by Lisa Marchiano | Oct 1, 2020 | Personal Issues, Relationships
We celebrate curiosity’s role in discovery, and regret its potential for damage. Mature curiosity demands that we embrace the confusion, doubt and anxiety inherent in engaging new ideas and complex problems. Social curiosity requires discernment: are we genuinely and...
by Lisa Marchiano | Sep 17, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
Jung teaches that soul and spirit have a home in a living body, the font of psyche’s images and means of their incarnation in the world. Embodiment is the ground of being, and engaging the tension between instinct and archetype shapes consciousness and character. Jung...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 27, 2020 | Cultural Currents, Personal Issues
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_126-Money-v3-d.mp3 Money reflects our shadows and strengths as much as our bank accounts. Like Hermes, money traverses the realms from Hades to Heaven–money can be a matter of survival, and money can turn...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 20, 2020 | Core Jungian Concepts, Personal Issues
The provisional life might be defined as a vague malaise: current relationships, work, and lifestyle feel like placeholders until the ‘real thing’ arrives—someday. If early life circumstances made over-conforming to others’ needs and expectations necessary, persona...
by Lisa Marchiano | Aug 14, 2020 | Personal Issues, Relationships
When far from life in the wild, relationships with animals are often through pets. We find kinship and difference in our friends of very foreign origin. Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our...
by Lisa Marchiano | Jul 23, 2020 | Personal Issues, Relationships
https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/thisjungianlife/TJL_121_Inner-Companion-d.mp3 When you’re down, and in trouble, and you need some loving care…You just call out my name, and you know wherever I am, I’ll come running to see you again…you’ve got a friend. Carole King...