Dose of Depth: Recent Episodes
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
This is Dose of Depth podcast. I’m your host, Deborah Lukovich, and I invite you to be curious about your unique experience of being human. In this podcast, we’ll explore the deeper meaning of ordinary life experiences through conversation, stories, and education. You might have a serious ah-ha moment, or you might be amused by the movie your life seems to be imitating, or you might just be entertained by one of my awkward stories. I’m hoping you’ll become more aware of those moments when a deeper part of you is prompting you to see things differently and maybe even go a new direction. So, let’s get started. Deborah
What if patriarchy isn't simply a social system... but a psychological wound that lives within all of us?
In this episode, I explore the hidden ways patriarchal conditioning shapes our identities, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and sense of self. Drawing from my own journey and themes from my memoir When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling, I discuss why healing isn't about blaming men or women. It's about integrating the parts of ourselves that have been split apart.
I also reflect on a conversation with William Diplock of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) about men's experience of the patriarchal wound and why compassion for both the feminine and masculine is essential for deeper relationships and genuine transformation.
Link to interview: https://doseofdepth.buzzsprout.com/1917216/episodes/15120608-men-s-patriarchal-wound-a-chat-w-william-diplock-psychotherapist-trainer-for-gender-equity-reconciliation-international-geri
Link to blog post: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/post/the-hidden-impact-how-does-patriarchy-harm-men-too
Link to my chat with black veteran Mark Ross, host of Speak Your Truth podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaw2XlCxMUs&t=2115s
If you've ever felt caught between strength and vulnerability, achievement and authenticity, sexuality and spirituality, this episode may offer a new perspective.
Topics include:
• the patriarchal wound in women and men
• Carl Jung and depth psychology
• sexuality and spirituality
• masculine and feminine integration
• healing relationships
• individuation and psychological growth
• When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling
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Most leadership development focuses on strategy, communication, and performance. While these skills matter, many leadership challenges persist because the real issue is operating beneath the surface.
In this video, I explore leadership through a depth psychology lens:
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I explain why self-knowledge is one of a leader's greatest advantages.
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We examine the hidden dynamics that influence relationships, decision-making, team performance, and organizational culture, including unconscious assumptions, emotional reactions, projection, and communication patterns.
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I introduce practical frameworks I use when coaching leaders and facilitating teams, including the Four Conversations model, the 3P's framework (Purpose, Projection, and Permanence), and a process for approaching difficult conversations with greater clarity and intention.
Whether you lead a nonprofit, business, community initiative, or team, understanding what is happening beneath the surface can help you navigate challenges more effectively and create greater alignment, trust, and impact.
If you're a leader, a leadership team, a nonprofit, or an organization facing a challenge that seems resistant to traditional solutions, the next step may not be a new strategy. It may be a deeper understanding of what is happening beneath the surface. To learn more about executive coaching, leadership team facilitation, or organizational discovery sessions, visit deborahlukovich.com.
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P.S. Click here to listen to my video about toxic work cultures.
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What if the body isn’t a problem to fix, but a message to understand? In this conversation, Dr. Deborah Lukovich sits down with clinical psychologist Dr. Gretchen Ames to explore the body through a depth psychology lens—where symptoms are not isolated issues, but expressions of the whole person shaped by culture, history, and the unconscious.
Some of the books mentioned during our chat:
Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung: https://bookshop.org/p/books/memories-dreams-reflections-carl-g-jung/3fbd24905b79758c?ean=9780679723950&next=t
Sacred Prostitute, Nancy Qualls Corbett: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-sacred-prostitute-eternal-aspect-of-the-feminine-studies-in-jungian-psychology-by-jungian-analysts-vol-32_nancy-qualls-corbett/278770/?resultid=7aa25fb5-dfb9-438f-a049-d188764eee9d#edition=3521189&idiq=4807607
Fearing the Black Body, Sabrina Springs: https://bookshop.org/p/books/fearing-the-black-body-the-racial-origins-of-fat-phobia-sabrina-strings/1b837c89155348be?ean=9781479886753&next=t
Addiction to Perfection: The Still Ravished Bride, Marion Woodman:https://innercitybooks.net/bookshop/author/marion-woodman/addiction-to-perfection/
https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-fat-lady-sings-a-psychological-exploration-of-the-cultural-fat-complex-and-its-effects-cheryl-fuller/7d5bf75535a4f2d5?ean=9781782204978&next=t
Segment 1 – Medicalization vs. Meaning
We begin with a critique of modern psychology’s focus on diagnosis and symptom reduction, and revisit Jung’s idea that every symptom must be understood within the context of the whole person—not pathologized in isolation.
Segment 2 – Chaos, Corruption, and Inner Wisdom
In a time of cultural upheaval, we explore how failing systems disconnect people from their inner authority, creating fear, dependency, and a loss of trust in one’s own instincts—and why this breakdown may also signal transformation.
Segment 3 – The Body as a Cultural Symbol
Drawing on historical and cultural analysis, we unpack how body ideals were constructed—who benefits from them, and how race, gender, and power shaped what is considered “acceptable.”
Segment 4 – Shame, Morality, and Capitalism
Segment 5 – The Problem with Individual Blame
Segment 6 – The Psychological Impact of Weight Loss
Segment 7 – The Repressed Feminine and the Body
Segment 8 – A New Lens for Healing
This conversation invites a radical shift: from fixing the body to understanding it, from blaming the individual to examining the systems we live in, and from fear to a deeper relationship with inner wisdom.
Are you ready for depth psychology coaching? Learn more here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
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Most conversations about toxic workplaces focus on what’s happening out there—bad leadership, poor communication, unhealthy culture.
But what if that’s only half the story?
In this episode, I explore:
- What makes a workplace “toxic” (and how it impacts your mental health)
- How "toxic" shows up differently in nonprofit and corporate environments
- How stress and uncertainty trigger what's right below the surface
- Why leaders are often unequipped to handle this level of complexity
Drawing on depth psychology and neuroscience, I break down:
- The four conversations happening in every interaction
- How childhood patterns shape emotional reactions at work
- The role of the reticular activating system in reinforcing perceived threats
- What complexes are—and how they quietly run the show
Most importantly, I walk you through a practical process to:
- Separate facts from emotional reactions
- Trace intense responses back to their origin
- Work with emotions in the body
- Shift your internal state—and change how others respond to you
This isn’t about excusing harmful behavior.
It’s about reclaiming your power.
Because, as C.G. Jung suggested, the fate of the collective depends on the self-reflecting individual.
If you’re navigating a difficult work environment, this episode offers a different kind of doorway—one that leads inward.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Click here to learn how to deal with difficult people and my communication tool: https://doseofdepth.buzzsprout.com/1917216/episodes/17729530-dealing-with-difficult-people-a-tool-for-scary-conversations
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Have you ever felt like the version of you that once worked… no longer does?
Midlife unraveling rarely announces itself. It begins quietly, with a growing sense that something is off, even when your life still looks “successful” from the outside.
The traits and patterns that once helped you navigate the world can start working against you. And instead of changing, many of us double down on what we’ve always done.
So what’s really happening beneath the surface?
In depth psychology, Carl Jung described parental complexes — unconscious patterns formed in childhood through our earliest relationships. These patterns shape how we respond to life, often without us realizing it, until they begin to limit our growth.
Midlife unraveling is not a breakdown.
It’s a turning point.
A call to return to parts of yourself that were set aside long ago.
In this episode, I share reflections from Chapter 3 of my memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling, and explore how mixed messages from childhood can create a kind of self-imposed glass ceiling later in life.
If you’ve been feeling stuck, restless, or unsure why your old ways of being no longer fit, this episode offers a deeper lens into what may be unfolding.
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- Purchase my memoir, When Sex Meets God: https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-sex-meets-god-a-midlife-unraveling-deborah-lukovich/4cbce8637457c444?ean=9798349679292&next=t
- Subscribe to my website for reflections, teachings, and upcoming offerings: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
- Explore working with me as a depth psychology coach if you’re navigating a transition, unraveling, or inner calling that wants your attention. Schedule a free exploratory chat: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/services
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What are your earliest childhood memories?
Often, there's an invisible thread running through our lives, connecting various life events in ways we could never imagine at the time.
Revisiting your earliest childhood memories can inspire appreciation for decisions you made that didn't make sense to others or even yourself at the time.
In this brief episode, I share a pair of early childhood memories that helped explain my meandering approach to career decisions (from Chapter 2 of my memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling).
Some might have labeled me a hacker as I went from financial planning to nonprofit fundraising to consulting, all the while engaged in community activism on the side.
While suffering through my midlife unraveling, I discovered my need to avoid becoming trapped, especially in other people's ideas about me.
An instinct for freedom was a primary driver of my life.
✨ If this resonates:
- Purchase my memoir, When Sex Meets God: https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-sex-meets-god-a-midlife-unraveling-deborah-lukovich/4cbce8637457c444?ean=9798349679292&next=t
- Subscribe to my website for reflections, teachings, and upcoming offerings: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
- Explore working with me as a depth psychology coach if you’re navigating a transition, unraveling, or inner calling that wants your attention. Schedule a free exploratory chat: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/services
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Ever find yourself attracted to someone you shouldn’t be attracted to
especially when you’re already in a relationship?
What if that attraction isn’t a threat…but a message?
In this short video, I explore how attraction often points to something your unconscious is asking you to develop, reclaim, or live more fully. Instead of acting on attraction or suppressing it, I suggest lingering with it and listening for what wants to be known.
I share personal examples of being intensely drawn to people who were unavailable and how, once I understood what I was really attracted to, their literal pull dissolved. What remained was desire for essence: creativity, authority, justice, devotion to purpose.
When we pursue those qualities in our own lives, attraction often transforms.
🔗 Learn more through my 3P’s Framework for uncovering the hidden meaning of attraction: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/post/still-stewing-about-the-last-fight-with-your-romantic-partner
📖 Read my article: When Is Sexual Attraction Not About Sex?: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/post/when-is-sexual-attraction-not-about-sex
📘 My memoir brings these ideas to life through lived experience. Learn more here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/whensexmeetsgod
Attraction doesn’t always ask for action.
Sometimes it asks for integration.
