SEPARATIO: The Alchemical Secret That Ends Confusion
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>Alchemical separatio is the skill of sorting out your mind. You separate what belongs to you—your complexes, habitual triggers, and painful memories--from what is happening in the world around you. In the laboratory of your life, you separate present triggers from older wounds, and literal facts from symbolic meanings. This is part of your essential self-ordering instinct. As you bring more and more of yourself into conscious awareness, a delightful calm will tell you you’re on the right path. Join us and learn how to gain the profound clarity necessary on the path of Individuation.</p><p><br></p><p>Read along with the dream <a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/separatio/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">HERE</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p>
1h 9m
LUCID DREAMING: How to Make the Most of a Magical Opportunity
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>Lucid dreaming is an interesting ego state when we are dreaming and regain full self-awareness. Being awake in the dream world can be useful, but imposing a rigid agenda can undermine the Dream Maker’s attempts to educate and help us. Each dream is crafted to incrementally expand our awareness and acceptance of unconscious factors we need in order to grow. When we wake inside a dream, we can lose track of that important attitude and may use the dream as our playground—most people try to fly and miss significant opportunities. If we can achieve a non-grasping clarity, lucidity can deepen our inner work by enabling us to engage dream figures with the full measure of our curiosity. Researchers have various suggestions for increasing the frequency of Lucid Dreams, and ancient traditions like Dream Yoga help the aspirant learn about their mental structures. Attaining access to the inner worlds is similar to Jung’s Active Imagination and can yield comparable or even better results. This is possible if we adopt a proper dream ethic: respect the dream as an autonomous process and use lucidity to inquire and relate, not to dominate.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/lucid_dreaming/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Read along with the dream HERE.</a></p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/lucid-dreaming-this-jungian-life" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Find the books we reference HERE.</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p>
1h 0m
[SUBSCRIBER BONUS] Should I Marry My First and Only Partner?
<p>In this free edition of Jung Love, our subscriber bonus content, a Patron asks:</p><p><br></p><p>"My fiancé and I have known each other since we were 17. Neither one of us has really ever dated anyone else. We're both 29 now and due to be married in October. I love him, and he's my best friend, but I find as our wedding date gets closer, I'm having second thoughts.</p><p><br></p><p>I'm about to commit myself to never being with anyone else ever again, and I can't help wondering what I might be missing. Should I go forward with the marriage despite my worries?"</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Support This Jungian Life on Patreon</a> and ask Lisa, Deb, and Joseph your questions for a chance to have them answered on Jung Love.</p>
9m
Shadow, Evil, and Individuation: Jung’s View of the Devil
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>The devil archetype carries three qualities: it promotes bestial violence of every kind, it tries to convince us that the material world is the only reality, and it fools us into thinking we can spiritually ascend through intellect alone. On a personal level, it gathers our disowned infernal traits—envy, rage, greed, and the wish to dominate —and seduces us into believing those qualities are virtues. Once we face our own devilishness and grant it a symbolic form, we can assume a choiceful stance. Lacking that, we try to evacuate our own evil by projecting it onto others and then punishing them. As Jungians, we understand that our inferior function will first present as an imp. Still, with kind concern and thoughtful opportunities, it can transform into an uncanny ally that rescues us from malignant innocence. In its subtle form, the demonic attitude tempts us into literalism as it attacks our capacity to reflect and hold a symbolic attitude. Join us as we circumambulate The Devil in honor of Halloween.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/the-devil">Read along with the dream.</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p>
1h 18m
Horror as a Mirror: What Netflix’s MONSTER Makes Us See
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>The new controversial Netflix series MONSTER: The Ed Gein Story offers a window into the devouring mother archetype, a transformation fantasy gone horribly wrong, and the human capacity for monstrous behavior. Gein’s crimes inspired the Hitchcock movie Psycho, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Silence of the Lambs. It challenges the audience to confront its fascination with evil and begs the question, where do the monsters hide in our own Psyche? To help us wrestle with these questions, we’re joined by Joey Pollari—actor, musician, director, editor, and the man who plays Anthony Perkins in the show. We’ll explore how intimacy with darkness affects a performer, how public persona and private pain intersect, and why we continue watching when the camera reveals what we’d rather not know. Trigger warning: this episode discusses violence, death, criminality, and severe mental illness.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Learn More about Joey Pollari:</strong></p><p>Listen to Joey’s new song<strong>,</strong><a href="https://ampl.ink/0MBaz?fbclid=PAQ0xDSwNjNytleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABp32uXVC-T98xr8vzbtLu2NPoMu9C9DIpFLMpELQyKlRSXwQgQN4ZEzEgp3MZ_aem_m5WjPexW9wCew1XbiI0f2w" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> I’ll Be Romance</a></p><p><a href="https://joeypollari.cargo.site/Music-1" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Joey’s Music</a></p><p><a href="https://joey-pollari.cargo.site/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joey’s Directing and Editing Work</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2239942/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joey’s Acting Roles</a></p><p><a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/monster-the-ed-gein-story" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">READ MORE ABOUT THE EPISODE.</a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p>
1h 23m
People Pleasing Is Making You Sick!
