In my last posting, I tried to open up the whole subject of regret, and the powerful and sometimes crippling place that it can occupy in our lives, and how we can be held in slavery to regret of all the choices we could have made differently, or courses of events that could have turned out differently. In this posting, I’d [...]
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Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 2: The Power of Regret
July 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Hope, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, The Self, complexes, compulsion, decision, depression, depth psychology, guilt, inner life, life passages, midlife, regret, soul, therapy, unconscious, wholeness
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Escaping the Grip of Regret, Part 1
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, complexes, compulsion, depth psychology, guilt, life passages, midlife, regret, soul, therapy, unlived life, wholeness
Regret can be a potent emotion, and a great many of us have experienced its power. In my next few postings, I will be examining the phenomenon of regret, and the way it impacts us. It can have a huge grip on us. It can even imprison us, and embitter us beyond words. But, let me ask a question that might seem strange: Is there health in regret?
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Stuck
April 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Hope, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Psychology and Suburban Life, complexes, compulsion, depth psychology, inner life, soul, wholeness
One of the common experiences that brings people into therapy is the feeling of being “stuck”. This is an expression that people commonly use to describe the experience of being brought up again and again against some psychological issue that seems incredibly difficult or even impossible to resolve.
Sometimes this sense of “stuckness” can concern some aspect or [...]
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Between Childrens' and Parents' Needs: the Generational Anxiety Sandwich
February 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Current Affairs, Jungian analysis, Psychotherapy, The Self, complexes, compulsion, depth psychology, parent-child interactions, parental complex, therapy, unlived life, wholeness
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of "taboo" about it.
For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal reserves of compassion, empathy, time, energy and money. These resources are [...]
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Keeping Your Soul in Times of Economic Anxiety
October 2nd, 2008 · 1 Comment · Current Affairs, Halton Region, Jungian psychology, Meaning, Oakville, The Self, collective consciousness, compulsion, depth psychology, panic, soul, suburbia / exurbia
These are anxious days in suburbia, and in fact throughout North America and the rest of the developed world.
As I write, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has mushroomed into a full-blown crisis for the U.S. banking system, and even more broadly, for the entire global financial community. Many of my American [...]
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When Shadow Puts the Pedal to the Metal
July 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Current Affairs, Halton Region, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Lifestyle, Milton, Mississauga, Oakville, Ontario, Peel Region, Psychotherapy, Wellness, anger, compulsion, depth psychology, road rage, suburbia / exurbia
There is no manifestation in our modern lives of what Jungians call "the shadow" that is more dramatic or potentially more deadly than road rage. In its Wednesday July 9/08 edition, the Toronto Globe and Mail reported on a particularly tragic and deadly incident which occurred in the town of Milton, here in Halton Region. [...]
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Wireless Email, the "CrackBerry" and The Psyche
July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments · BlackBerry, Current Affairs, Halton Region, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Lifestyle, Mississauga, Oakville, Peel Region, Psychotherapy, Technology, Wellness, compulsion, depth psychology, popular culture, soul, suburbia / exurbia
Ever greater numbers of people are carrying pocket-sized wireless email devices, or pocket digital assistants (PDAs) like the RIM Blackberry or the Palm Treo. As a phenomenon, it seemed to start with people in the financial sector and in IT, but it has spread rapidly throughout our society. Today an ever-growing number of people [...]
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