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In this episode, I’m joined by one of my coaching clients who shares her experience of depth psychology coaching and how it changed the way she sees herself and her life.
We talk about dreams, active imagination, creative expression, and how inner work supported her in writing and performing a play that received standing ovations. She also shares how learning to advocate for herself through a difficult conversation became a turning point in her confidence and sense of agency.
This is a conversation about listening inward, trusting what wants to emerge, and discovering that inner work can lead to very real changes in how we live, create, and speak.
Are you ready for depth psychology coaching? Schedule a free exploratory chat here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/services
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Who gets to decide what’s right for you?
We often hear the phrase “You are the highest authority for your own life,” but that raises a deeper question: who is the “you” that can actually be trusted?
In this episode, I reflect on a talk by Alan Watts, in which he suggested that our five senses are always perceiving the past, while intuition, faith, and belief shape the future. Much of what guides us lives below conscious awareness, quietly influencing our choices, desires, and longings.
I explore how the body itself can become a trustworthy guide; not as something to control or override, but as a living intelligence that sometimes leads us toward truth and sometimes into experiences that are essential to our unfolding.
To bring this idea into lived experience, I read from Chapter 21 of my memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling, and reflect on the chapters that follow. I share how a series of younger men became unwitting sacred teachers, drawing me into a deeper, more honest relationship with my body, my sexuality, and my soul.
This conversation is an invitation to question inherited beliefs, listen more closely to your embodied wisdom, and consider what might be asking to emerge in your own life.
✨ If this resonates:
- Purchase my memoir, When Sex Meets God: https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-sex-meets-god-a-midlife-unraveling-deborah-lukovich/4cbce8637457c444?ean=9798349679292&next=t
- Subscribe to my website for reflections, teachings, and upcoming offerings: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
- Explore working with me as a depth psychology coach if you’re navigating a transition, unraveling, or inner calling that wants your attention. Schedule a free exploratory chat: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/services
Trust begins with listening.
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Original blog post: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/post/what-does-it-mean-to-be-sovereign-the-sigma-female
What does it actually mean to be sovereign, and why might sovereign women be exactly what men need right now?
In this episode, I read my blog post, which explores the rise of the Sigma female and why she may be less a social trend and more an archetypal correction.
I share my fascination with the growing online discourse around this “new kind of woman” and trace her roots to Artemis, the Greek goddess of the hunt, the moon, and protector of women and girls. Like Artemis, the sovereign woman is already whole. She does not organize her life around being chosen, approved of, or validated by men. And paradoxically, this is precisely what makes her transformative in a relationship.
I explore how the Sigma female disrupts patriarchal validation systems that reward men for performance, dominance, status, and external achievement rather than inner authority. When women overadapt to men by shrinking, pleasing, or carrying emotional labor that isn’t theirs, men are not strengthened by it. They are weakened. Their development stalls. Their relationship to their own soul atrophies.
The sovereign woman refuses this dynamic. She does not rescue men from themselves. Instead, her presence quietly yet powerfully confronts them with a choice: to remain dependent on external validation or to begin the inward journey toward self-authority.
I imagine a dialogue between a Sigma female and a man whose unconscious is ready. A man who no longer needs a woman to uphold his identity, regulate his emotions, or confirm his worth. In this way, the sovereign woman becomes a liberating force, not by leading men, but by no longer leading for them.
I also share my own evolution toward sovereignty and close with questions that reach beyond gender politics:
Do women truly want sovereignty if it means no longer being needed in the old ways?
And are men ready for a form of sovereignty that is not about dominance, control, or hierarchy, but about inner grounding and soul-based strength?
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In Chapters 11–13 of my memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling, the story shifts from what I thought was happening to what my body already knew.
Long before my conscious mind was ready to face change, my body was offering clues—subtle signals, sensations, and disruptions that pointed toward an impending midlife unraveling. Rather than listening, I resisted. I stayed focused on what I thought should be happening, while something deeper was trying to emerge into consciousness.
Although the memoir is written as a personal story, it naturally follows Carl Jung’s theory of individuation. In this video, I bring the Jungian psychology that lives beneath the narrative into the foreground, exploring how the body often becomes the first messenger of the psyche’s need for transformation.
This video is for anyone who has:
- Ignored bodily signals they didn’t understand
- Felt “off” without knowing why
- Experienced physical or emotional cues before a major life shift
- Wondered how individuation shows up in real life, not just theory
Your body is not betraying you.
It may be inviting you into the next phase of becoming.
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To learn more about why I wrote this story, the types of readers that will enjoy it, and to subscribe so you have access to a series of videos I'm doing about the depth psychology theories beneath the story, go here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/whensexmeetsgod
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Many people dismiss dream images as random, strange, or meaningless.
But in depth psychology, nothing in a dream appears by accident.
In this video, I share two dreams I had on New Year’s Eve and walk you through how I worked with the images, one by one. Rather than interpreting the dreams as a whole, I explored the individual symbols, followed my personal associations, and noticed what each image was asking me to see.
What emerged wasn’t prediction or fantasy, but confirmation. The dreams reflected that I was on the right path and invited a deeper awareness of how I’m meant to use my gifts.
This video offers a practical glimpse into how seemingly ordinary or fragmented dream images can become doorways to insight, clarity, and inner guidance, especially during moments of transition.
If you’ve ever wondered whether your dreams mean anything, or how to work with them without a dream dictionary, this is for you.
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As the new year approaches, many of us rush to set goals, make plans, and envision what’s next. But real transformation doesn’t begin with striving—it begins with release.
In this episode, What Must Die Before the New Year Can Begin, I explore the often-overlooked truth that something within us must end before something new can emerge. We can’t become the person who has achieved our goals without allowing an old version of ourselves to fall away.
I share a deeply personal story from ten years ago—listening to Amy Grant’s Mary’s Song and experiencing a soul-shifting moment that taught me to trust what was happening inside me. I also reflect on a recent Christmas night of illness, where leaning into physical pain felt like a sacred shedding, much like a snake releasing its skin.
This episode is an invitation to pause, listen inward, and recognize the difference between trusting the process and knowing it. Before you plan the year, ask yourself: what must be released so the new can truly begin?
Enjoy!
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First, my memoir is available! Read views and purchase my crazy story here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Sex-Meets-God-Unraveling/dp/B0FY1WSSJZ
or at Bookshop.org:https://bookshop.org/p/books/when-sex-meets-god-a-midlife-unraveling-deborah-lukovich/4cbce8637457c444?ean=9798349679292&next=t.
Are you nervous about AI? It may not surprise you to know that AI is currently being used for unethical and illegal purposes. We are in a literal battle for the human soul as some powerful forces seek to merge technology with humans in a way that separates humans from their own connection to consciousness and their innate divine nature.
In this episode, I bring back my brainy, misfit friend, Sher Griffin, an Autistic, neuroqueer writer and educator. Sher holds a Master’s in Transformative Social Change with an emphasis on Peace and Justice studies and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University, exploring the intersection of trauma, autism, and ecological belonging.
Sher is also the author of Cognitive Ecology: Mapping Your Mind for Self-Understanding and the founder of The Compassion Collective.
Follow Sher on Substack: https://substack.com/@thecognitiveecologist?utm_source=global-search
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My memoir is available! Read views and purchase my crazy story here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Sex-Meets-God-Unraveling/dp/B0FY1WSSJZ
Have you ever wondered what's really happening during an ah-ha! moment?
In this video, I talk about C.G. Jung's concept of the transcendent third. When you can hold the tension between what feels like opposing ideas or forces, eventually, a reconciliation between the two will happen.
This is exactly what's happening during an ah-ha! moment.
But what do you do with the insight? Sometimes, the initial liberation is overcome by a kind of buyer's remorse.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy a little instruction along with my reading of a passage from Chapter 6: The Clash of Convention and Liberation.
Enjoy and please share with others.
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To learn more about why I wrote this story, the types of readers that will enjoy it, and to subscribe so you have access to a series of videos I'm doing about the depth psychology theories beneath the story, go here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
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Are the holidays stressful, sad, joyous, exhausting, overstimulating, or a combination of all of these?
In this video, I teach you how to apply four depth psychology concepts to have a more joyous holiday experience this year:
(1) The four conversations happening between you and other people;
(2) Recognizing projection in yourself and others;
(3) Finding the complex behind the projection; and
(4) Psychological type.
To learn more, visit http://deborahlukovich.com/ to access free resources or book a holiday session with me.
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P.S. My memoir is available! Read views and purchase my crazy story here: https://www.amazon.com/When-Sex-Meets-God-Unraveling/dp/B0FY1WSSJZ
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Did you come of age in the 1980s? It was a time of great progress for women, but also of violent rhetoric against women's desire for independence.
This included sexual freedom, too.
In this video, I share a little about Chapter 4: I Want Sex, including the depth psychology aspect beneath the surface of my story, which is written as a novel.
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Can you remember a time when your life was going great, but you noticed this little twinge of discontent?
Maybe you ignored it, or perhaps you suddenly became interested in meditation or yoga.
In this video, I share a little about Chapter 1: Wheel Broken, including the depth psychology aspect beneath the surface of my story, which is written as a novel.
Enjoy and please share with others.
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To learn more about why I wrote this story, the types of readers that will enjoy it, and to subscribe so you have access to a series of videos I'm doing about the depth psychology theories beneath the story, go here: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
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In this video, I demonstrate how to explore and interpret strange and symbolic dreams using a depth psychology approach.
This dream included a mattress, a dead mouse, multiple dead insects, and even my father — and the meaning behind these symbols genuinely surprised me.
If you’re curious about how to find personal meaning in your own dreams, this step-by-step example will help you see how images from the unconscious can reveal what your psyche is working through.
Listen to learn (or watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrbyUBYbKAU):
– How to find all the possible images to explore
– Why a subtle dynamic in a dream often holds the key to a new insight
– How dreams connect to ancestral and collective meaning
My mission is to help you deepen your connection to the unconscious and uncover the hidden messages that shape your life.
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In this episode, I’m excited to talk with Branden Singletary, an artist and philosopher whose creative expression seeks to highlight a connection between cosmos and human cognition.
