It’s actually painful to be an overly driven person, as both Jungian therapy and therapy for anxiety in general recognize. When any of us allows ourselves to get caught in this way, we run a great risk of chronically devaluing our inner life, and our true worth
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Jungian Therapy for Anxiety & the Overly Driven Person
January 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Anxiety, driven person, Jungian, Jungian therapy, therapy, therapy for anxiety
Jungian Therapy, Time and the New Year: 4 Reflections
January 5th, 2012 · No Comments · Jungian, Jungian therapy, New Year, therapy, Time
If life is limited and finite, I need to live in the ways that are most meaningful to me. To do that, I must know what it is that I really value. And to know what it is that I really value, I will have to encounter those parts of myself that I do not usually encounter or acknowledge — the undiscovered unconscious self.
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 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 for Anxiety & Times of Crisis: 5 Truths
August 14th, 2011 · No Comments · crisis, Jungian, Jungian therapy, therapy, therapy for anxiety, times of crisis
In times of crisis like these, with financial panic and other factors, some important truths emerge from the practice of Jungian therapy, depth psychotherapy, and therapy for anxiety. Here are some key learnings important for resilience in times like these — and for getting through them.
Therapy, Personal Growth & Self Knowledge …Really?
August 8th, 2011 · No Comments · growth, personal growth, Self, self-knowledge, therapy
Many speak about therapy and/or psychotherapy as a route to personal growth and self knowledge, but that depends a lot on the kind of therapy, the attitude of the person undertaking it, and the knowledge and attitude of the therapist.
Individual Therapy, Overwork & Workaholism
July 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · individual, individual therapy, overwork, therapy, workaholism
Work is ultimately only meaningful and satisfying if life overall is meaningful. Both the self-imposed, compulsively avoidant working of the workaholic, and the oppressively imposed burdens of the bullied and overworked can deprive life of much or all of its real meaning.
Psychotherapy and Renewal: Persephone’s Big Comeback
April 5th, 2011 · No Comments · analytical psychology, archetypal experience, Carl Jung, depth psychology, inner life, Introversion, journey, Jungian, Jungian analysis, life passages, mythology, personal myth, personal story, psychological crisis, Psychology and Suburban Life, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, renewal, Self, soul, therapist, therapy, unconscious
The Persephone myth conveys a natural movement in psychological life For Persephone, it is only as she is detached from her familiar world, and descends to the Underworld that she can bring the blessing and the gift of the seasons, of new green life, and fecundity. Sometimes the encounter with life’s circumstances and with the unconscious can seem like a sudden plunge into darkness and descent into the underworld. But the underworld has its own gifts that it brings. Only those who can accept those gifts, and eat the food of the underworld, can bring the gift of life and fertility back to the “surface world” of their everyday lives.
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Psychotherapy and Will Power: Four Simple Truths
March 24th, 2011 · 5 Comments · C. G. Jung, Carl Jung, compulsion, depth psychology, ego, inner life, Jungian, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, psychological crisis, Psychology and Suburban Life, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, Self, The Self, the will, therapist, therapy, unconscious, will power
Will power is necessary to enable the individual to confront issues. But that is not the same as just assuming that will power will cut right through the situation. Fortunately, the very good news is that there are self-healing forces at work in the psyche that are beyond our conscious control.
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Jungian Psychotherapy and Listening
February 23rd, 2011 · 7 Comments · depth psychology, dialogue, inner life, listening, mirroring, personal story, Psychology and Suburban Life, psychotherapist, Psychotherapy, therapy
Listening is fundamental to all good therapy. Really, it’s the key thing in meaningful human interaction of all kinds. Listening represents the power of someone else taking our story seriously.
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