Interacting with certain relatives in holiday situations can be a debilitating stressor. Individual case studies knows, that if there is any time of the year when we really need to "hang onto ourselves", this is it. Of the several issues that make the holidays difficult…
For Jungian case studies, spirit and matter are not fundamentally opposed, but profoundly related. Many a spiritual crisis erupts from a disconnect betweet the two.
We come into the world ready to belong, to attach -- we might well say that instinct has something archetypal about it, It may be essential to the resolution of any spiritual crisis for an individual to experience a sense of rightness to his or…
We often deal with disconnect between what others -- friends, employers, advertisers, the society as a whole -- are telling us is real, and the disquieting sense that there must be something more. We sense that what we are looking for is missing from what…
This post examines the implications of a quote from Jung: The psychic situation of the individual is so menaced nowadays by advertising, propaganda and other more or less well-meant advice & suggestions. For once in his life might {the individual} be offered a relationship that…
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,…
Shame is a fundamental aspect and problem of human existence. We need to find ways to live with it, and move through it. But it's a thing that we can often find hard to talk to anyone about, even though we may feel a great…