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Between Childrens' and Parents' Needs: the Generational Anxiety Sandwich

In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of "taboo" about it.  For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years.  There are...

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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?

The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year:    I doubt that questions get much more real than those in...

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Individual Therapy, Women, Men & Marilyn Monroe

 It’s very striking how the figure of Marilyn Monroe sometimes comes up in individual therapy. Few people have gripped the imagination of popular culture as she has.  An iconic and fateful figure for...

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The Symbolic Power of Home, Part 1: Michaelle Jean

I think that many Canadians’ imagination and empathy has been caught by news stories of our Governor General, Michaelle Jean, who has been in the news here quite a bit this week. Her Excellency is...

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Welcome to the New Home of “Vibrant Jung Thing!”

Dear Readers, With some great help, I’ve finally been able to move my blog onto my main website, which is something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time.  I hope that you will continue...

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Crisis

  Sometimes we can be overtaken by things that happen in the psyche.  Such events can leave a person in a very vulnerable place struggling with intense anxiety, depression or stress.  Often these...

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Anxiety, Stress and Decisions

A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life.  Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the...

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Work and the Heart

An article from the Globe and Mail of 12 May 2010 , “Working regular overtime linked to increased heart attack risk” raises some very serious questions about the way that we’re living now:...

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Trust and Betrayal

In my recent blog post on “Crisis“, I indicated that one of the gravest things that can happen to people is the experience of betrayal in those close relationships with others whom they trust deeply,...

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G20 Toronto: What the Heck Just Happened?

On June 26 and 27, the leaders of the G20 nations and numerous other nations met in downtown Toronto.  For many living in this area, what happened in the course of those two days has something of the...

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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, “Up In the Air”

Make no mistake, moving is living.  -Ryan Bingham   “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.  Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time...

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Does February Bring Any GIfts?

 “April is the cruelest month” wrote the poet T.S. Eliot.  When I first read that line as a teenager, my thought was, “Obviously, this poet wasn’t a Canadian!” Anyone who has consistently lived...

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Identity and Anxiety in the Film, “Up In the Air”

Make no mistake, moving is living.  -Ryan Bingham   “Up in the Air”, directed by Jason Reitman, stars George Clooney, Vera Farmiga and Anna Kendrick.  Clooney’s character Ryan Bingham is a full-time...

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Does February Bring Any GIfts?

 “April is the cruelest month” wrote the poet T.S. Eliot.  When I first read that line as a teenager, my thought was, “Obviously, this poet wasn’t a Canadian!” Anyone who has consistently lived...

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Between Childrens’ and Parents’ Needs: the Generational Anxiety Sandwich

  In this post, I would like to write about something that may have a sense of “taboo” about it. For many of us in the present day world, a powerful struggle goes on in our middle years.  There are...

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Here in the Middle Years of Life: Is That All There Is?

The great jazz artist Peggy Lee performed the following beautiful, highly disturbing yet haunting song in 1969, at midlife, in her 50th year: I doubt that questions get much more real than those in...

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Individual Therapy, Women, Men & Marilyn Monroe

 It’s very striking how the figure of Marilyn Monroe sometimes comes up in individual therapy. Few people have gripped the imagination of popular culture as she has.  An iconic and fateful figure for...

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Welcome to the New Home of “Vibrant Jung Thing!”

Dear Readers, With some great help, I’ve finally been able to move my blog onto my main website, which is something that I have been wanting to do for a very long time.  I hope that you will continue...

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Crisis

  Sometimes we can be overtaken by things that happen in the psyche.  Such events can leave a person in a very vulnerable place struggling with intense anxiety, depression or stress.  Often these...

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Anxiety, Stress and Decisions

A great deal of stress and anxiety in peoples’ lives is associated with making major decisions that deeply effect personal life.  Very often, people come into therapy because they are hung on the...

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