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The story you tell yourself about your life journey is a matter of vital importance. Jungians refer to it as your personal myth or personal mythology.

The wise old person is an image or symbol found deep within human culture. Does this represent something real in the human psyche? Can we access it?

Over my years as Jungian analyst / /a-midlife-transition, I've heard a lot of people ask "Am I making the right decision?" It's often a crucial question.

It's natural, and almost a truism to speak of finding hope for the New Year. But how do we actually do that? And what should we put our hope and trust in?

Coping with uncertainty is a theme I've explored before, but it seems to have a lot of relevance for the end of our current year, 2022.

The yearly arrival of the Holidays reminds us of both continuity and the passage of time. What does this mean for tending the soul, the essence of ourselves?

"Tending the soul through the holidays" is the theme I've chosen for a series of blog posts for the period leading up to the Holidays at the end of December.

In recent years the phrase "on my bucket list" has come into popular parlance. This isn't surprising; it's a phrase we often find useful.

"Real life after retirement?' some might ask, "Is that a thing?" It most certainly is, but you'd never know it from the messaging we get around retirement.

It's common for we humans to find that we have unfinished business in later life. We all carry different things that cry out for some kind of resolution.