Branden has produced a short film, an art book, and a wide array of other illustrations for the purpose of expanding deeper and farther in his quest to refine and eventually present a detailed map of patterns between worldviews, aesthetic preferences, cognitive styles, and ways of creation to benefit people who desire to live a life of boundless creativity, wonder, and awe.
Check out Branden's creative expressions here: https://nexumorphic.carrd.co/
To view Branden's short film on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeYHdxD8s98
To view the image that we discussed: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18LZg1F5ZZr0iC-FPuIrG3LXRdDKvwYyf
Philosophy is about asking the big questions and using reason to critique our own methods and assumptions of exploring those questions. A critical mind is a powerful thing, and right now it’s good to remember why Socrates was put to death: for teaching young people to engage in critical inquiry.
Now is a good time to ask ourselves the big questions, and I think my chat with Branden might help you get started.
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In this episode, I spend time describing the different types of readers that might enjoy my memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling.
It's coming in late OCTOBER. Be sure to subscribe to my website to get updates: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/
The reader groups are:
1 - Readers who enjoy stories about personal transformation (midlife unraveling, identity crisis, etc.)
2 - Women who came of age in the 1980s, and younger women, will recognize the current version of the same push and pull between women's advancement in the world and the sometimes violent backlash against it.
3 - Men who appreciate and understand that there is a masculine and feminine inside all of us.
4 - Readers drawn to the intertwining nature of sexuality and spirituality.
5 - Readers who are curious about how desire, creativity, and purpose can come alive through transformative midlife experiences.
6 - People who are fascinated by Jungian ideas. Therapists, coaches, and wellness practitioners may also see this book as a resource to recommend to clients who are navigating major life transitions or an unraveling.
Enjoy and pass along to others.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I share the story of why I decided to title my memoir When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling.
My emotions throughout the past five years have ranged from confidence in the meaningful nature of my experience to deep insecurity about my ability to communicate it.
My experience blew my mind, and my goal in sharing my story is to encourage others to follow the whispers of their unconscious, especially if doing so requires going against the grain in some way.
Enjoy some backstory, get some depth psychology perspective, and learn that while my story is personal, the underlying themes and journey are universal. Many people have had their own version of my story.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You can support the Dose of Depth podcast here.
You can find all the free resources I mentioned in the video on my website: https://www.deborahlukovich.com.
Learn about and download the new Dreamigos app. Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? https://bookshop.org/p/books/your-soul-is-talking-are-you-listening-deborah-lukovich/18416583?ean=9781087866673&next=t
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This episode is a follow-up to my last episode about how to deal with difficult people. In this episode, I help you understand what's happening beneath the surface of people who identify as MAGA.
Check out one of my favorite creators, Rich Louis of Leaving MAGA. As a former MAGA, his thoughtful interviews with people who are going through the process of leaving MAGA are insightful.
Likewise, your emotional reactions to their behavior are a doorway to deeper insights about yourself.
You'll learn how to disarm your negative emotions, as well as ways to respond to MAGA to disarm their negative emotions and possibly prompt them to engage in self-reflection.
If this is helpful, please consider subscribing, sharing, and becoming a monthly financial supporter of my work.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You can support the Dose of Depth podcast here.
You can find all the free resources I mentioned in the video on my website: https://www.deborahlukovich.com.
Learn about and download the new Dreamigos app. Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? https://bookshop.org/p/books/your-soul-is-talking-are-you-listening-deborah-lukovich/18416583?ean=9781087866673&next=t
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In this episode, I teach you how to find the deeper reason for your reactions to certain difficult people. These could be family members, annoying co-workers, or the special brand of difficult people that refer to themselves as MAGA. Then, I teach you how to use a communication template I created based on the Start with Heart principle from the book Crucial Conversations.
Enjoy feeling more empowered around those difficult people who can trigger you. Consider the trigger as your doorway to taking your power back.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You can support the Dose of Depth podcast here.
You can find all the free resources I mentioned in the video on my website: https://www.deborahlukovich.com.
Learn about and download the new Dreamigos app. Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? https://bookshop.org/p/books/your-soul-is-talking-are-you-listening-deborah-lukovich/18416583?ean=9781087866673&next=t
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In this episode of Dose of Depth Podcast, I have a chat with Urania Harp, a professional astrologist and intuitive guide.
Urania is passionate about uncovering the core connection between the spiritual and physical realms. She has oriented her studies and practices towards dream analysis for healing and self-transformation.
Urania is a co-host of Journey Through the Innerverse, a podcast discussing a variety of topics through the lens of dreams, astral travel, and mysticism.
We meander through astrology, tarot, dreams, and our mutual love of depth psychology and C.G. Jung.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
About Urania and her services: https://www.uraniauniverse.com/
Urani'a podcast Journey to the Innerverse: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjh8tB2Y93cUpk5wVvGR8GQ
Enjoy the two chats I had with Urania and Alexis on Journey to the Innerverse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY1---5nRa8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX_z6-QNhqE
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If you're ready to do inner work but not ready for or can't afford coaching, consider this option:
In this video, I explain why I created the Depth Psychology Resource Guide, what's in it, and how to use it.
Priced at $7.99, this affordable resource includes: (1) A worksheet designed to get you from insight to action; and (2) A worksheet to apply the associations method to your dreams and other images you want to explore.
This library of free content is organized by topic (e.g., depth psychology concepts, finding meaning in dreams, Jungian film theory, the intertwining nature of sexuality and spirituality, creativity, harnessing the wisdom of the body, and even the intersection of politics, depth psychology, and spirituality).
The guide includes links to hundreds of my blog posts, podcast episodes, and YouTube videos. Some are instructive and others are entertaining. All of them use my vulnerable story to demonstrate how to apply depth psychology to your life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You can support the Dose of Depth podcast here.
You can find all the free resources I mentioned in the video on my website: https://www.deborahlukovich.com.
Learn about and download the new Dreamigos app. Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? https://bookshop.org/p/books/your-soul-is-talking-are-you-listening-deborah-lukovich/18416583?ean=9781087866673&next=t
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In this video, I share how image journaling and writing poetry led to insights that could not have been gained through regular journaling or talk therapy.
I vulnerably share many of my images to illuminate the process of finding meaning in the strange ways our unconscious tries to get our attention.
Enjoy!
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Depth Psychology Coach
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Here's the blog post about my 3P's relationship framework.
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In this video, I discuss the power of writing, share tips on how to write to explore your dreams, and introduce you to my email coaching service.
Research has proven that journaling can benefit you in numerous ways, including helping you process your emotions and gain deeper insights from life events. Research also shows that writing down your goals increases your chances of achieving them by 85%.
Yet, many people avoid journaling and writing goals. Why? That's mysterious, and it also presents an opportunity to explore the more profound fear of revealing a deeply held truth. The fear has more to do with the consequences of the truth than with the truth itself.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach
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Here's the blog post about my 3P's relationship framework.
Learn about and download the new Dreamigos app. Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
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In this episode, I share a little about the thread that has run through what can appear to be my meandering career path, combined with personal experiences, which has turned me into a great coach.
I also share a couple of client testimonials to give you a taste of the positive impact I have on people's lives.
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Depth Psychology Coach
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening?
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In this episode, I share my personal experiences accessing the quantum realm.
I tie together depth psychology, quantum physics, neuroscience, and spiritual laws, which each lead to the same place: a sense of oneness, where we are loved and are love.
I also talk about how we may lose touch with these powerful principles when we lose our beginner's mindset. We may seek to control these laws to serve the ego, or our overthinking gets in our way.
Stories can help us "know" concepts in a way that we cannot through just listening to words.
If you enjoyed this video and would like to hear more, please leave a comment or send me a note at dlukovich@Gmail.com.
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Depth Psychology Coach
Author of Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening?
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In this episode of my new series, Dr. Deborah's Dreams, I share how I found meaning in my dream about riding a unicycle, cringing at a guy doing pullups and admiring his shoulder muscles, and walking arm in arm down the sidewalk with my ex-husband.
I bring some concepts to life, including projection, how images are not just visual, and how dreams are forward-looking, giving you clues about what's
coming up in your life. Additionally, I suggest considering compensation, which means that what is happening in the dream needs to be expressed in your waking life.
Enjoy, and don't forget to subscribe to my channel and website.
NEW: I'm part of a new dream app! Dreamigos is a place to go to record your dreams! You can keep them private, share them in a community, and even access experts like me. Click here: https://dreamigos.com
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This episode is part of my new series, Dr. Deborah's Dreams, where I bring depth psychology concepts to life by exploring the hidden meanings in my dreams.
This episode is about a dream that made me cringe. Dr. Oz makes an appearance, along with the sense that Marjorie Taylor Greene played the role of troublemaker.
ALSO NEW: I'm part of a new dream app! Dreamigos is a place to go to record your dreams! You can keep them private, share them in a community, and even access experts like me. Click here to learn more.
Enjoy!
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Depth Psychologist, Author, Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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This episode is part of my new series, Dr. Deborah's Dreams, in which I bring depth psychology concepts to life by exploring the hidden meanings in my dreams. This episode is about a recurring dream leading up to my midlife unraveling.
ALSO NEW: I'm part of a new dream app! Dreamigos is a place to go to record your dreams! You can keep them private, share them in a community, and even access experts like me. Click here to learn more.
I've always found having a "template" helpful when learning a new concept. I seek examples of playing with the theory and see what it takes to achieve a successful outcome. Research also suggests that we learn best through stories. In my new series,
Here's a neuroscience perspective: The most common block for people is the belief that things appear in your dreams because they were present during the previous day. For example, I watched a movie about tornadoes, so that's why a big storm showed up in my dream. If that hypothesis were true, everything about your day would appear in your dreams. Your psyche grabs hold of an image for a reason, to get you to explore something. Since our minds are predisposed to stick with the status quo, our unconscious must be sneaky and often trick us into going on a journey to gain a new insight.
Enjoy this video!
Click here for the first episode of Dr. Deborah's Dreams.
Click here for my YouTube video: How to Explore Your Dreams.
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Depth Psychologist, Author, Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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Check out my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. If you're looking for an alternative to Amazon, you can now buy it at www.bookshop.org.
Engage with my community on Instagram @dlukovich, @deborahlukovichphd.bsky.social, or Facebook.
