It can be a very difficult thing to come to terms with being “ordinary”. Often, we even have very well-developed defenses that keep us from avoiding this realization. In fact, the denial of our own ordinary being can be one of the things that propels…
There is no easy way with anger. It can be one of the most powerful psychological forces that we experience. As an old song once said, “anger is an energy” — and it can be a force for growth in a person’s life, or a…
The present economic conditions are deeply challenging to the ways that we all think about ourselves and our lives. It takes a toll on all of us to be constantly bombarded with negative economic news that often seems only to get worse with each passing day.…
One of the larger age groups that come to me for therapy are people who are at or right around the age of 45. © Aleksandar Nikolov Dreamstime.com This is not entirely surprising to me. For many people at this age, there is a…
It seemed as if the world’s stock markets might have finally turned a corner early this week, in response to concerted action from the world’s governments. Now things seem somewhat less certain. Since I last posted, people throughout the world have endured bout after bout of bad financial…
These are anxious days in suburbia, and in fact throughout North America and the rest of the developed world. As I write, the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has mushroomed into a full-blown crisis. Many of my American readers live in areas like…
Most of the analytical psychology of Carl Jung ultimately revolves around the idea and image of the Self. It is here that his approach differs from that of so many other psychologies. What exactly does Jung mean when he uses this term? He certainly doesn’t mean…
Over the weekend my wife and I had the chance to see the Soulpepper Theatre production of Under Milk Wood, the Dylan Thomas work originally performed as a one-person monologue by the Welsh poet himself. Many other versions of Under Milk Wood have used a…