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This Jungian Life Podcast
Join us—Lisa, Deb, and Joseph—for sometimes irreverent but potentially life-changing conversations. Every Thursday, we explore culture, relationships, and depth psychology through the lens of Carl Jung. We devote a segment of each episode to analyzing a listener’s dream.
Episodes
This Jungian Life PodcastPeople Pleasing Is Making You Sick!
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! People Pleasing is a compulsive strategy that disavows your needs and surrenders your…
This Jungian Life Podcast[SUBSCRIBER BONUS] How Do the Negative Mother and Negative Animus Collude?
In this free edition of Jung Love, our subscriber bonus content, a Patron asks: "What are the dynamics in a woman's psyche of the collusion between the…
This Jungian Life PodcastIf Looks Could Kill: The Death Mother Archetype
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Some mothers attack life in their children. They crush appetite, joy, curiosity, and…
This Jungian Life PodcastProjection & Play: What Dolls Do to Psyche
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Dolls are human stand-ins that invite projection and play; children use them (including…
This Jungian Life PodcastMYTHS: Maps of the Collective Unconscious
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Think of myths as the dreams of an entire culture. Those stories reside in the collective…
This Jungian Life PodcastBULLYING: When Aggression Runs Wild
Join us for a free Zoom seminar on Dreams and Art on Saturday, September 13th, at 10:30 am EST. Register here. Bullying is about unmanaged aggression and…
This Jungian Life PodcastJung’s Inner Guides: The Secret of The Red Book
Join us for a free Zoom seminar on Dreams and Art on Saturday, September 13th, at 10:30 am EST. Register here. Jung’s Red Book is the primary research record…
This Jungian Life Podcast[SUBSCRIBER BONUS] How Do We Know When to 'Trust' Dreams?
In this free edition of Jung Love, our subscriber bonus content, a Patron asks: "Has there ever been a time in your life when a dream or series of dreams…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Creative Power of Inner Tension
You're invited to join us for a free Zoom seminar on Dreams and Art on Saturday, September 13th, at 10:30am ET. Register here. --- Holding the tension of the…
This Jungian Life PodcastIMAGINATION: Jung’s Path to Creativity and Inner Freedom
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Imagination is a central organ of human perception, as vital as the senses, through which we…
This Jungian Life PodcastSOLUTIO: The Alchemy of Letting Go
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Solutio is Psyche’s method to facilitate transformation: our rigid ego is softened in…
This Jungian Life PodcastJack and the Beanstalk: When Magic Calls Us Into Life
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Jack and the Beanstalk is a symbolic prescription for psychological growth, teaching us to…
This Jungian Life PodcastTHE QUICKENING: Discovering New Life Within
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Dreams about pregnancy and babies symbolize something new taking shape within us, like a…
This Jungian Life Podcast[SUBSCRIBER BONUS] How Can Understanding Symbols Help Us in Everyday Life?
