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 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 relationships. This stage of life calls for the ego strength...
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...