Life is full of all sorts of things that need our concern -- that's the source of the meaning in our lives. However, concern can get distorted into anxiety so intense that it gets in the way of our genuine living.
One of the things that we have to accept is that a certain amount of anxiety is a perfectly normal part of life. We have to expect that we will have -- and we need -- some anxiety. But that is not the same as…
One kind of help for anxiety is to take the restless character of anxiety seriously, and to fully explore it, as /a-midlife-transition does. Restlessness is a very frequently described symptom of anxiety. There are many individual experiences of anxiety in which restlessness is prominent --…
When it comes to help for anxiety, /a-midlife-transition can change our understanding and enable healing in depth. Depth case studies provides unique help for anxiety by staying with the key question, "What might anxiety be trying to communicate about my life?
In major life transitions, as we see in Jungian therapy, whether an individual obtains effective help for anxiety often depends on whether he or she can find a rooted, deep sense of security. here are some ways in which a Jungian perspective on security closely…
Rage isn't a popular emotion, nor an emotion that many people feel comfortable with admitting that they have. How do we deal with it, if we find it accompanying major life transitions?
Grief and loss are often fundamental aspects of major life transitions. No one wants to experience loss with respect to something that is valuable to him or her -- that is, in some sense or other, treasured. Do I need to acknowledge what I've lost?
Denial has been defined as "the refusal to acknowledge the existence or severity of unpleasant external realities or internal thoughts and feelings." How can it manifest in our lives when we are undergoing major life transitions?
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.