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In this episode, I’m excited to chat with Patrick Laine.
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Patrick has a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry and founded Dreamigos, a novel platform for accessing one's inner world through dream exploration.
Dreamigos is a dedicated dream mobile app for recording, sharing, and interpreting dreams, dream therapy, yoga, and more. You can keep your dreams private or share them with a community of fellow dream tenders and even get guidance from the experts on the Dreamigos team.
Download from Google Play or the Apple App Store and learn more at www.dreamigos.com.
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Patrick says he fell in love with dreams in 2022, when he stepped onto a yoga mat for the first time. He was overwhelmed with the realization that the yoga mat was the magic carpet from his childhood recurring dream. I can’t wait to dig into that.
Patrick’s experience inspired Dreamigos, the app he founded to expand consciousness as we know it.
I know you'll enjoy our chat!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author, Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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Engage with my community on Instagram @dlukovich, @deborahlukovichphd.bsky.social, or Facebook.
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This episode is the second in a new series I launched: Deborah's Dreams.
NEW: I'm part of a new dream app! Dreamigos is a place to go to record your dreams! You can keep them private, share them in a community, and even access experts like me. Click here to learn more.
I've always found having a "template" helpful when I'm learning a new concept. I seek examples of how to play with the theory and see what it takes to achieve a successful outcome.
Research also suggests that we learn best through stories. In my new series, Dr. Deborah's Dreams, I bring depth psychology concepts to life by exploring the hidden meanings in my dreams.
If you need a neuroscience perspective, I'm happy to provide one. I could even do that in another video. But here's a head start. The most common block for people is the belief that things appear in your dreams because they were present during the previous day. For example, I watched a movie about tornadoes, so that's why a big storm showed up in my dream.
Think about that statement. It's ridiculous. If that hypothesis were true, everything about your day would appear in your dreams. Your psyche grabs hold of an image for a reason, to get you to explore something. Since our minds are predisposed to stick with the status quo, our unconscious must be sneaky and often trick us into going on a journey to gain a new insight.
My new video series is about how to explore that image, but you can get a head start by watching this YouTube video: How to Explore Your Dreams.
Enjoy this video!
Click here for the first episode of Dr. Deborah's Dreams.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author, Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. Click here to check out my services and schedule a FREE exploratory chat to see if depth psychology coaching is exactly what you need right now.
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Check out my work at www.deborahlukovich.com.
Check out my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. If you're looking for an alternative to Amazon, you can now buy it at www.bookshop.org.
Engage with my community on Instagram @dlukovich, @deborahlukovichphd.bsky.social, or Facebook.
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Dr. Craig Chalquist is back again. He is a former psychotherapist and the current Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University. Craig has two PhDs, one in philosophy and religion and the other in depth psychology. Craig's viral TikTok video about The Edge People.
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A lot has happened since my last chat with Craig in July 2024. We turned down a path as a country, and no one will escape the consequences.
We’re all being squeezed and pressured, which can feel disorienting and, at the very least, terrifying. Some people will be hurt more than others–financially, psychologically, and emotionally. Some individuals are even in danger because they are targets of hate and violence and even illegal acts committed by our own government. We must do what we can to help, speak up, and not stand by in the face of evil.
But what else can we do during chaotic and dangerous times? How do we pull ourselves out of the psychological muck?
By pretending we’re in a completely different world, the one we desire, by imagining what doesn’t exist yet. Einstein said that he received the entire theory of relativity in a dream. His mind didn’t create it; it came to him when he was open. He received out of what transcended him, and his discoveries changed the world.
Are you open to the new paradigm that is already taking root, even if it isn’t visible yet?
It doesn’t matter what role you play–whether as a visionary, teacher, artist, scientist, philosopher, business owner, parent, healthcare worker, or restaurant server–your existence is an expression of divine intelligence. The universal forces are poised to flow through your unique experience of being human, bringing something new and better to the world.
And join Craig's Lamplighter Community.
So, let's get started ...
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author, Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I have a chat with Jennifer Van Rossum. She is a Licensed Psychotherapist and founder of 5Peaks Life and Wellness, which is dedicated to expanding mental wellness beyond the walls of therapy.
Jennifer specializes in treating anxiety and building resilience. Her mission is to help people experience joy, hope, and meaning in the good and bad parts of life. She is also an inspiring example of a passion for an integrated approach to wellness, not shying away from the body and spiritual aspects, which I love.
Jennifer's unique approach feels fluid, like a dance between the feminine unconscious and masculine intellect. You won’t be surprised that just this week, she was voted for the second year in a row as the #1 mental health provider in her community, Lake County, Wisconsin.
There is one more thing that makes this a special conversation: Jennifer is one of my former clients. I’ll let her share her story about the nudge she felt to work with me personally and how Jungian approaches, which she wasn’t an expert in, benefited her personally and professionally.
So, let's get started ...
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In this episode, I read one of my blog posts: Mini Me is Dead! A Client Tale About When Liberation Overcomes Anxiety.
It delves into the struggle between the discomfort of someone’s current situation and the fear of making a change. Some argue that until the pain of staying in that situation outweighs the fear of breaking free, a person will remain, even if it’s dysfunctional and they yearn to escape.
The post shares a client story that illustrates the subtle shift that acts as a foundation for escaping the old situation by making small adjustments to react to the situation someone is trying to escape.
It’s a fun post. Let’s get started.
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In this episode, I read a blog post: The Power of Discontent: Transforming Your Life with the Depth of Wisdom Coaching Program.
First, I'd like to set some larger context.
Is your psycho/spiritual practice robust enough for these times?
Do you even have one?
Are you aware that your discontent, resistance, and agitation carry meaning?
Those twinges are how life nudges you to step up and become more of the person you are meant to be. When you expand your awareness, the world around you transforms positively. While expanding may feel scary, it's also exhilarating to be liberated from what once limited you.
Is your current personal development program sufficient?
If your mind or ego is in control, it may not be.
The world needs your self-awareness now more than ever, and I can help. This post outlines my new Depth of Wisdom comprehensive coaching program and includes a tiny excerpt from my upcoming memoir, When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Story. If you're interested, feel free to schedule a free exploratory chat.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote the day before the Inauguration. I had planned to let the day pass quietly until one of my clients told me she desperately needed help countering her foreboding sense about the near future.
Click here to read the original blog post here.
If you are still trying to understand what is happening but also want to live your life with a sense of peace, love, and joy, this recent blog post shares my reflections about the bigger picture and practical strategies for navigating stress and relationships during this chaotic time: Navigating Election Aftermath: Processing Emotions, Setting Boundaries, Countering Violence, and Rebuilding Community.
My thoughts and emotions were swirling, but writing and sharing them with you might help us illuminate the treasure hidden in them. One of us might gain a new insight, shifting our perspective and allowing us to see an option we couldn’t see before.
Things will worsen before they improve, but here’s how we can accelerate the process to the breakthrough of a new paradigm for how to live as humans.
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In this episode, I chatted with another Jungian enthusiast who has a beautiful balance between his masculine intellect and feminine, creative nature.
Dr. Peter Demuth is a forensic clinical psychologist and Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice. He is also an international lecturer and instructor at the C.G. Jung Institute of Chicago. He has published numerous papers on subjects such as ego strength, psychopathy, the Criminal Code, and the use of early memories in a therapeutic prison setting. Follow Peter on LinkedIn:
Peter is also a singer-songwriter with eight full-length albums, featuring over 160 original compositions. He has written original folk-pop music since 1972 and has performed worldwide, including in New York, Liverpool, London, Zurich, Paris, Baltimore, and Key West. He regularly plays in the greater Chicago area. You can find Peter's music here: Jango Radio, iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, CDBaby
Many of us are trying to make sense of what is happening in the world. A depth psychology perspective can help explore the deeper meaning of what our personal lives have to do with what’s wanting to break out of the collective unconscious. Regression is an inevitable part of the expansion of consciousness. Finding deeper meaning and our role in the transformative forces doesn’t erase the suffering that comes along with it.
You might enjoy my blog post about navigating the aftermath of the election. I include Dr. Demuth’s thoughts about the process of becoming violent, which is relevant because many people are currently being groomed to accept and commit violence.
Let's get started ...
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Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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Happy New Year!
Welcome to 2025 and Season 4 of Dose of Depth Podcast, a collection of interesting conversations, stories, and education that will inspire you to self-reflect on the deeper meaning of your life.
In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote a couple days before the end of 2024. I was listening to one of my favorite spiritual teachers, Michael Bernard Beckwith. When he said, "Religion is not Truth. Truth is hidden in the Word's Religions," I thought it was a great metaphor for our own lives.
Enjoy my reading of Hidden Truths: What Insights from 2024 Will You Integrate into 2025?
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Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote three weeks after processing the election results. Click here to read it.
Whether you were devastated by the election results or happy about them, if you can self-reflect, you will find something helpful in this post. It's longer than usual, so grab a coffee, tea or a nice glass of wine, maybe a pen and notebook, and dive into my reflections about moving forward post-election without compromising your values.
You’re used to my proclamations that something important is working itself out during this regressive period in American and global history. Unfortunately, the regression is only accelerating, and it isn’t clear what will need to happen to force new and just ideas about human dignity into consciousness that can overcome the hold that well-funded corrupt systems currently maintain.
(click here for a blog post about this topic)
Extremism is climaxing to force us to transcend old ideas and beliefs that have become stagnant, rigid, and unjust. The extremists are playing their role. They take pleasure in taunting you; they’re belligerent and mean, less rational, and becoming more vengeful and violent.
We’re all being backed into a corner.
You’ve probably discovered that tolerance, appeasement, negotiation, and capitulation aren't the answers. There’s an insatiable nature to those who have become swept up in the regression.
Something must run its course.
Artists, philosophers, psychologists, historians, and wise people already know their roles.
What's yours?
Let's get started ...
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I’m excited to talk to my new friend, Kevin Utley, Holistic Engineer and Mindset Coach.
Kevin's website: https://www.awkwavision.com
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Kevin describes his midlife journey as “Emptiness to Impact,” and we’ll hear about that from him directly.
