by Joseph Lee | Mar 4, 2021 | Personal Issues, Relationships
Photo Credit: Engin Akyurt via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_153-Anger.mp3 Like fire in a wood-burning stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. The fires of resentment are lit when we feel needy and...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 26, 2021 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Vadislav Babienko via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_152-YA.mp3 The twenties are a period of emerging adulthood, a time to engage in the maturational tasks of finding one’s place in the wider world and forming intimate...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 18, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: John Towner via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_151-Truth-v2.mp3 Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus two must...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 11, 2021 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_150-Facing-Feelings.mp3 While we welcome “good” feelings, we often try to banish “bad” ones like sadness, fear, vulnerability and shame. We may deny them by trying to...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 4, 2021 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Emiliano Vittoriosi via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_149-Self_Loathing-v3.mp3 The judgmental inner voice of self-loathing has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding...