Category: Depth Psychology & Jungian Work
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What Is a Complex? Jung’s Complex Theory Explained
Have you ever had a reaction that felt bigger than the moment called for? Maybe someone offered mild feedback and suddenly you felt defensive, embarrassed, or angry in a way that surprised even you. Maybe you left a conversation wondering why you sounded like a younger version of yourself —…
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Jungian Depth Psychology: A Working Hypothesis for the Mystery of Being Human
There’s something quietly relieving about admitting that we don’t actually understand the psyche. Not fully. Not in a way we can measure or dissect or point to on a scan. We can measure behaviour. We can track thoughts. We can identify nervous system states. Those frameworks matter — they help…
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Individuation vs. Optimization: Late-Winter Reflections on Becoming a Self
There is a particular kind of sadness I feel when I hear the word optimization. Not irritation. Not anger, at least not first. Sadness. Because optimization is built on a quiet lie: that who you are, right now, is not enough. That you must tighten, hack, upgrade, or correct yourself…
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Becoming More Fully Yourself: Depth Work, the Unconscious, and the Path of Individuation
There is a stage of therapy where symptom relief is no longer the main question. You may already understand your patterns. You may know your attachment style, your coping strategies, your trauma history. And yet something deeper is stirring. A question like: Who am I, beneath adaptation? What is mine…
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Shadow Work: Befriending What We’ve Buried
Every one of us carries parts of ourselves we hide, deny, or push down. These are the pieces we learned early on were “too much,” “not enough,” or simply “not acceptable.” They don’t disappear — they live underground, shaping how we move through the world. Carl Jung called this realm…
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Archetypal Psychology: The Stories Living You (and How to Work With Them)
We don’t just tell stories. Stories tell us. They shape how we see ourselves. What we believe we’re capable of. What roles we slip into without even realizing it. The underdog. The caretaker. The rebel. The one who keeps it all together—until they can’t. If you’ve ever felt like you’re…
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An Overview of Depth Psychology & Jungian-Inspired Techniques
I’ve always had a complicated fondness for Carl Jung. He feels like a wise—and deeply flawed—ancestor. Someone who helped carve out space for imagination, myth, symbolism, and meaning in psychology… and someone whose work also carries assumptions that deserve to be questioned, updated, and reworked. Depth psychology, as I understand…