This Jungian Life

At the banquet...

You might imagine that a dance party with a bunch of Jungian analysts would be a dull affair... you would be wrong!

I’m in Santa Fe with Lisa and Deb. I just ate a citrus salted baby grasshopper, an alleged delicacy, and I’m sorting out my feelings about it!

Lisa and Deb in Santa Fe!

We’re in Santa Fe for our biennial conference. Great to be together!

Our March Q&A Is Here!

Thanks so much to all of the patrons who submitted questions. We'll do another Q&A in April, so please send other questions you might have. 

Changing Our Workflow

When I suggested to Joseph and Deb that the three of us do a podcast, I was thrilled by their immediate enthusiasm. It’s part of our friendship that I love — that they are optimistic and up-beat and willing to go with me on a fun adventure. None of us had ever done anything like this before, but we all know we wanted to give it a try.

We started brainstorming ideas and discussing possible ways to manage the logistics. We wanted to try to record in person both because it would give u...

Spending the winter in Florida

This is an experiment I was not as enthusiastic about as my husband was -- even though I slipped on the ice in Brooklyn last year and counted myself lucky to escape with merely a bruise (no, I won't mention where). Now that we are here, I appreciate Nature every day in her beneficent mode...though I will admit to a pang or two when I hear about a really good snowstorm up north with popcorn and a fire ~ Deb

We're Switching Things Up -- Q&A's Coming!

We've added a new benefit -- monthly recorded Q&A's. We'll answer questions you might have in a recorded video broadcast, and we'll put the link here. This benefit will take the place of the discussion questions which we had been providing. We didn't get a lot of feedback on those, so we wanted to try and add something that might have more value. 

We'll be recording our first Q&A in March. Please leave your questions below. If you would like to share your question privately...

Special Episode Exclusively for Patrons

Here is a private link to our special episode for patrons. Please note that if you submitted a dream for this episode and we did not discuss it, we will do our best to cover it in an upcoming episode.

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

An Exciting Adventure with Shrinkrap Radio.

This past monday Lisa. Deb and Joe were interviewed by Dr. David Van Nuys for his popular podcast. Take a gander! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha5CFAADUnI 

December update from Deb

With Thanksgiving over and more holidays coming, I’ve been thinking the holidays are life at warp speed. We have relatives from Iceland, escaping almost sunless days, and will soon join our daughter and family. There are gifts to wrap and mail and (a lot) of food to buy and prepare. Serenity is out of the question, but if I go to bed early I can channel an alternate universe: The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. I see that I’ve read it before from the un...

ADULTING episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Describe the dominate messages that you believe you received from you primary caregivers in childhood.

2. Which of those messages have you integrated into your life as ‘rules for living’?

3. How have those rules helped you?

4. How have they...

LONELINESS episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. How do you define loneliness?

2. How would you recognize loneliness in another adult? 

        a. How might it express differently in a child?

3. Describe an example of "toxic loneliness". 

Archetypal Dynamics of Gender Transition - episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

  “…we must assume a great mobility of the sexual components, which even goes so far that
 one component disappears almost completely while the other occupies the foreground.”

  CG Jung, CW 2, Para 248

Jung’s psycho...

Our first attempt at distance recording!

All our podcasts have been recorded with us in the same room - now we're trying to enter the modern era and meet in cyberspace. Yes - it felt as goofy as it looks :) 

The SCAPEGOAT - episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

· Describe an experience of observing someone being Scapegoated?

· How did it make you feel at the time?

· How you feel now, upon reflection?

· How did that experience influence the way you view yourself in the world?

· What might you n...

Happy Thanksgiving! We appreciate you.

FOOD ADDICTION - episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Describe an experience of eating compulsively. (Continuing to eat though you know you’ve had enough or eating until your stomach hurts).

   a. Describe what you did, thought and felt during the episode.

2. Describe the specific facto...

ESCAPING LITERALISM ~ episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Describe your personal understanding of Literalism?

2. Describe an experience when taking a literal attitude was comforting to you?

3. Describe an experience when opening yourself to a deeper symbolic or psychological attitude on a subject helped you...

ENVY & JEALOUSY episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. How would you differentiate Envy and Jealousy?

2. Describe and experience of Envy.

     a. How did you resolve those feelings?

3. Describe and experience of being envied?

     a. What did ...

In Cincinnati!

Deb, Joseph and I are together at our Jung society meeting in Cincinnati. It is pleasure being together again, as well as seeing many old friends and engaging in soulful discussion together around topics related to training. We'll be recording some episodes while we're here and current plans include having some fellow analysts join our conversation as a new experiment. Stay tuned!

--Lisa

Thank You New Orleans!

Shout Out to the New Orleans Jung Society ~ what a warm and welcoming fellowship. I had a chance to talk about Tikkun Olam: understanding the psychology of brokenness on Friday evening. On Saturday we rested in a reverie on images of the Amina Mundi and captured the experience in poetry. I was deeply moved by the soulful openness of the group. If you’re near NOLA check out their programs - http://www.jungneworleans.org/ 2018-10-16 05:57:01 +0000 UTC View Post

BOREDOM episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Rather than accepting an assumed meaning of the idea of Boredom- How would you define boredom - be as specific as possible?

2. To amplify that, what’s a quintessential example of boredom in your life?

3. What specific actions cou...

DREAM ANIMALS episode discussion questions

[Listeners have told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Describe a numinous experience you had with an animal in childhood?

2. Recount a dream that included an animal image? 

a. What feelings does that animal image evoke in you? 

b. How might those feelings help you to move forward in some...

BETRAYAL episode discussion questions

[Listeners told us that the podcasts have led to deep discussions with friends and family. In service to that we’d like to offer a few targeted questions to spice up the conversation or to use for self-reflective journaling.]

1. Describe a significant experience of being betrayed and how it affected you?

2. What experiences helped you move through the pain of being betrayed?

3. It’s normal to feel indignant toward the betrayer, but can you think of a time you knowingly or uncon...

Joseph and Lisa in Philadelphia.

Joseph, Deb, and I became friends through our years of Jungian training together through the Inter-regional Society of Jungian Analysts (IRSJA). We loved being connected by the shared journey of training, and our common interest in depth psychology. 

We each graduated in a different year -- me (Lisa) first, then Deb, then Joseph. It was incredibly relieving to finally get through the program, and I felt a tremendous sense of accomplishment, but I also felt bereft to have been sundered fro...

What I'm Reading... "The Master and His Emissary"

Lisa here! Recently I've been making my way through a book that is rewiring my synapses and causing me to question and realign a lot of Jungian theory in a way that I believe will ultimately be very fruitful. It isn't often that I read a book that feels like it will have such a profound effect on how I understand myself, my patients and my world. 

The book is "The Master and His Emissary," by Ian McGilchrist. It's a book many people have been speaking about, so my additional thoughts abou...