Every month I make time to write a thank you to someone (at least one!) It’s an opportunity to sit for a few minutes and think about where I want to express gratitude. Sometimes it’s someone in my life now, and sometimes it’s someone who helped me in my past. Last night I read an … Read more
A series of blog posts derived from randomly chosen words as titles. Today is… unfolding exactly as it should, so said the new age mystic who really had no clue what the day was going to bring. Instead, she was staring into a large crystal bowl which she had just sat in the same room … Read more
Back in May 2013 I wrote: “it’s impossible to be a blogger without being a blagger” and I read that again earlier today. It started me thinking about the place of ego in a blog. And that sent me off down an attention rabbit hole, where I went looking for the books by Daryl Sharp … Read more
So, my last blog post was called “Emulating Young” and was about the inspiration I draw from the work of Neil Young. Anyone who knows me will also know that I have been massively influenced by the work of psychologist Carl Jung. Jung was one of the three pioneers of early psychology (alongside Freud and … Read more
That moment when we realise something is not as it seemed for every living second of our lives before then. And in that shift comes a completely different way to view reality. Up to that moment, everything made sense because of this founding principle by which we lived. Then, when the light shines through, we … Read more
We get out of life what we put into it, (so we are told). From experience, I know that I am happiest when I am focused on others rather than on my own needs. We spend childhood and early adulthood searching for happiness. We look for it in things, in possessions, in others, in experiences … Read more
The concept of individuation was first brought to my attention when reading the work of Carl Jung. I would have been in my early thirties when I started exploring this idea; that stage in life when I was struggling with new identities like parenthood and trying to figure out what I was here on the planet to … Read more
After two days of posts about beauty, that made me curious to see if I could find a poem which would keep the theme going. The poem I chose is from “the alice conversations” which I wrote back in 2004. It is a collection of poems about the archetype of the anima (the inner feminine … Read more
I first became interested in Jung when a friend at university, Helen Scholes (now Chatterton – a textile maker living in Liverpool), bought me “Memories, Dreams and Reflections” for my birthday. This was Jung’s memoir written towards the end of his life. I was instantly captivated by the things he wrote about. Many years later … Read more
October is the month of quick ideas. I have been working with the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) for a number of years now. It featured in my PhD thesis, for example. And in my day job, we used MBTI as a team building tool last year. There are many applications of this tool, and … Read more