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>People Pleasing is a compulsive strategy that disavows your needs and surrenders your agency. It begins in family systems that only reward compliance, which produces a false self. If your soul is constantly devalued, you may develop dependent narcissism with a covert contract: “I’ll keep you happy, and you’ll keep me safe.” Healing comes when you identify your true experience—notice whether you feel drained, tense, or obligated versus calm, interested, or genuinely willing. Give yourself permission to pause before agreeing. Say, “I’ll think about it,” step away to check in, rate how much you do or don’t like the request, and give a clear yes/no. Say yes only when it aligns with your values and can be revised; a yes aimed at managing someone else’s mood or bolstering your self-worth is unhealthy and requires deeper work. Growth requires inner authority and the courage to be disliked so that your choices follow Psyche rather than external approval.</p><p><br></p><p><a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/People-Pleasing/"><strong>Read along with the dream HERE.</strong></a></p><p><br></p><p>Find the books we reference <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/people-pleasing">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a><strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p>
1h 20m
Taming Your Inner Critic: Turn Self-Attack into Self-Awareness
<p><strong></strong><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer"><strong>DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</strong></a><strong></strong></p><p><br></p><p>Our inner critic—that voice constantly tearing us down—can stem from difficult childhood experiences, negative cultural messages, or even powerful archetypal forces deep within us. While healthy self-assessment involves honestly owning our mistakes, feeling genuine regret, and making amends, the harsh inner critic keeps us stuck in cycles of self-hatred and shame.</p><p><br></p><p>Sometimes, beating ourselves up can actually be a sneaky way to avoid openly engaging a problem or soberly accepting responsibility. The trick is to slow down, get curious, and talk back to that voice—to have an honest inner dialogue rather than just giving in. At its worst, the inner critic can be devastating, pulling us toward despair; that's precisely when we need the support of others and deeper wisdom—turning toward the Self will help us find a path to peace.</p><p>Read along with our dream interpretation <a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/inner_critic/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.</p><p>Here’s a <a href="https://bookshop.org/lists/inner-critic" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">list of the books</a> we discussed.</p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a><strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/WellspringItaly2025" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lisa’s leading a retreat in ITALY!</a></p><p><a href="https://cgjungphiladelphia.org/seminar.shtml" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Learn more about the Philadelphia Jung Seminar</a></p>
1h 19m
SHARK: Elemental Symbol of Our Will to Survive and Ravenous Hunger for Experience
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>Primeval, silent, relentless—the shark announces itself as its fin slices the water. In that instant, ego’s barriers shudder and give way: you’re not anxious; you’re utterly alert, stripped of distraction by a force both familiar and uncanny.</p><p><br></p><p>When you stop battling that raw terror and honor it—offer a silent libation of attention—the predator becomes a protector. Here, in the shark’s unblinking gaze, you meet the stranger in your depths, the animality you once fled, now guiding you to face what you’ve long denied.</p><p><br></p><p>Read along with our dream analysis <a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/shark/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a><strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/WellspringItaly2025" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa’s leading a retreat in ITALY!</a></p>
52m
MOTIVATION: What Happens When Your Get-Up-and-Go Leaves Without You?
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p><br></p><p>Motivation rises from conscious and unconscious dynamics. We can reason with ourselves to take logical action while our libido flows with its own intelligence. When these two aspects align, we find ourselves acting decisively and effectively with remarkable freedom. When we’re at odds with the secret intelligence of the unconscious, we can find ourselves uncomfortably suspended. As we honor the autonomy of Psyche and cultivate a curious friendship with it, we can discover a creative collaboration that sets us in a fresh direction aligned with the Self.</p><p><br></p><p>Read along with our dream analysis <a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/motivation" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a><strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/WellspringItaly2025" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lisa’s leading a retreat in ITALY!</a></p>
1h 5m
Sibling Rivalry: Archetypal Conflicts and Shadow Dynamics in Families
<p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!</a></p><p>Sibling rivalry can bruise and build in equal measure. On the hard side, the older child feels toppled from the throne, the younger scrambles for a foothold, and both learn how quickly envy, resentment, and score-keeping ignite—whether over a parent’s extra hour of attention or the larger slice of birthday cake. Those early contests can calcify into adult grudges that surface in estate negotiations, workplace jockeying, or mismatched relationships.</p><p>Yet the same daily friction teaches useful skills: we sharpen empathy by reading a sibling’s next move, develop a theory of mind through constant negotiation, and discover that competition does not rule out loyalty—especially when a crisis calls every rival home. Listen and discover how sibling rivalry is both the first training ground for conflict and the first workshop for cooperation, shaping how we handle fairness, attachment, and resilience for the rest of our lives.</p><p>Read along with our dream analysis <a href="https://thisjungianlife.com/sibling-rivalry" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">HERE</a>.</p><p><strong>LOOK & GROW</strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLdreamschool" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Join THIS JUNGIAN LIFE DREAM SCHOOL</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLpodcastideas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Do you have a topic you want us to cover?</a></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/TJLPatreon" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">WE NEED YOUR HELP! Become a patron to keep TJL running.</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://this-jungian-life.printify.me/products" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We've got totally NEW MERCH!</a><strong></strong></p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/senddream" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">We’d like to take a crack interpreting your dream.</a><strong></strong></p><p>If you’ve been struggling in the dark, trying to find the keys to unlock your dreams, help has arrived. Order your copy of <a href="https://a.co/d/5ixb5mD" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams</a> from the hosts of This Jungian Life podcast and open the secret door.</p><p><a href="https://tinyurl.com/WellspringItaly2025" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Lisa’s leading a retreat in ITALY!</a></p>
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