Early in the New Year, hope can be a very important thing, as Jungians and other /a-midlife-transitions well know. Hope is not just centered around the success of the particular goals that we in our ego-bound way might set. It's much more fundamentally concerned with…
Burnout is incredibly common during midlife transition. In fact, there may be a great deal of disillusionment and fatigue connected to living in work and other social roles and in meeting their expectations.
Hope is key to individual case studies — especially for the Jungian therapist. It is always true that the hope of the client is going to be essential to the healing process of the psyche. But, especially in an age like ours, with the continual struggle that many face…
The story of rescue of the miners trapped at the bottom of the mine at Copiapo, Chile embodies resilience,to a remarkable degree. The world's media have been following the fortunes of the miners with tremendous verve and intensity. From a psychological point of view, why…
There are many things in the 2010s that can easily make people feel powerless. In addition, the majority of us struggle, or have had to struggle with our own inner wounds. What we each need to meet our lives is what psychologists increasingly refer to…
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…
Following on from my last blog post on trust and betrayal, the following are four truths about the experience of betrayal of trust. They are surprisingly easy to state. However, really taking in what they mean for our lives is likely a much bigger psychological task. 1.…
An article from the Globe and Mail of 12 May 2010 , “Working regular overtime linked to increased heart attack risk” raises some very serious questions about the way that we’re living now: //bit.ly/99TwPg The article cites a study published in the European Heart Journal, which finds…
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…
Does February bring us any gifts? How could it?... Here are some things that might be helpful to think about at this time. They've proved valuable to me, so I leave them with you for your consideration