The need to belong is as intrinsic to human nature as the need for food, touch, clothing, and shelter. We belong to families, communities, ideas, and ideals, yet must also separate from them in service to our own individuation.
Relationships
CHRONIC ANGER: trapped in resentment
Like fire in a wood-burning stove, resentment burns long and hot: bitterness, frustration, and hostility. The fires of resentment are lit when we feel needy and vulnerable and feel wronged and rejected. This old human story is told in the biblical tale of brothers Cain and Abel.
SPIDER PARENTS: why can’t I just move out?
The spider is a symbol of generative and destructive capabilities. As creator, spider spins the sustaining web of life. As predator, spider’s sticky web is an inescapable trap. Parents weave webs of familial ties, cultural norms, and generational patterns that contain—or restrain–their children. Emotional strings of attachment or enmeshment affect how—or if—a young adult child is released into the world.
CURIOSITY: the inner engine of change
We need to be curious about curiosity: what are we enacting–and why? In the unrestrained theater of our dreams even the most disallowed outer-world scenarios are played out.
Pets: A Lived Relationship with Soul
Pets let us be tender, elicit nurturing, and help heal trauma through secure attachment. Our creatures keep our secrets.
Episode 121 — Not Alone: Finding the Inner Companion
Every companion is an image of the inner Other, and is present whenever gifts of wisdom, care and guidance are received.
Episode 96 – Polyamory: Navigating the Complexities of the Heart
Polyamory, a current phenomenon, endorses open relationships with multiple lovers. The term means many loves, and polyamory strives to legitimize the benefits of non-monogamous romance and sexuality among adults.
Episode 89 – Sibling Complexes
Siblings are embedded in the human psyche as they are in life. Even if one lacks siblings, there is ready access to them through friends, fairy tales, myths, and scripture.
Episode 88 – Partings & Farewells
Partings connote a finality of farewell that signifies completion of a relationship. We may part from a stage of life, depart from home or college, or say farewell to a person, process or project. Partings signify the end of a story that has been told and reached conclusion. The Japanese tale of Princess Moonbeam illustrates the importance of accepting a necessary ending: those who could not do so were turned into statues, fixed in eternal stasis.
Episode 86 – Splitting, Polarization & Conflict
It happens all the time: people and problems split into opposing camps, whether the conflict is internal, between partners, in a family or—as we know all too well—between political parties.
Episode 81 – Empathy
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Episode 78 – Infertility: when the mother archetype fails to constellate
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