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Chronic Anger: Trapped in Resentment
Like fire in a wood-burning stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. The fires of resentment are lit when we fee…
5 years ago
Navigating Young Adulthood: Risks & Rewards
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 int…
5 years, 1 month ago
Truth Telling: Revelations & Realities
Subjective truths yield multiple realities—political and religious truths famously differ. Objective truths rely on independent realities—two plus tw…
5 years, 1 month ago
Facing Your Feelings: Avoidance or Encounter?
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 “think…
5 years, 1 month ago
Self-Loathing: What’s Gnawing on Your Bones?
The judgmental inner voice has volume, speed, pitch and range. It may appear as a perfectionistic critic, demanding taskmaster, or abusive bully. It …
5 years, 1 month ago
MYTH AS MEDICINE: An Interview with Kwame Scruggs, PhD
Kwame Scruggs inspires men through mythology, drumming and connection to community and culture. As a young man Kwame discovered his inner fire throug…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Archetype of the Good King
The king is figured prominently in myth, religion, and fairy tale. This compelling archetypal image has roots in our earliest human beginnings, when …
5 years, 2 months ago
Episode 146 - INFLATION: The Challenge of Archetypal Possession
Inflation applies to balloons, economics--and psychology. Jung defined it as being seized by archetypal energy resulting in “a puffed up attitude, lo…
5 years, 2 months ago
Willpower: Choice, Energy & the Power to Achieve
The ability to choose and exercise will is a defining characteristic of humans. Only humans have enough energy available to consciousness to escape t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Fierce Female Initiations: Claiming Authority & Selfhood Through Trials
Mythological Paths to Personal Potential
Myths and fairy tales depict women’s initiation into authority and adulthood. Hades abducted Kore (maiden) in…
5 years, 3 months ago