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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Trust and Betrayal
May 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, The Self, depth psychology, life passages, psychological crisis, trust, wholeness
In my recent blog post on “Crisis“, I indicated that one of the gravest things that can happen to people is the experience of betrayal in those close relationships with others whom they trust deeply, and upon whom they depend. I feel strongly that this is an area worth exploring further, and some of my readers have [...]
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Welcome to the New Home of “Vibrant Jung Thing!”
May 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, life passages
Dear Readers,
With some great help, I’ve finally been able to move my blog onto my main website, which is something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time. I hope that you will continue to read and enjoy my posts. Having the blog on my main site makes it easier 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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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, "Up In the Air"
January 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Anxiety, Current Affairs, Film, Identity, Individuation, Meaning, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, persona, puer aeternis, unlived life, wholeness, work
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham
"Up in the Air", directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney's character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel ("322 days last year"). He moves from place to place, letting people go from [...]
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Job, Identity, Anxiety
January 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Anxiety, Identity, Individuation, Psychology, Psychotherapy, The Self, complexes, life passages, wholeness
I don't know what might motivate an employer to choose to lay people off 3 weeks before Christmas. However, judging from the calls I received from clients and potential clients prior to the New Year, there were quite a few employers who took such action this year.
Having been on the receiving end of such news myself in prior times, my thoughts [...]
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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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When You Hit a Brick Wall
July 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, The Self, depression, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, psychological crisis, soul, stress, unconscious, wholeness
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives.
There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in life, it seems particularly prevalent at mid-life.
Often, the way one becomes aware of [...]
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Purpose in Your Life
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Meaning, depth psychology, inner life, life passages, midlife, soul, wholeness
The Toronto Globe and Mail in an article this morning cited research by Dr. Patricia A. Boyle and her colleagues at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, and published in Psychosomatic Medicine, tending to empirically confirm something that psychotherapists and counsellors have known from their practices for a very long time: Greater purpose in [...]
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