In this free edition of Jung Love, our subscriber bonus content, a Patron asks: "I keep hearing and reading that symbols are healing and transformative for…
This Jungian Life PodcastWounds into Wisdom: Carl Jung’s Private Life
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Carl Jung’s discoveries are woven into our common understanding. Introvert/extravert, shadow…
This Jungian Life PodcastCalcinatio and the Alchemy of Honest Suffering
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The calcinatio stage in Jung's alchemy is about being put through inner fire—it's when the ego…
This Jungian Life PodcastDISCOVERING A NEW ARCHETYPE: The Buddhabrot Fractal Bridging Math, Myth, and the Collective Unconscious
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The Buddhabrot pattern springs from a simple algorithm: you take thousands of starting points…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Handless Maiden: A Tale to Heal the Wounded Feminine
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Everyone faces a moment when they are tempted to sacrifice their true self to chase wealth…
This Jungian Life PodcastTaming Your Inner Critic: Turn Self-Attack into Self-Awareness
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Our inner critic—that voice constantly tearing us down—can stem from difficult childhood…
This Jungian Life PodcastSHARK: Elemental Symbol of Our Will to Survive and Ravenous Hunger for Experience
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Primeval, silent, relentless—the shark announces itself as its fin slices the water. In that…
This Jungian Life PodcastMOTIVATION: What Happens When Your Get-Up-and-Go Leaves Without You?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Motivation rises from conscious and unconscious dynamics. We can reason with ourselves to take…
This Jungian Life PodcastSibling Rivalry: Archetypal Conflicts and Shadow Dynamics in Families
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Sibling rivalry can bruise and build in equal measure. On the hard side, the older child feels…
This Jungian Life PodcastMandala Archetype: How the Self Turns Chaos into Cosmos
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Mandalas are Psyche’s way of drawing a compass for you when life feels off-kilter. Jung noticed that…
This Jungian Life PodcastHouse Dreams: Schematics of Your Psychological Functioning
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! When a house turns up in a dream, it isn’t a staging background—it’s an architectural X-ray of your…
This Jungian Life PodcastReady for the Real Snow White? The True Tale of Envy, Murder, and Retribution
NEW: Come along to our free Shadow and Dreams Seminar on May 17Ever wonder why “Snow White” still hooks us after all the Disney glitter flakes off? This…
This Jungian Life PodcastForging the Upward Thread: Why Do We Create Religions?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!The religious function is part of who we are — as natural as needing food or love. It’s the inner…
This Jungian Life PodcastTrauma Can Be Rewritten: The Use of Art to Reimagine our Past and Grant Us New Life
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Viviane Silvera animated 30,000 of her hand-painted images to explore how traumatic memories are…
This Jungian Life PodcastHow to Develop Your Inner Guidance: Charting a Path Through the Current Chaos with Jung’s Insights
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Today you'll learn about inner guidance--the quiet, built-in compass that surfaces when we pause…
This Jungian Life Podcast[SUBSCRIBER-BONUS] How to work with Shadow Material.
In this free edition of Jung Love, our subscriber-bonus content, a Patron asks:"What do you do with shadow material? Is it enough to just become aware of your…
This Jungian Life PodcastShadow and Self in Adolescence: Navigating Rage, Love, and Individuation
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Think of adolescence as life’s built‑in boot camp: your body hits the gas, your mind scrambles to…
This Jungian Life PodcastFrom Worry to Insight: Making Sense of Uncertainty
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Worry arises because we can imagine countless possibilities, yet it often traps us in unproductive…
This Jungian Life PodcastDetective Archetype Decoded: Tracking Symbolic Clues
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Ever felt that irresistible urge to poke around for answers? That’s the detective archetype…
This Jungian Life PodcastAnalytical Patisserie: When Pastry Sparked Genius
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!In 1906, during Carl Jung’s formative visit to Vienna to confer with Sigmund Freud, a seemingly…
This Jungian Life PodcastUnlocking the Power of Your Shadow
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Connie Zweig, author and Jungian therapist, joins us to explore the next level of shadow-work. This…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Boundary Paradox: How Limits Create Freedom
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Boundaries define limits in relationships, work, and the psyche, balancing autonomy and connection…
This Jungian Life PodcastVISIONS: When the Mystery Breaks Through
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Carl Jung considered visions extraordinary intrusions of the unconscious into waking life, moments…
This Jungian Life PodcastDREAM TELEPATHY: Is it real?
