I was fortunate enough last Saturday to see Soulpepper Theatre's production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. Lots of people know the story of Willy Loman, the disintegrating salesman at the centre of the play, and the drama of his decline and eventual death.…
As I indicated in Part 1 of this post, if we really get serious about the task of being honest with ourselves, sooner or later, we are going to run into what Jung calls the Shadow. The Shadow represents all those parts of ourselves that…
Hopefully I have succeeded in making one very central thing clear: regret is not some peripheral thing in our lives that is going to be cleared away by simply improving our thinking. It strikes deeper. It is much more fundamental. How then are we to…
Regret can be a potent emotion, and a great many of us have experienced its power. In my next few postings, I will be examining the phenomenon of regret, and the way it impacts us. It can have a huge grip on us. It can…
In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of “taboo” about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years. There are greater and greater demands on our personal…
Make no mistake, moving is living. -Ryan Bingham “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick. Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time corporate down-sizer whose life consists of an endless stream of business travel (“322 days…
Often people get to the point in life where they reach an impasse, and they don’t know how to solve a particular situation in their lives. There doesn’t seem to be a way forward and there doesn’t seem to be a solution. Although this can happen at any point in…
Here’s a reflection-provoking quote from Jung on how we tend to see other people. “Everybody thinks that psychology is what he himself knows best — psychology is always his psychology, which he alone knows, and at the same time his psychology is everybody else’s psychology. Instinctively he…
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…
