by Joseph Lee | Oct 20, 2022 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Christopher Lemercier via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_236-Problems.mp3 Problems can pester, persist and plague. They range from short-lived to chronic, bothersome to heart-wrenching, resolvable to unalterable. Problems cause...
by Joseph Lee | Oct 13, 2022 | Personal Issues, Therapy Related
Photo Credit: Cesar Carlevarino-Aragon via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_235-OCD.mp3 Obsessions are unwanted, intrusive thoughts; compulsions are unwarranted, involuntary behaviors. Though different, they often go together, for compulsions...
by Joseph Lee | Sep 1, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Peter Forster via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_229-Hatred.mp3 Hatred is a universal human emotion related to distancing and destroying. Hatred is anger, disgust, judgment, and contempt cemented into implacable permanence....
by Joseph Lee | Jun 10, 2022 | Core Jungian Concepts, Cultural Currents, Metaphysical, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Mathias Reding via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_217-Death.mp3 Awareness of death can help us create an intentional life—one that serves the movement of soul toward wholeness. Jung realized that although we experience death as...
by Joseph Lee | May 19, 2022 | Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Fernando via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_214-Homesickness.mp3 From Homer’s Odyssey to the Wizard of Oz our native soil draws us home, whether home is a small Greek island or a simple Kansas farm. The soul has a natural longing...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 10, 2022 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Photo Credit: Petar Milošević via Wikimedia commons The Jungian concept of amor fati offers a path to embracing life as it is, not as we wish it would be. In Greek mythology, three Fates represented life forces beyond our control. One spun the thread of life,...