As a personal coach and audio mixing professional, Kevin guides individuals towards self-discovery and inner harmony through mindset coaching and mix coaching. He is also a devoted family man, practicing Kung Fu and creating conscious music that integrates spiritual insights into his art.
Kevin created the FlowState Mindset program, which blends timeless principles with modern coaching strategies to help people find balance and purpose in a chaotic world.
We have an inner wisdom that we can tap into, but we’re so used to the mind leading us, it can be hard to hear the whispers of our Soul, our unconscious, our deep selves.
This is what we’re digging into today, how to develop a practice that allows us to slip into that state where we can tap into our inner wisdom.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I chat with a new friend whose work is so powerful. I know you’ll find it interesting and want to share it with others, especially those who have a family member with autism.
www.mendability.com
Kim Pomares is the CEO of Mendability, a company founded by his mother, Claudie Pomares, to enhance brain health through Sensory Enrichment Therapy. Kim joined Mendability to make its innovative approach accessible to those who need it most by validating the program in randomized controlled trials and developing a computer system to prescribe affordable, customized programs for families worldwide.
I think Kim’s work at Mendability is Soul work. Each time they strengthen the relationship between parents and children and impart knowledge about our brain’s natural healing properties without needing to be the expert, they impact the future, which is now uncertain.
Instead of feeling victimized by circumstances we cannot control or change, Mendability empowers parents and even teachers. Their stress probably goes down, too, relieving children from having to carry the stress of others.
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Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode, I share how I explored and found meaning in four dreams representing pivotal points in my midlife unraveling and reconstruction.
It all started in 2013 when I journaled, "I can't live this way anymore."
Then Hermes the Trickster showed up seducing me with the promise that pursuing an MA/PhD in depth psychology would save my Soul. C.G. Jung became my spiritual teacher.
In a three-act play, you can consider these dreams occurring in Acts one and two; Act Three is still unfolding.
I cover concepts like recurring dreams, embodied dreams, evolving dream symbolism, fantasies, image journaling, active imagination, and regular journaling.
Enjoy!
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This guided meditation will help you explore anger and discover what it wants from you. Emotions are one way our unconscious tries to get us to explore something, turn it into an insight that would be useful right now, and prompt us to unfold into a future version of ourselves.
The idea for this guided meditation came from my work with a couple who wanted to increase intimacy in their relationship. After a joint session where things were shared that hadn't been shared before, individual follow-up sessions revealed some old anger and resentment that was sure to interfere with their desire for more intimacy.
Click here for the blog post: The Road to Intimacy Begins with Self-Intimacy.
Anger is a great emotion. It's juicy because its fiery nature means it wants to move, expand, spread, and transmute into something creative. The anger you decide to focus on could be fresh or from something old you've never been able to process or accept. Even if you don't think you're holding onto any anger, there is at least a little bit hiding somewhere in your unconscious. We start by noticing where in our body anger is hiding. After active imagination, we can explore the images to find a new insight, lens, or learning, followed by being open to where the metaphor is happening in our waking life.
My book Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? is a great resource for exploring the images. Click here to listen for free on Dose of Depth. Chapter 11 - Emotions and Feelings and Chapter 16 - Methods: Finding Associations.
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Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You might like this guided meditation too: Guided Active Imagination for Anxiety.
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In this episode, I read a recent blog post: Freaking Hermes! How Your Unconscious Tortures You into Action.
“Freaking Hermes!”
This is how one of my clients started a recent session. I laughed and told him this was a very good thing.
He didn’t like that answer, but by the end of the session, he was ready to have a difficult and honest conversation with his wife.
Who is this Hermes character?
The Greek god Hermes, known as a guide of souls, shows up when he’s had enough denial of the truth of your situation. He gets tired of your refusal to take actins to allow your true self to exist in the world. Hermes works in sneaky and infuriating ways. He pisses you off, but eventually, he gets what he wants: To prompt consciousness-raising about how important you are to the world.
Hermes wants more out of you than simply “putting up” with your life.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You might like my blog post: When is Sexual Attraction Not About Sex?
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Jenn Wodtke is back for a chat about Touchless Orgasm, which she describes as a revolutionary shift in how women can experience pleasure. Instead of relying on external stimulation—hands, a toy, a partner, erotic novels—touchless orgasm allows you to find the pleasure that is already inside you.
Start by learning Jenn's three keys for touchless orgasm.
There was a time when the union between the feminine and masculine as manifested in sexual union was celebrated as sacred. There was a time when the feminine was seen and experienced as the path to the spiritual realm. Then patriarchal forces clashed with the development of religious doctrine, which split off the feminine and denigrated the feminine. The march towards sacralizing suffering instead of pleasure began.
Reconnecting with the inner feminine requires vulnerability, which is not so easy in a culture that has a warped definition of what it means to be strong. It’s time to course correct, not by overcompensating and cheapening sexuality. We’ve already done that by focusing on quantity and techniques, which just scratches the surface of the deeper meaning of sexuality and pleasure.
There is a purpose to arousal and attraction, and the awkwardness of intimate connection is not always about the desire to have literal sex. Enjoy opening your mind to the deeper meaning of pleasure.
Try this: Self-Intimacy: Reflections & Guided Meditation.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
P.S. You might like my blog post: When is Sexual Attraction Not About Sex?
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I'm super excited to share this very timely episode, my chat with depth psychology colleague and friend, Dr. Craig Chalquist, former psychotherapist and current Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University. Congratulations to Craig for recently securing his second PhD in philosophy and religion. I will do a follow-up blog post that includes lots of links. Click here to subscribe to get notifications.
This episode is for:
Survivors of domestic abuse who are feeling re-traumatized by the current political situation. You're NOT crazy!
People seeking to understand the root of the current climaxing of division and intolerance and how to transcend it.
Republicans who feel that their party has abandoned them.
Democrats, Progressives, Leftists who feel taken for granted by the Democratic Party but now are projecting onto the party the need to save us. Also, Democrats who find themselves triggered too and fall into the trap of Othering and demonizing those swept up in intolerance and hatred.
Others who have been swept up or know people who have been swept up by what can be considered a cult of personality led by Donald Trump and funded by right-wing billionaires who have a Christian nationalist fantasy of reshaping our government without our consent.
The spirit of this chat is one of seeking deeper understanding of dynamics without demonizing individual people, except the right-wing billionaires who are exploiting the divide and conquer strategy.
Towards the end, we discuss the path towards healing, which involves self-reflection, collectivizing, and allowing ourselves to be a vehicle for the expansion of consciousness, which always manifests creatively.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychologist, Author & Host of Dose of Depth Podcast
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In this episode I read a blog post that I wrote after reflecting on a few chats with male clients over the past few months. Click here to read the post.
Some of those men were conscious of an inner battle between their feminine and masculine that was holding them back in some way from fully expressing their creativity. For other male clients, this battle involved their sense of identity and exploration of gender and sexual orientation.
What arouses us has deeper meaning than we realize, but our mind jumps in and filters out anything that it perceives to be a threat to existing belief systems. Some of those beliefs and assumptions are hidden from consciousness.
Arousal is a way our unconscious speaks to us and when we feel shame about the arousal, the part of us that is trying to break free is in conflict with these beliefs. Suppressing the urge instead of exploring the deeper symbolic meaning only generates anxiety and frustration, which eventually get projected outward onto others or inward potentially as depression.
A depth psychology framework can help you explore the deeper symbolic meaning, the true source of arousal, which is authenticity.
I hope you enjoy and find my perspective helpful for yourself or for understanding others.
Deborah
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You might be a natural peace builder and not even know it!
In this episode, I’m excited to do something different with someone I’ve already had on Dose of Depth. Click here to listen to my previous chat with Sher Griffin titled: Misfits to the Rescue: The Intersection of Autism, Giftedness & ADHD.
Sher embraces her uniqueness as someone with a recently discovered neurotype intersection of autism, giftedness, and ADHD. She’s passionate about transformative social change and the intricacies of liberation psychology. She is also the visionary founder and co-creator of The Compassion Collective, where she curates a diverse community of social misfits for the purpose of navigating the intersections of social exclusion, neurodivergence, and substance use disorders.
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It was Sher’s idea to have a conversation about peacebuilding. I thought it was interesting that she considered my mission to grow a movement of self-reflecting humans as peacebuilding work. I hadn’t thought about it that way, but I was intrigued.
So today, Sher is going to be asking the questions and we’re going to chat about peacebuilding. In addition to becoming educated about the topic, I know you’ll be inspired to search out and get involved in movements that you might not think of as peacebuilding projects.
My other goal is for you to realize that exploring your unconscious and disarming your emotional reactions to other people results in your showing up in the world in differently. The once emotional reactions shift to more effective responses that can counter the momentum today experiencing in the spreading of extreme, rigid and stagnant ideas that are being expressed through aggressive and even violent means. We need to become aware of how we can be peacebuilders.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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My new friend Jenn Wodtke and I have a conversation about pleasure. I come at the topic from the symbolic perspective and Jenn brings a more practical and literal lens to the topic. I share some interesting personal stories too.
You'll love our unique takes on sexual fantasies and the problem of sacralizing suffering over pleasure. Jenn Wodtke is a pleasure and orgasm coach. You can learn more and schedule a free chat on her website: https://jennwodtke.com
Blog post: What If You're Not Supposed to Find the ONE?
Blog post: When is Sexual Attraction Not About Sex?
Blog post: Sex, God & Transcending Patriarchy.
Blog post: Men Are Not The Enemy.
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In this episode, I’m excited to have a chat with William Diplock, Senior Trainer and Program Coordinator for Gender Equity & Reconciliation International, in Brisbane, Australia.
William is a Senior GERI Trainer and Program Coordinator for GERI, in Brisbane, Australia. GERI stands for Gender Equity & Reconciliation International. I will include a link to my interview with its founders. And William is one of the 16 contributors to the book, Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family.
You could say that the overarching task of humanity right now is the reconciliation of the oldest wound of humanity, which is patriarchy. This wound manifests in very devious ways and once you understand it, you’ll see it everywhere you sense a power imbalance.
Current research shows that vulnerability is required for deep connection, and it is deep connection that will save us and the planet. But now, as Carol Gilligan, American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist suggests in her book Why Does Patriarchy Persist, patriarchy has become a defense mechanism for all of us, used to avoid the vulnerability that is required for deep connection, even with ourselves.
