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jungian concepts


keep your projections to yourself: encountering jung's shadow in group fitness
Maybe a yoga class is the last place you think you'll be running into what Jung called "the shadow." If you've taken a group fitness class in your life, you might think back and recall what you thought or felt about that instructor/teacher. Or you might think about how it seemed that others treated that person. Were they treated as a real person, or as an idealized version of what others think or feel they should be? It's likely that at least some of the class participants (i

Laura Beth Wenger
May 6, 20243 min read
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training a healthy ego for individuation
Show of hands: how many of us think of the ego as a "bad thing"-- something we should be trying to get rid of? ππΌββοΈ It's not uncommon...

Laura Beth Wenger
Jul 10, 20234 min read
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they handed me a french horn: (it's never too late to be who you might have been)
βThere is an inner wholeness that presses its still unfilled claims upon us.β Emma Jung My one and only childhood encounter with musical...

Laura Beth Wenger
Jul 1, 20213 min read
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