Dose of Depth

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  In  Chapter 22 – The Archetype Behind Your Complex – we learn that at the core of each complex is a universal human need.  As you begin exploring your unconscious, you will gain personal insights first, and this chapter is about taking the next step, and connectin...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose . In this episode, I’ll be reading Chapter 21, where we dig a little deeper into your personal shadow and take on the tricky topic of projection.  You’ve probably come across the concept of projection over the past couple years. It’s become a part of daily conversati...

Did you know that your body has a subtle physiology, that your cells express rhythmic movement that is fundamental to life? Did you know that when we are in stillness, we are part of the universal stillness from which life evolves? In this episode, we’re going to deepen into the idea of wellness during my conversation with Jane Shaw , a beautiful kind soul whose presence whether in person, video,...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  Chapters 1-15 explored the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was about a technique called active imagination. Chapter 18 was about exploring dreams, and...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  Chapters 1-15 explored the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was about a technique called active imagination. Chapter 18 was about exploring dreams, and...

In this episode, we take on the huge topic of addiction and trauma with my guest Alex Castro Croy, Director and President of Life Recovery Centers in Northglenn and Denver, Colorado.  Alex is a licensed professional counselor, licensed addictions counselor, and a bilingual EMDR certified-trauma informed therapist. What a background: 15 years combined experience as a drug court probation officer an...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  Just to remind you, Chapters 1-15 explored all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was all about a technique called active imagination. In Chapter 18,...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  You made it! Chapters 1-15 explored all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images. It’s the foundation for all the other methods. In Chapter 17, we’re going to learn about...

In this episode,  I have a chat with Jennifer Day,  the founder of LifeShine Design .  Jen is an emotional wellness coach, and her combination of background, life experiences and formal training reflects her appreciation for the meandering nature of coming into deeper relationship with your Self, or inner being.   In the language of depth psychology, Jen’s approach to working with clients expresse...

In this episode, I read a recent blog post: Still Stewing About the Last Fight with Your Romantic Partner? A New Framework for Finding the Deeper Purpose of Relationships .  I was contemplating how to begin a depth psychology coaching session with a couple. There had been an unusually dramatic conflict the week before. Like a volcanic eruption, something hot and fiery had been unleashed and days l...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  In Chapter 16, I give you a whole other way to think about the purpose behind your mind wandering, or why certain memories come up, and the sneaky way our unconscious uses fantasies, especially those of a sexual nature.  I used to think we created fantasies, sort...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  You made it! Now that you’ve learned all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention, and hopefully you reflected or journaled along the way about a dream or two, or found how your mother or father complex is getting in your way in your marriag...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about my favorite topic, sexuality,  which is different than sex. I know you'll enjoy my chat with  another PhD friend, Dr. Shaun Miller, who earned his PhD in philosophy from Marquette University. His focus is the philosophy of sex, relationships, sexuality education, gender, and how to increase well-being through sexuality. I love this quote by C.G. Jung...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  Chapter 13 is about complexes, which simply are patterns of behavior and thinking that are rooted in childhood, and many patterns that were once neutral and helpful can suddenly become problematic.  Because complexes get triggered during times of stress, dispropor...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  Chapter 14 is about relationships. Once I knew I was getting divorced, a doorway opened for a younger man to unleash some pent-up desire. When he moved on, I couldn’t get any relief for my unleashed desire, so I self-consciously hit the online dating scene.  Each...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose . Chapter 12 is about how your natural psychological type  is another way your unconscious speaks.  Digging into your psychological type helps to explain why you respond to events in certain ways. Becoming consciously competent about a strength allows you to use it m...

My book seeks to empower you with the knowledge of how the unconscious speaks as well as a framework for exploring those messages, which come in many forms, including emotions and how we use feelings to label those emotions. This is the topic of Chapter 11. Family gatherings are great opportunities to explore the deeper meaning of your emotions. What are your family gatherings like? For many, the...

In this episode, we’re going to talk about corporations – through a depth psychology lens of course. Dr. Elizabeth Martin is Senior Vice President leading Strategy & Innovation for Optum Serve, the federal health serveices business of both Optum and UnitedHealth Group. Elizabeth is licensed to practice law in both New Mexico & Texas. She is an attorney, former CEO of a $430 million managed...

In Chapter 10, I talk about another way your unconscious speaks to you – through bodily symptoms and injuries.  During one of my somatic depth psychology courses – soma means body – I was intrigued by an active imagination exercise offered in one of the textbooks. In the exercise, my imagination took me in an elevator down to my stomach, my womb. When the elevator door opened, I felt the warmth an...

Enjoy my chat with Vlado Solc about what's beneath the surface of fundamentalism and conspiracy theories. He is the author of  (written in partnership with George Didier). Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology .  Links to resources mentioned in the interview: Vlado's book, Dark Religion 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari The Red Book,...

In this episode, I read a recent blog post titled: What is Generation Z Mirroring Back to Us? I wrote it after a couple conversations with Mom’s about their young adult Gen Z sons. I have two Generation Z young adults myself, a son, and a daughter.  The phrase tone-deaf comes to mind if you’re surprised about why the young folks coming of age right now struggle with anxiety, lack of motivation, an...

In Chapter 9, I talk about another way your unconscious speaks to you – through obsessions and symptoms like anxiety and even depression.  When I moved down to my beach town, fantasies of reconnecting with a man with whom I had spent a couple nights with and felt deep connection, emerged and plagued me. I saw his likeness everywhere, and I became obsessed with him.  Ahh. But I considered that my o...

In this episode, I chat with Dr. Christy Gardner about float tanks and float therapy. You might have heard about it or even tried it out, or maybe it’s a regular part of your self-care. For many, it’s a great way to relax or even escape from the over-stimulating nature of living in today’s world.  But you know me. There’s something deeper going on in that float tank and looking at it through the l...

In Chapter 8, I talk about dreams, which C.G. Jung said were a direct route to the unconscious. There is no fixed meaning to dreams, and the goal is not to allow the ego to interpret or dismiss. You don’t need any of that to benefit by exploring your dreams. Think of working with dreams to prompt those things in your unconscious to come out and play with you.  It wasn’t until years after my midlif...

In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose .  In this book, I teach the language of the unconscious to help you notice the subtle messages you Soul is using to get your attention. Then I offer you a framework for decoding and finding meaning in the messages. Insights come fast at times, and sometimes take yea...