Someone must step up and go first in this reconciliation project, and that’s where William Diplock comes in and his work with a growing movement of brave men, women, and those who transcend gender.
Listen to my chat with the founders of GERI
Watch it on YouTube
So, let’s get started.
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In this episode, I’m excited to have a chat with Marc Bènèteau about relational Intelligence, authentic relating, circling, and Marc’s honest telling of the end to his “40-year war against himself and the world.” He is the author of four books covering various topics in Relational Intelligence, Emotional Communication, sexuality, and human potentials.
Learn more about Marco at his website.
Marc is a self-described “love revolutionary” and former “relational idiot” which, according to him, is not a bad qualification for the job of being a relational leader. His recent book is a memoir titled, Broke, Single, Crazy and Old: The Redemption of a Sex and Love Addict.
I literally bumped into Marc’s first book, As Lovers Do: Sexual and Romantic Partnership as a Path of Transformation. It was fall of 2016, and I had just secured my MA in depth psychology and was accepted into the PhD program. My 24-year marriage technically had ended about six months earlier, and I got myself swept up in the most ironic love affair with a man 17 years younger.
Marco's book gave me a framework to understand my own receptive feminine, which is not passive. To receive is a choice. Coming into deeper relationship with my unconscious, my feminine, and giving my masculine a break, led to my creative unleashing.
Enjoy our chat!
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What's your relationship with place?
Can you feel the places you live or visit speaking to you about their experience?
Do you have an irrational preference to live near the water? Or a hatred for suburban living?
In this episode, I’m excited to have a chat with my new depth psychology buddy and a fellow alum of Pacifica Graduate Institute. Dr. Craig Chalquist is the Academic Program Director of Consciousness, Psychology, and Transformation at National University.
A former psychotherapist and long-time graduate instructor and administrator, Craig teaches and writes at the intersection of psyche, place, philosophy, myth, leadership, and dream.
Craig has so much on his website: https://www.chalquist.com/
Check out his community Enchantvale: https://www.enchantivism.org/
Books: https://www.chalquist.com/books
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I love Craig’s mind, but even I was overwhelmed by the comprehensive nature of his dissertation, which is titled: Re-storying Our Lore: Fiction, Vision, and Imagination as an Earth-Honoring Wisdom Path.Two of his books are specifically about Terrapsychology, which you’ll learn about. One is more practical and titled, Change the Game: 20 Strategies for Inventive Real-Life Problem-Solving, and another is a work of fiction titled, Soulmap: A Novel.I promise if you can let go of the mind and allow and receive our conversation, you will have a new kind of experience.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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This episode is for people suffering from anxiety or other negative emotions, like overwhelm, guilt, panic, feeling trapped, fear, sadness, etc.
I will guide you through some breath work and connecting with the parts of the body where those emotions are gathered. Then we will invite your unconscious to attach an image to that area of the body. The image could be visual, a sensation, color, temperature, a memory, a person, or even a scene.
Next, I'll guide you in communicating with the images and asking them to move out of your body so you can get a better look, ask the image some questions, and maybe even get an answer or a clue.
The exercise will help you detach from the burden of thoughts and emotions. You will learn how to be the observer instead of feeling overwhelmed.
If you like this, and want a guided experience that focuses on thoughts, along with a more open experience of active imagination, listen to Come Breathe & Imagine.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode I read a blog post I wrote in 2020 about the film Aquaman, and then I updated it in 2023.
Film images are one way my unconscious speaks to me directly. Certain films have had a strong pull on me, especially during my midlife unraveling and reconstruction. Now, I do not question my urge to view some films or even Netflix series as many as eight or nine times.
Exploring those images early in my midlife unraveling led to personal insights that I would not have gained in any other way. As my midlife reconstruction phase began, certain film images overwhelmed me and new insights transcended my personal life, revealing clues about the chaos happening in the larger collective.
Also, if you have been feeling the urge to explore your relationship with religion, especially Christianity, you might be intrigued by my experience of this particular film.
My original blog post - The Hidden Meaning of the Film Aquaman - has links to many resources to assist in your exploration.
Enjoy being entertained or maybe you'll find inspiration to dig deeper into your unconscious, the bottomless pit of insights about the deeper meaning of your life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I bring back one of my favorite writers and guests.
JD Edwin is a science fiction and urban fantasy author who believes the first goal of fiction is FUN! She is the author of the Headspace series, an easy-to-read, action-packed science fiction trilogy published by Story Cartel Press.
Headspace (book 1)
Master of the Arena (book 2)
Orb Hunters (book 3)
JD's Website
Our first chat was two years ago, just after JD had published the first in her Headspace series, and then I had her back a year later after she published the second. She’s not only completed that series, but she’s onto to another series. I haven’t gotten to the third in the series, but the first two were amazing.
My first interview w/JD on Dose of Depth
Our second chat on Dose of Depth
One thing that I really was intrigued about was JD’s use of non-binary story telling. She doesn’t describe characters by gender.
Today, we’re going to talk about the intersection of vulnerability and creativity. I’ll start with this truth: The unconscious – personal and collective – seeks to create. Your unconscious seeks to create. Create what? You might ask.
It was JD’s idea to talk about this topic. It seems our first chat inspired her journey to get to know herself a little deeper.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Jungian film theory - Chapter 23 from my Soul book: What Movie Are You Living?
A Chat About the Film Poor Things, w/PJ Dever.
YouTube version about Poo Things.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote a couple weeks ago. Click here to read it.
It was turning out to be an interesting week. Of course, this story begins with a dream that includes Rob Thomas and having to pee really bad.
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Back to the story. Enjoy!
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote in February, 2024.
As usual, a recent walk on a sunny day prompted some new ideas about how to share some of what my clients and I have learned together on our journeys.
The topics are exploring the spiritual meaning of physical/body challenges and changing up a story about trauma to release shame.
Enjoy some recent realizations and consider scheduling a FREE 30 minute exploratory chat to launch your Indiana Jones adventure of self discovery.
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In this episode I want to inspire you to activate your inner philosopher because the world needs your reflections about the meaning of your life within the context of all the chaos going on. CG Jung warned something like, the fate of humanity depends upon the self-reflecting individual so as not to get swallowed up by mass-minded ideas (aka conspiracy theories that are spreading like wildfire).
My guest today is someone I’ve been following on Instagram. It felt like a seduction of sorts by the time I came across the black and white photo of Johnny Price looking stoic. Reading his profile only intrigued me more. Johnny calls himself a poet, philosopher, sage, shaman, Buddhist warrior monk in search of truth. And his collection of 2,000 books puts me to shame. Oh, and he’s working on his first novel.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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This episode is about self-intimacy and includes a guided meditation for those seeking a deeper and more intimate relationship with themselves and others.
Sexuality, arousal, passionate physical touch are all ways creative intelligence works through us to increase consciousness.
The expansion of consciousness always involves an unleashing of creativity. New ideas of what it means to be human, inventions, perspectives, artistic expression, all these things express the demand by archetypal energies to evolve, and the expansion of consciousness always manifests as an expansion of love and compassion.
There’s a Jungian analyst that suggests that the Self (capital S), not our ego self, is the bridge to the Divine, God, nature, the quantum realm, whatever you want to call it. If you think you know God, that is certainly blasphemous, for God is unknowable. God is consciousness and comes to know itself through the unfolding of consciousness itself.
This means that the more we come into relationship with our Self (capital S), the closer we are to that transcendent force. The relationship with Source is not about silly words, rather it is about truly knowing, the root of which is to relate, which requires the body.
Withstanding the vulnerability of coming into deeper relationship with your Self prepares you for connecting more deeply with another human being, including a romantic partner.
Rather than being needy of a partner’s affection, your depth of relationship with yourself invites your partner to match your vulnerability. The two of you become a vessel for creative intelligence to mix with each of you to unleash something new into the world.
There’s so much more to intimacy that you realize and the key to experiencing new heights of ecstasy and depths of meaning is to begin with self-intimacy.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I’m sharing my passion for Jungian film theory. I’ve been wanting to incorporate my thoughts about the deeper meaning of movies into my podcast. I guess my second viewing of the movie Poor Things pushed me over the procrastination edge.
The fact that I could not immediately articulate how this film – Poor Things – impacted my psyche was a clue that it was communicating something new.
I couldn’t think of a better person to have this conversation with than my friend and former colleague, PJ Dever. He’s one of those friends that you can chat with for hours and wonder where the time has gone.
PJ is a nonprofit leader working out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He grew up in New Jersey where he also went to college. He grew up in a household with an amazing father and three sisters. He and his partner spend time hiking, camping, and traveling. He has an intense love of stories and ensures that his life is filled with interesting books, people, and movies.
For years, our conversations naturally gravitated towards films and Netflix series whether they were blockbusters that appealed to the masses or more niche films.
In today's episode, I share a little bit about Jungian film theory, specifically three concepts: (1) CG Jung’s discernment between psychological and visual art; (2) Luke Hockley's concept of the third imag; and (3) Jung’s idea about the difference between symbol and sign. And then PJ and I get into it.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote in spring of 2019. Three things I was reflecting about came together, the dramatic uptick in hate speech and acts of violence, my reading of Martin Luther King Jr.'s book, Strength to Love, and how nonviolent resistance works from a depth psychology perspective.
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Four years have passed since I wrote that blog post, and so many people have been swept up by a negative version of the archetypal energy that is rooted in the biggest collective wound of all - patriarchy.
But there is a growing counter energy that is pushing the process of forcing something new out of the collective unconscious. People swept up in this version of the same archetypal wound are hungry for understanding more at a deeper level, not only about themselves but about those who seek to harm and trigger them.
As they heal, what once triggered them evolves into the strength to hold space for those who cannot self-reflect and are not aware that their projections of intolerance and anger onto others is mirroring back to them their own internalized self-hatred and feelings of unworthiness.
If you've been coming into deeper relationship with your Self, we need you to take the next step to help disrupt the action and reaction pattern that reinforces the projection of those who are not self aware.
