by Joseph Lee | Feb 11, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_150-Facing-Feelings.mp3 While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 4, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_149-Self_Loathing-v3.mp3 The judgmental inner voice of self-loathing has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding...
by Joseph Lee | Jan 8, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Sean Benesh via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_145-Willpower.mp3 The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape the rule...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 10, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Johannes Plenio via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_141-Fantasy.mp3 Is fantasizing helpful or harmful? Fantasy is the process of engagement with unconscious processes, from the depths of the mythic unconscious to the...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 3, 2020 | Personal Issues
Photo credit: Niklas Hamann via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_140-Doubt.mp3 Doubt can help or hinder us. Doubt disturbs us. Unlike the more defined polarities of ambivalence, doubt is pervasive, muddy, and ranges from crippling to...
by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 22, 2020 | Personal Issues, Therapy Related
Suicidal depression is a phenomenon unique to the human species. Depression, rage, and powerlessness can overwhelm ego functions, leading someone to believe that escaping life is the only option. Affects of archetypal proportions can act like tsunamis in the psyche....