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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Anxiety, Stress and Decisions
May 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Anxiety, Individuation, Mississauga, Oakville, Psychology and Suburban Life, Psychotherapy, decision, midlife, soul, unconscious, wholeness
A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life. Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the horns of a major dilemma, with a decision to be made between two or more possible decisions or paths to take.
As we [...]
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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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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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The Mirror of Relationship
May 18th, 2009 · No Comments · Carl Jung, Identity, Individuation, Meaning, Psychotherapy, Relationships, The Self, depression, depth psychology, life passages, midlife, soul, unlived life, wholeness
He woke up one day, and realized that he didn't recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through the motions.
Certainly, he loved his kids, now in [...]
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A Quotation from Carl Jung on Midlife Transition
February 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Anxiety, Carl Jung, Individuation, Jungian analysis, Jungian psychology, Meaning, Psychotherapy, depression, depth psychology, dreams, life passages, midlife, soul, unlived life
As I mentioned in my last post, I'm planning to add some posts to this blog that are built around quotations from Carl Jung, in addition to the posts that are my own reflections.
This is because I think that Jung's own thoughts and language often have some very good things to say to us [...]
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Middle Aged Person Traumatized by Financial Losses…
January 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Current Affairs, Trauma, Wellness, depression, depth psychology, dreams, life passages, midlife, panic
Maybe you know this person, or maybe it's you. When it comes right down to it … who DIDN't lose a lot of money in the Fall of 2008?
However, the person we're describing thought that everything was going great financially, and that they were in investments that were "safe as houses" — until last Fall. Then things suddenly [...]
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