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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Trust and Betrayal, Part 2: 4 Simple, Difficult Truths
June 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Hope, Meaning, Psychotherapy, Relationships, The Self, depth psychology, parent-child interactions, psychological crisis, therapy, trust
Following on from my last blog post on trust and betrayal, the following are four truths about the experience of betrayal of trust. They are surprisingly easy to state. However, really taking in what they mean for our lives is likely a much bigger psychological task.
1. An Experience of Betrayal Can Deeply Impact A Person’s Ability to [...]
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Work and the Heart
May 15th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Hope, Identity, Jungian analysis, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, Wellness, soul, wholeness, work
An article from the Globe and Mail of 12 May 2010 , “Working regular overtime linked to increased heart attack risk” raises some very serious questions about the way that we’re living now:
http://bit.ly/99TwPg
The article cites a study published in the European Heart Journal, which finds that employees who regularly put in 11- to 12-hour days have an [...]
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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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The Symbolic Power of Home, Part 1: Michaelle Jean
March 16th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Current Affairs, Home, Hope, Identity, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Mississauga, Oakville, The Self, archetypes, depth psychology, soul, suburbia / exurbia, symbolism
I think that many Canadians’ imagination and empathy has been caught by news stories of our Governor General, Michaelle Jean, who has been in the news here quite a bit this week.
Her Excellency is herself a native of Haiti who came to Canada at age 11 in 1968. In the last few days, she has returned to [...]
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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?
February 28th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Anxiety, Hope, Identity, Meaning, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychotherapy, The Self, depression, depth psychology, inner life, life passages, midlife, soul, stress, suburbia / exurbia, therapy
The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year:
I doubt that questions get much more real than those in this song. And the question that Peggy Lee sings about here is of the type, that, for many people, can become achingly urgent at [...]
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Does February Bring Any GIfts?
January 31st, 2010 · 2 Comments · Hope, Identity, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, The Self, depth psychology, inner life, soul, therapy
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?… Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They’ve proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration
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Remembering and Renewal
December 31st, 2009 · No Comments · Hope, Identity, Individuation, The Self, archetypal experience, depth psychology, life passages
New Year's Eve and the New Year, with all its joy, and its bittersweet recollection of another year gone by, will soon be here. Another year of memories, and another year of living behind us, with everything that entails.
For many, 2009 couldn't end too soon. A year of stress and economic uncertainty like practically no [...]
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The Holly and the Ivy
December 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Hope, Individuation, Meaning, Relationships, The Holidays, The Self, archetypal experience, inner life, mythology, soul, wholeness
Once again the Holidays have rushed to be upon us. It often seems that, once we hit the first day of December, the calendar somehow catapults us forward through the month of December and into Hanukkah, Christmas and then the New Year.
It's a busy time, full of a combination of demands upon us, social times, [...]
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