a Promise You Never Made:

An introduction to the four Unconscious Contracts

16/08/2026