Here’s something that Jung writes in Memories, Dreams and Reflections that might seem to hit you right where you live. That’s the effect it has on me, certainly. It comes out of the time that Jung spent amongst the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico in…
He woke up one day, and realized that he didn’t recognize his marriage, his partner or himself. He realized that things had gone on in a certain way for years and years, but that for a long time now, he had just been going through…
Carl Jung had the following dream when he was about to embark on a new path in his psychological work. The dream is of a type that is familiar to Jungian therapists, as it is a kind of dream that many people have, sometimes at key…
In Part One on this subject, I looked at the connection between stress and our relationship to our own deepest being, the Self. In this post, I examine the way that stress plays out in our daily lives, and some possible ways in which we can…
In 1931, over 75 years ago, C. G. Jung gave an interview to an American journalist in Vienna. In it, he laid out a description of what he saw as some of the central dilemmas facing Americans. In this moment, we are in the…
Here in Oakville, Mississauga and the surrounding areas, many people are really feeling the impact of recent economic events. There is a strong sense that the last 6-8 months have brought a lot of changes to people’s economic and business situations. Things are not feeling anywhere near…
This is the third part and final part in my series “Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?” PART ONE dealt with some of the familiar things that go on when people start therapy, and PART TWOfocused on “Five Things that Sustain Me on the…
This is the second part in my series “Therapy: Pain-Killer or Path to Myself?” PART ONE appeared last week. In this second part, I discuss some things from my own experience of therapy throughout the years, and in particular, 5 THINGS THAT SUSTAIN ME ON THE…
People are most commonly motivated to come into therapy or counseling because they are in serious distress or pain. I know that’s what motivated me to start on my own therapeutic journey many years ago. Often, it’s only intolerable pain that can bring someone to the point…