Enjoy learning more about this.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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I’m excited to chat with Sher Griffin, who describes herself as a thrice-exceptional individual with a recently discovered neurotype intersection of autism, giftedness, and ADHD. Sher Immerses herself in the realm of transformative social change, delving into the intricacies of liberation psychology through her graduate studies at Saybrook University.
Sher is also the visionary founder and co-creator of The Compassion Collective: A Phoenix Society, where she curates a diverse community of social misfits for the purpose of navigating the intersections of social exclusion, neurodivergence, and substance use disorders.
I have a feeling it’s the misfits who can save us, not conventional ideas. The faster we stop resisting Generation Z and those whom we now describe as neurodiverse, and instead empower them with our trust, the faster we can work towards changing up all those systems that don’t work for enough humans right now.
Sher's socials:
TikTok: @sherlove971
Instagram: @Neurocomplexity
Website: www.recoveringspiritualbeing.com
The Compassion Collective Interest Form - https://form.jotform.com/232226952283154
Resources:
Autism/ADHD Assessments - https://embrace-autism.com/autism-tests/
I Have Been the Bad Guy" - Dr. Bernadette "Bird" Bowen, a pioneer in Algorithmic Research (Find her dissertation on her website: https://www.bernadettebowen.com; TikTok: @bbiiirdbphd
"Rainforest Mind" - Paula Prober - https://rainforestmind.com
Prof. Sol, Autism/ADHD Coach https://www.professorsol.comTikTok: @better_sol
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In this episode, I’m excited to have a chat with a fellow PhD in depth psychology and alum of Pacifica Graduate Institute. We’re going to talk about two of my favorite topics combined: the feminine and film.
Jen Degnan Smith has a Ph.D. in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology, an MA in Applied Psychology, and a BA in Economics. Her career spans the US and Europe, focusing on where psychology and business intersect and teaching Organizational Behavior to MBA and undergraduate students. She is currently co-teaching a Ph.D. course on the psychological and cultural impacts of technology at Pacifica Graduate Institute.
Jen is dedicated to healing and empowering the feminine principle within individuals and cultures. She writes, consults, speaks, and teaches about how to find a new feminine through myth, images, dreams, synchronicities, and place. And Jen also works with people to find their soul's calling, as connecting to soul is a key part of empowering the feminine.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster & Blogger
Jen's article: The Shape of Water: An Ecopsychological Fairy Tale
Jen's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jenniferdegnansmith/
Book: Terrapsychology, Craig Chalquist
Book: The Interpretation of Fairy Tales, Marie Louise von Franz
Book: The Cultural Complex, Samuel Kimbles and Thomas Singer
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In this episode, I’m excited to have a chat with someone from my hometown of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She’s as passionate as I am about making the world a better place. I met Mary Triggiano decades ago when she was the managing attorney for Legal Action of Wisconsin, the state’s largest nonprofit law firm committed to ensuring access to the justice system especially for those least able to afford it.
Since I last connected with Mary, she’s lived a full professional life, including working as a judge in children’s court, domestic violence court, and the civil division, as well as serving as chief judge for the Wisconsin judicial district that includes Milwaukee County.
In her quest to help reshape the justice system to be more humanistic through especially a restorative practices approach, Mary has accomplished so much in the court system, from launching and expanding initiatives, including addressing root issues within families to get them back on track so children that had been removed can be returned to their families and have a better chance to heal and succeed, and programs to better serve the most vulnerable victims, babies impacted by substance use.
Mary seemed like the perfect candidate to be hired recently as the first permanent director of Marquette University Law School’s Andrew Center for Restorative Justice. I feel lucky to get some time with her as she’s still settling into her new role.
You know me, I’m going to bring my depth psychology lens to this critical topic of justice.
Link: What is restorative Justice?
Link: resources on restorative justice
Link: Message from Mary
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I’m excited to bring back Vlado Šolc for the third time. He’s a Jungian analyst and psychotherapist practicing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, my hometown. Vlado has authored many articles, and he is the co-author of the book, Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology.
Listen to our chat about self-reflection in a time of conspiracy theories.
Listen to our chat about a depth approach to therapy or watch on YouTube.
Today’s episode is a spontaneous conversation about the rule of creativity and imagination in healing and growth. There will be props and vulnerable sharing of stories, drawings, and poetry by Vlado and me of how imagination has contributed to our unfolding and how that’s related to what’s going on out there in the world.
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Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster & Blogger
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote on May 1, 2020, after being interviewed for the Moms Meet Sanity online campaign. The title of the post is: The Evolving Relationship Between a Mother and Her Children.
It was also five days before I left my hometown, not knowing COVID was just getting started, and leaving my young adult children behind. They smiled as I drove away to start my new life in a beach town, but I was in shock I think, because I had no idea what was next except that I would be defending my dissertation two weeks after moving into my new place.
I was overwhelmed, lots of people were overwhelmed, and as I drove away from my smiling children, I stopped and asked them to take another photo looking sad.
Our starting point with our children is our own experience as a child. Whether you remember your childhood as joyful, mediocre, or traumatic, our deepest and most ingrained patterns of how we relate to others were established during this time.
These patterns helped us survive childhood AND they often run their course at some point during our lives. They stop working . . .
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Walter Williams, host of Deep Discussion podcast, certified life coach, and a poet; and he’s a dad and a husband too.
I came across Walter on Twitter. His response to one of my reflection questions got my attention so I checked out his profile. All I had to know was that he was a poet and I swooned. I love poets, I’m a groupie for many, I had been trying to find one who was brave enough to chat with me. I’ve found poets are amazing and shy.
Poets are special people, because they seem to be at least semi-aware of their role as vessels for creative intelligence, which wants to mix with their unique experience of being human to create something that can only be created in partnership with creative intelligence.
Those people who say things like, “I just don’t get poetry,” usually say it with a defensive attitude and I wonder if that comes from a semi-awareness of the fear of what’s in their unconscious.
Anyway, poets have an openness that’s rare, a willingness to surrender to something bigger than themselves, and the capacity to be vulnerable, which is the number one requirement for connecting at a deep level with other human beings.
I think you’re going to like our chat.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I published this week, August 2023: A Framework for Self-Reflection in a Time of Conspiracy Theories.About a year ago, I had a chat with Jungian Analyst Vlado Solc about his book, Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology, which he wrote in partnership with George Didier. This post is a follow-up article about the book and the topic.
The book is a big read, but dense academic language is brought to life through examples of relatable lived experiences. Importantly, rather than being left with a feeling of diminishment or dismissal of religion, this book reinforces the need to respect the religious/spiritual instinct that seems to be part of what it means to be human.
Enjoy!
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YouTube Video: Jesus was a liberal wimp
Podcast episode: Self-Reflection in a Time of Conspiracy Theories
Podcast episode: Three Ways of Why: A Chat with Vlado Solc
Root of "to know"
Book: Nice Racism, by Robin Diangelo 2022
YouTube video: A Chat with My Gen Z son
Blog Post: What is Generation Z Mirroring Back to Us?
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In this episode, I have a fun and feisty chat with Natasha Carter, about her first novel, Unfinished Business.
It was a year ago when I decided to dive into Twitter. I had about 55 followers and I found a wonderful community of writers and creators. I was intrigued by the constant flow of amusing, inspiring, truthful, and self-reflective tweets by this woman who occasionally posted an inviting but playful picture of her biting her full red lips and offering a tiny peek at her cleavage.
Natasha and I share a passion for writing about romance and sex, but we have difference experiences and perspectives. So much has changed since I was her age, and yet so much hasn’t changed. We’re both feisty and rebellious. In a way, Natasha is more rebellious than I am. She’s more obnoxious in a good way, and at the same time, her posts reveal her vulnerability. But she learned earlier than me not to hide her vulnerability, in fact it’s likely what attracts people to her, like a siren’s song. She’s a fighter in public, where I’m not really unless it’s on behalf of others.
Anyway, I know you’re going to love this conversation, and for sure, you’ll want to buy her novel whether you’re into erotic romance or not.
Visit Natasha's website
Check out her book, Unfinished Business
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Blog post: What if You're Not Supposed to Find the One?
Blog Post: When is Sexual Attraction Not About Sex?
Podcast episode: Creative Monogramy, Consensual Non Monogamy, Sexual Shadow
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In this episode I read a blog post from January 2021. This one needs no introduction. Let’s jump in. The title is: I Didn’t Become a Romantic Until I Got Divorced: Midlife Reflections.
Did you come of age in the 1980s? What kinds of messages did you internalize having to do with gender roles? Have you thought about how those messages may have shown up as limiting beliefs that stand in the way of fully expressing yourself in midlife.
Only now can I appreciate the complexity of my own coming of age experience.
It was a time of great progress in many ways. But the price of admission to the cold professional world was detaching from any sense of feminine or focus on relationship.
The excitement of new possibilities was matched by an almost equal amount of intense anger that found righteous validation in political movements couched in religious belief. The impact on women of being constantly demonized as family wreckers and sexual deviants cannot be overstated, especially when the chorus included other women.
Any of this sound familiar?
In this post, I share a little bit about how I came to find and begin healing my wounds related to the feminine, masculine, sexuality, and spirituality. Then I offer an exercise you can try to strengthen the relationship with your feminine through your body. Enjoy!
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Other links:
Blog post: Men Are NOT The Enemy
Blog post: Sex, God & Transcending Patriarchy
Dose of Depth episode: Can Christianity Transcend Patriarchy?
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Rev. Cynthia Brix and Dr. William Keepin, founders of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International, and lead authors of a new book, titled Gender Equity & Reconciliation: Thirty Years of Healing the Most Ancient Wound in the Human Family.
This is one of my favorite topics, the dreaded and stubborn patriarchal wound that wreaks havoc within the psyches of men and women. Even those who have successfully detached from the conventional and limiting labels of gender and sexual orientation, meaning they are more conscious about these perceived opposing energies of masculine and feminine, they too suffer.
William is a mathematical physicist with training in contemplative spirituality and transpersonal psychology, his research on global warming and sustainable energy influenced international environmental policy.
Cynthia and William are joined by sixteen other authors in this new book, which offers such a wide range of thoughts on various aspects of this complex gender wound. What a fantastic anthology of writers considering this topic from so many angles.
