Why Do We Push People Away? Understanding our Defenses
Defense mechanisms function as unconscious psychological strategies we deploy to navigate reality and sustain a consistent self-image. They act as a shield, guarding against feelings of anxiety, shame...
28 Sep 20231h 38min
SELKIE FOLKLORE: Should we force soul to serve us?
The Selkie swims ashore at night, sheds her seal skin, hides it, and delights in her human form. In Celtic lore, she is the wild feminine soul, a creature of land and sea, innocent and beautiful, who ...
21 Sep 20231h 21min
INITIATIONS: universal processes that spark transformation
The archetype of Initiation is primordial, and its force guides our transformative transitions. For Jung, this change reshapes spiritual, emotional, intellectual, behavioral, and social dynamics. Root...
14 Sep 20231h 15min
The Barbie Movie: Can it Dismantle an American Myth?
[Spoiler Alert.] In the opening scene of the Barbie movie, listless little girls dressed as drab Dust Bowl mothers play at ironing as they tend plastic babies until a gigantic cosmic Barbie appears on...
7 Sep 20231h 20min
From SHAMANISM to JUNG: Understanding 'Loss of Soul'
As Jung’s anthropological studies expanded and his international travel exposed him to new cultures and ideas, he was taken by the concept of ‘loss of soul.’ A collapse of energy, a strange sudden alt...
31 Aug 20231h 28min
HAGITUDE: Sharon Blackie on the power of aging
Sharon Blackie calls us to the ancient archetype of the Hag as a figure of unapologetic emergence from cultural pressures that lock us into outworn roles and limiting beliefs. Drawing upon her transfo...
24 Aug 20231h 50min
THREE VOICES, ONE SONG: Lessons in Friendship
The essence of friendship is visible in its linguistic root: ‘to love.’ Cicero wrote, “Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief." In mo...
17 Aug 20231h 33min
You're Not A Fraud: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome constellates the gut-wrenching fear of being exposed as a fraud no matter how much we have learned or the successes we have demonstrated. In 1978 two researchers identified and explo...
10 Aug 20231h 25min
