Dear Reader, This has been a long, snowbound winter that has left many of us longing to see the tender green sprouts of spring peeping up through the earth. But in my heart there is a place that is …
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Dear Reader, In my last newsletter I quoted the Jungian analyst and author June Singer as saying that an analyst is needed who is not only wise and compassionate, but also singed, scorched and seasoned. I added that this sentence …
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Dear Reader, “An analyst is needed who is not only wise and compassionate, but also singed, scorched and seasoned: someone who understands how tough life really is” is a sentence that vibrated through my being like an electric current when …
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Dear Reader, Since I listed “weight” as a future topic, many of you have asked me to go ahead and share some of my reflections about it. When I was eight years old, my family was caught in a time …
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Dear Reader, Every week, and sometimes daily, I receive an email asking for advice about individuation. These requests must be very personal for the sender because they are sent to me and not put on my blog. People want to …
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Dear Reader, In response to my spring newsletter an epistolary friend of some years, John Rhead, suggested that I write something on “how do you prepare on a daily basis for your own death?” This topic isn’t one that I …
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Dear Reader, In the early 1970’s I joined a Centerpoint group and began learning about Jungian psychology. Within a couple of years a number of us who were pursuing this path founded the Jung Society of Atlanta. Then I jumped …
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