Psychological shock is not the same thing as physiological shock, but it can have a profound effect. Shock occurs in highly emotionally laden situations in our lives, including major life transitions.
In the Fall start up, whether we are aware or not, our imagination is powerfully activated. We can imagine the greatest possible outcomes for ourselves or our children, and we can often imagine the most threatening and scary outcomes.
The busy-ness of this season can make it hard to find time to reflect on very much at all. Yet, there may be some very profound things that we need to consider. Real anxiety is often associated with this time. If I do need help…
Children, and the symbol of the child, produce an incredibly strong emotional/instinctual response in us. And I think that there is scarcely any time of the year when the potential for that archetypal response gets more activated than in the "back to school" season.
Often parents of school age kids feel a need at this time for help with anxiety -- for many very good reasons. But others feel restless and anxious as well, whether they have children or not. ...What does Fall evoke ? We may need help…
Freedom is a word often heard in counselling for anxiety; it's also a key concept in /a-midlife-transition. People who are really gripped by anxiety want nothing more than to be free of it. We all deeply yearn for freedom; but can we really tolerate having…
Depth case studies concerns self-acceptance, and counselling for anxiety often emphasizes that we are "enough" to deal with the situations of our lives. So, what does it mean to to feel that we are "enough"? How do we gain that level of self acceptance?
We are all know from our experience of anxiety that we are not really in the present when gripped by an anxious state. Psychologically, anxiety pulls us into the past or the future -- and possibly both.
Effective counselling for anxiety involves understanding its root causes, and /a-midlife-transition gives us insight into the basis of anxiety underlying the conscious mind. Using Jung's characteristic metaphor of emotion or affect as energy, we might view anxiety as energy that doesn't know where, or how,…
It's actually painful to be an overly driven person, as both Jungian therapy and therapy for anxiety in general recognize. When any of us allows ourselves to get caught in this way, we run a great risk of chronically devaluing our inner life, and our…