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Join us this week to explore the results of our grand experiment in dream telepathy. A few weeks…
This Jungian Life PodcastSHADOWLAND: Self-Harm Cults – The Story of Sarah
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! *Content warning: contains references to sexual abuse, animal cruelty, self-harm, and cult…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Symbolism of Travel Inner and Outer
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Travel speaks to something far deeper in us than simply going from one place to another; it’s a…
This Jungian Life PodcastFACING REJECTION
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Facing Rejection forces us to confront what we fear losing—belonging, recognition, identity…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Archetypal Brain: Jung from an Evolutionary Perspective
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!With Deb and Joe out this week, Lisa speaks with Gary Clark, a visiting research fellow at the…
This Jungian Life PodcastChanging the Foundation of Personality: the Secret Power of Attitudes
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Transformation isn’t about muscling through change—it’s about loosening the grip on rigid…
This Jungian Life PodcastWhat Remains When All Is Taken: Standing in the LA Fires
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Fire strips everything away, leaving only what truly matters. In the wake of the Los Angeles…
This Jungian Life PodcastFeet, Fashion, and Freedom: Shoes as Symbols of Identity
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!What do the choices we make about the things we carry and wear reveal about who we are and the…
This Jungian Life PodcastAnalyzing Our Childhood Dreams
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!What do our earliest dreams reveal about the hidden forces shaping our lives?Childhood dreams…
This Jungian Life PodcastThe Psychology of Meaning: Keys to Authentic Living
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! What gives life meaning and guides us through times of emptiness and uncertainty?The Psychology of…
This Jungian Life Podcast5 of the Best Christmas Episodes to Binge This Holiday Season
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!'Tis the season to join Joseph, Lisa, and Deb in a Jungian romp through the holiday in all its complex…
This Jungian Life PodcastTHE STAR: Archetype of Revelation
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! We have looked to the stars to navigate our ships across night-shrouded seas. We have studied the…
This Jungian Life PodcastDREAM WISE: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams ~ a live event
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!Dream Wise: Unlocking the Meaning of Your Dreams is a practical guide to interpreting your dreams…
This Jungian Life PodcastStoicism and Jungian Psychology: A Recipe for Resilience
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! Stoicism and Jungian psychology are a natural fit. The first invigorates and organizes the…
This Jungian Life PodcastFinding Our Way Back: Healing From Self-Betrayal
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them! When we betray ourselves, we abandon our values, needs, or truths to gain approval or avoid…
This Jungian Life PodcastEcstatic Transformation: Activating the Archetype of Radical Joy
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!What does it mean to depose the ego and encounter the dismantling joy of the Self? Ecstatic…
This Jungian Life PodcastWedding Dreams: Symbols of Sacred Union and Inner Transformation
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!How does one reconcile and integrate opposing forces within to achieve wholeness?Wedding dreams…
This Jungian Life PodcastDECISION ARCHETYPE: The Power of Sacrificing Options
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!How do we navigate the forces within us to make choices that reflect our authentic nature?Every…
This Jungian Life PodcastSATANIC PANIC: The Archetypal Slanderer and False Memory Syndrome
What drives us to seek meaning in the shadows, and how do we discern the real from the imagined when fear and faith converge? The rise of the Satanic Panic in…
This Jungian Life PodcastJung and Gnosticism: Discovering a Universe Of Whole-Making
What is the ultimate path to inner wholeness, and how do we reconcile the tension between the spiritual and material aspects of our existence?Jung’s…
This Jungian Life PodcastDOG SYMBOLISM IN DREAMS: companions, protectors, and guides of souls
How does the dream maker help us when we’re lost and alone in the wilderness of our lives?We love dogs, and they love us. For millennia, they have held deep…
This Jungian Life PodcastJUNGIAN ALCHEMY: the secret of inner transformation
Do you need a map to chart a massive inner transformation?Jungian alchemy provides a symbolic framework for individuation, connecting ancient alchemical…
This Jungian Life PodcastDRAGON: The Archetypal Monster and Ally Within
Across the globe and through the ages, dragons lurk in our myths and dreams, haunting us as primal forces of terror and transformation. Found in almost every…
This Jungian Life PodcastSTUCK IN THE COMFORT ZONE: When Wrong Feels Right, and Right Feels Wrong
Too often, we cling to what feels familiar, even when it harms us or others. We shy away from what’s better because it feels odd or awkward.Understanding the…