by thisjungian | Aug 8, 2019 | Personal Issues
Although only some of us talk aloud to ourselves, all of us have inner voices, even if we are not aware of them. These autonomous parts of ourselves provide running commentary on how and what we are doing. Are our inner commentators friendly and supportive, or...
by thisjungian | Aug 1, 2019 | Relationships
Photo Credit: Gregory Hayes, hayesphotoandfilm@gmail.com We define dating as the quest for serious partnership or ongoing companionship. Today’s dating world is radically different from that of even a generation ago, and is light years away from previous...
by thisjungian | Jul 25, 2019 | Personal Issues
The life transition we call retirement mandates a major readjustment in how time, energy and money are spent, whether retirement means becoming a “snowbird” or having a stepped-down lifestyle. Work has structured the rhythm of life and time; most have...
by thisjungian | Jul 18, 2019 | Personal Issues
Chronic illnesses affect many, creating diminishment of physical ability and energy for life activities. There can be loss of agency, loss of one’s expected future, and a sharpened awareness of loss of life. There is a new need for conscious intention and...
by thisjungian | Jul 11, 2019 | Personal Issues
Experiences of physical abandonment are depicted in stories old and new as ways of out-picturing traumas of early relational abandonment. Jung articulated the archetypal foundation of what later psychologists came to call attachment theory. In an infant’s...