Once the lead-up to the Holidays is over, there is often a quieter period in which people often come to new kinds of self awareness. This can often lead to new paths on a personal journey towards wholeness, if individuals are willing to walk them.
Entries Tagged as 'Jungian'
Jungian Counselling & Self Awareness on the Holidays
December 27th, 2011 · No Comments · counselling, Jungian, Jungian counselling, Self, self awareness, The Holidays
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Jungian Therapy, the Self & the Christmas Tree
December 20th, 2011 · 5 Comments · christmas tree, Jungian, Jungian therapy, The Self, therapy
The symbol of the Christmas tree is quite unusual. For one thing, it’s not at all clear how it fits into the traditional Christian narrative about Christmas. Who would think that the familiar Christmas tree is an ancient symbol of the Self?
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Jungian Counselling & Finding Your Life Purpose
December 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Jungian, Jungian counselling, life purpose, purpose
Finding your life purpose is key in individual therapy, and Jungian counselling stresses the need to make a personal search for meaningful direction in life. For many people, this is an essential journey to make, and Jungian counselling affirms that it’s a journey that we each can make.
Jungian Therapy, Individuation & Dealing with Feeling
November 24th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Feeling, Individuation, Jungian, Jungian therapy, therapy
In Jungian therapy, discovering feeling is often a key to individuation, the discovery of our individual identity. Feeling is one of the things that makes us human; discovering our own unique feeling is often an important path to ourselves.
Jungian Therapy, Stress Reduction & Perfectionism
November 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Jungian, Jungian therapy, perfectionism, stress, stress reduction
Our anxiety about these unacknowledged aspects of ourselves can drive us to strive ever more relentlessly to try to cover our weakness and imperfection. Unrealistic expectations for ourselves are rooted in a lack of willingness to accept our own fundamental nature, with its particular strengths and weaknesses.
Individual Psychotherapy & Hope: 4 Jungian Truths
November 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Hope, individual, individual psychotherapy, Jungian, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy
Hope is key to individual psychotherapy — especially for the Jungian therapist. It is always true that the hope of the client is going to be essential to the healing process of the psyche. But, especially in an age like ours, with the continual struggle that many face to keep hope alive, hope becomes even more crucial. 1) Hope from Within, [...]
Jungian Psychotherapy & Sexual Issues
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Jungian, Jungian psychotherapy, Psychotherapy
Sexual issues are often part of Jungian psychotherapy and of any form of depth psychotherapy that takes human life seriously. Sexuality is a matter of vital importance to us, and is directly connected to other essential areas of our life, like the aesthetic and the spiritual.
Individuality, Therapy for Anxiety, & Jungian Analysis
October 7th, 2011 · No Comments · Anxiety, Jungian, Jungian analysis, Psychology and Suburban Life, therapy for anxiety
Therapy for anxiety and Jungian analysis might seem to be two very different things. But if a person really wants to get to the roots of anxiety, there are some very real and powerful connections to be made between anxiety and depth psychology.
Psychotherapy for Depression: 5 Jungian Insights
September 30th, 2011 · 4 Comments · depression, Jungian, Psychotherapy, psychotherapy for depression
Depression, and psychotherapy for depression are very big topics, and the following insights from a Jungian perspective certainly don’t exhaust them, but do show us some ways to begin. . In every case, one has to ask the fundamental question, what is the meaning of my depression?” Jungian psychotherapy often provides the appropriate means to find a vibrant, vital and individual answer to that question.
Jungian Analysis, Analytical Psychology & Staying Real
September 8th, 2011 · 1 Comment · analytical psychology, Jungian, Jungian analysis
CG Jung invented the method of Jungian analysis and founded the school of psychology known as analytical psychology. there’s a vitality in Jung’s approach to psychotherapy. It profoundly affected people in his time, as it still does. The unique strength of Jung’s approach is best lived out when we can stay grounded in the real wisdom that he brought to psychotherapy work, while keeping open to the best of other influences.