Developing the Capacity for Rational Choices
"As the world falls around us, how must we brave its cruelties?" -- Furiosa Imprisoned climate activist, Roger Hallam, recently wrote about the necessity of expanding emotional well-being as we…
"As the world falls around us, how must we brave its cruelties?" -- Furiosa Imprisoned climate activist, Roger Hallam, recently wrote about the necessity of expanding emotional well-being as we…
Many of us live in a punitive, carceral type of society that can make it difficult to have compassion for ourselves or others. It's an era of the glorification of…
Over thirty years ago I was in an on-again-off-again relationship that I just couldn't shake. After months of a variety of attempts of different types of therapies, I lucked into…
Over thirty years ago I was in an on-again-off-again relationship that I just couldn’t shake. After months of a variety of attempts of different types of therapies, I lucked into…
Lots of people discredit the Myers-Briggs as just a horoscope, but it’s significantly different and can be useful in recognizing that we’re all innately different kinds of people. This awareness…
When I was a kid, my folks said I was a little slow to warm up to people and sometimes needed a nudge to interact. Then, in grade 11, we…
I’ve been enjoying a podcast “This Jungian Life,” in which three Jungian analysts discuss various questions. This one in particular discusses the difference between sin and transgression, but then it…
Peterson was on Bill Maher last night. They’re both people that have some clever ideas, but also promote a few questionable notions in a way that’s slick enough to just…
“There’s violence to knowing the world isn’t what you thought. . . . Sometimes the world doesn’t make a lot of sense, but how we get through it is, we…
Some Russell quotations have been floating around lately, so I read The Conquest of Happiness, first published in 1930, and, boy, did I need this right now! The main ideas…