by Joseph Lee | Dec 29, 2022 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Personal Issues, Relationships
Photo Credit: Alexander Krivitskiy via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_246-Sex.mp3 Sex fascinates us. Whether we turn toward it, flushed and excited or away from it, tense and disquieted. Archetypal images of sex adorn the thresholds of ancient...
by Joseph Lee | Dec 22, 2022 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues, Relationships
Image Credit: Joseph Lee https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_245-Holiday.mp3 Holiday homecomings kindle hopes of achieving a domestic ideal, though family gatherings are also likely to evoke old roles and emotions. Families open a portal into the patterns...
by Joseph Lee | Nov 17, 2022 | Archetypal, Cultural Currents, Personal Issues, Relationships
Photo Credit: Kelly Sikkema via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_240.mp3 As our bonds to historic roles loosen, fathers are finding new ways to express themselves within the family dynamic. In 2014 Pew Research Center identified two million...
by Joseph Lee | Mar 3, 2022 | Personal Issues, Relationships
https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_203-Trust-v2.mp3 Intimate attachments, workplace effectiveness, and stable social systems depend on our ability to rely on one another. Trust is the foundation of social exchanges and benefits, from affection to...
by Joseph Lee | Feb 17, 2022 | Personal Issues, Relationships
Art Credit: William Blake https://traffic.libsyn.com/thisjungianlife/TJL_202-Forgiveness.mp3 Forgiveness has long been the province of morality, virtue, and religious values. Psychologically, forgiveness requires the capacity to hold both the magnitude of the injury...
by Joseph Lee | Nov 25, 2021 | Relationships
Photo Credits: Christian Buehne, Freestock, Tallie Robinson via Unsplash https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_190.mp3 Jung says, “Love is a power of destiny, whose force reaches from heaven to hell.” Falling in love is an initiation into the...