Blog post: Men Are Not the Enemy: Healing the Collective Wounds that Prevent Deep Connection Between Men and Women
Blog post: Sex, God & Transcending Patriarchy
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote almost three years ago, fall of 2020. I had been trying to settle into a new life in a beach town after leaving my hometown. I had already gone through the unraveling part of midlife, and I was in the phase I fondly refer to as midlife reconstruction. A synchronicity had led me to an online writing community, I gathered up the courage to launch myself as a writer, and I wrote my first short story, an erotic romance based in real life. I never saw that coming. So, a lot was going.
Let’s get into it. The post is titled: What Does it Mean When a Penis Shows Up in Your Dream? The Deeper Meaning of Sexual Images. Wait . . . don’t go just because I said PENIS. Come on. Don’t tell me you haven’t had that dream where your sister is performing oral sex on you. You’ve at least dreamt about having sex with someone other than your partner or spouse, right?
Except for those who have been victims of sexual assault, the embarrassment or shame you feel when you have dreams like this may have less to do with literal sex and more to do with coming into relationship with a part of yourself that has been neglected or a part of you that others disapproved of shamed you for.
These images are how your unconscious gets you to explore those repressed or denied urges, and if you have the courage to linger in those difficult emotions, you could release a new creative urge – or overcome some literal sexual hang ups – both of those things happened to me.
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In this episode, I have a conversation with one of my clients, Angela. She’s a teacher and a mom of two preteen kids, and she fills lots of other roles.
Recently, Angela and I realized that that she has been seeing me for depth psychology coaching more than four years. I sometimes call her Junior Depth Psychologist because she’s getting so good at exploring her dreams and finding the metaphor in her waking life. Angela’s journey also brings to life CG Jung’s theory of individuation, which he defines as consciously exploring your own unconscious.
Angela is a great story with an interesting arc of ups and downs, painful realizations, new empowering ah ha moments, and consciousness about entrenched patterns, a consciousness that helps her see she has options and choices that she didn’t realize she had before. Angela is also unique among my clients in that she can really feel the difference between who she was that first time I met her and who she is now, and she can sense how she’s being pulled into a future version of herself too. Not all my clients have that capacity.
So, for those reasons, and the fact she said yes to my invitation, we’re having a chat today about her experience of depth psychology coaching. Plus, Angela is just a delight and such a lovely person and has also developed that important midlife survival trait of having a sense of humor about her own experience of coming into deeper relationship with herself.
Blog post - A Dream About Ferrets Leads to Insight About First Post-Divorce Relationships
Blog post - Dissecting Midlife: There's a Point to Unraveling
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote two years ago, Spring of 2021. I had settled into my new life in a beach town and renewed my lease for another year. I had found an online writing community and finished a real draft of my memoir. I was feeling good . . . except for one thing. My sleep sucked.
Sometimes, I would be wide awake for three hours, just lying there as if I was on alert for danger. Other nights, I would wake up with a hot flash so intense, I’d whip my covers across the bed, and then when my body cooled down enough to fall asleep, I’d wake up shivering. This went on for months.
One day, I decided I wanted to know more about this menopause thing. The more I reflected, the more I realized that women have been trained to resist and reject this part of their lives.
I hope you enjoy my reading of this blog post about coming into relationship with menopause. Don’t kid yourselves, men, you have your own version of hormone fluctuations, and you can be just as moody as women. It’s just more accepted for you.
Enjoy, learn something, and be entertained!
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In this episode, I have a chat with my son, William, who's turning 23 in September and graduating from CSU with a degree in computer science. He’s hoping to get a job working for an organization that is passionate about the environment.
William is a super interesting Gen Z young man, not just because he’s my son, but because of his journey, his temptation to turn to the dark side as I call it, his hunger for knowledge, and his growing capacity to reflect about his relationship with himself and how he fits into the collective of humanity.
His strong opinions remind me of me in my twenties, which makes me cringe, but honestly, he’s way ahead of where I was back then when it comes to being aware of larger collective forces that are wreaking havoc right now, the dismantling that’s happening that’s trying to drive something new out of the collective unconscious before it’s too late.
William is part of a generation that has absorbed the impact of collective dysfunction and is resisting participating in systems that are peaking in their exploitation. Many in this generation also carry the burden of collective anxiety because what must be created to replace these exploitive systems that seem to be dismantling doesn’t exist and at the same time, they must weather the scolding and disdain by their older generations. Gen Z men in particular seem at risk of being exploited by those who seek to make money off of hate.
Enjoy our chat!
Click here to read my blog post: What is Generation Z Mirroring Back to Us?
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote about a year ago, Spring of 2022, two years after I arrived in Jacksonville Beach, FL for the beginning of the reconstruction phase of midlife. I was over the unraveling phase thank goodness. The post is titled: Volcanic Ash Storm: The Secret Agenda of Dreams and Film Images.
There’s this moment, or series of moments, when you become aware of what you’ve shed, what parts of you have died or stepped back so other parts of you can take the lead. It’s like you have a cast of characters and different ones appear in different scenes that together make up a story arc, your life story.
But during this pivotal moment, how do you know which characters is the right one? What if the wrong one shows up for the wrong scene. Yikes. There may be some hesitation or anxiety about who you’re becoming.
If we’re paying attention, during those moments, our unconscious is happy to give us clues that pull us forward, that prevent us from succumbing to the old dysfunctional tendencies that we successfully overcame.
This was one of those moments. I had been through the unraveling, and I had begun to find new purpose, which began manifesting as publishing my Soul book, launching my podcast, and feeling my way into a depth psychology coaching practice.
This blog post is a story about one of those moments, one of many in between moments.
I hope you’re entertained by another awkward story about my midlife journey, and maybe you can even find yourself in it.
Let’s get started.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote two years ago, beginning of 2021. I had survived my first eight months after leaving my hometown to start a new adventure in Jacksonville Beach. I still had no idea what I was going to be doing for work, but I had found a little groove.
Following your Soul’s calling is for the brave. Answering the mysterious calling into the unknown requires trusting something other than your mind and conventional beliefs. It can feel terrifying, immoral, irresponsible, and when you feel these things, sometimes it means you’re on the right track to discovering something new, something no one else knows. The excitement and sense of purpose makes up for the fear and anxiety.
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote a year ago, Spring of 2022, about the experience of midlife crisis, or unraveling.
Some want to avoid calling it a crisis, but I think that’s spiritual bypassing, or your ego just trying to control the process. Remember, what’s in your unconscious is not known, so when pieces of it come out and challenge your beliefs, it should feel like a crisis. Some of the things you thought were true suddenly cannot be reconciled with the situation in which you find yourself.
The crisis is an invitation to explore your deeper Self.
Whether you’ve already survived a midlife unraveling, or you think it will never happen to you, enjoy learning about my framework for exploring that point in your life when you’re looking for more than surface level living.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In Midlife, by Murray Stein
The Principle of Individuation, by Murray Stein
Transformations, by Murray Stein
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote about sexual attraction.
My midlife unraveling ended up being driven by the need to reconcile sexuality and spirituality, which lived in my body and psyche as opposing forces. I came to understand that sexual attraction is one way creative intelligence works its magic and that every instance of that twinge of attraction is meaningful. But those twinges of attraction are often, and I would say most of the time, misunderstood as a desire for literal sex.
So, enjoy my take on the deeper meaning of sexual attraction.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I read one of my popular blog posts. It’s titled: My Strange Relationship with Freedom. It’s from January of 2022, sixteen months after I had left my Midwestern hometown to go live in a Florida beach town.
When I arrived back in May of 2020, I was about to get my PhD, I didn’t have a job, and I felt anxiety about using the money from the sale of my home until I could figure out what to do. Oh, and it was the beginning of covid.
I was so lost. I was having an inner battle with my need to know how things would go, and this was what turned out to be my life lesson: to surrender to not knowing how the rest of my life was going to go. To not have a plan and to trust my life would unfold in the right way. Yikes!
And then I had this moment. That’s what the post is about.
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Aaron Baker, dedicated transgender activist and social media influencer. She focuses on sharing the joy of the trans experience, along with clarifying the history, science, and origins of the concepts of gender and sex. Her profiles, @aaronbaker and @aaronbaker.joy, have earned her a significant following, with her videos reaching over 5 million views. Her most popular videos are about parenting LGBTQ children and the problems with Georgia SB 140 (the bill that bans gender affirming care for minors.)
I found Aaron on Instagram. One of her videos came up and I think she was sharing an experience that day of going into a store and getting looks from people. I was moved by her honest and vulnerable sharing of feeling hurt by how others treated her just because of what she looked like. At the same time, her courage was on full display. I started following her, offering encouraging comments, complimenting her on hair, makeup, dresses. Over time, you could see how transitioning to her gender caused her to blossom and be happier. Who could be against that?
Trans people are one of many groups that are targeted and discriminated against simply because they do not conform to social norms.
As with other groups that over time became accepted and embraced, Aaron knows the formula goes something like this: exposure leads to empathy, which leads to acceptance, which leads to improved civil rights outcomes.
On the other hand, we are living through a time that warns us that the rights of once marginalized groups are never to be taken for granted. In fact, much progress for women’s right to self-determination has been reversed and women are dying and suffering because of the violent last stand of rigid and stagnant misogynist beliefs.
So, Aaron is one brave soul. Enjoy our chat!
A great resource for beginners - The Gender Dysphoria Bible
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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This episode fulfills a request by my clients who love this part of our sessions so much they want to be able to take me on the road so to speak.
The 15 minutes includes mindfulness, breath work, visualization and active imagination to welcome images from the unconscious.
You don't need an excuse to try it out, but if you're feeling anxious or overwhelmed, the meditation is designed to help you reset your nervous system. The active imagination component might help you become awarer of the deeper meaning or hidden agenda of your anxiety or other negative emotions.
After the experience, I suggest you move around and then journal or draw to find some deeper meaning. You can work this like a dream. Check out my YouTube video or this podcast episode about exploring dreams, or listen to Chapter 18 of my Soul book about dreams.
Enjoy!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I bring back JD Edwin, a writer of fiction both long and short, including numerous short stories and articles on the art and craft of writing. Our first chat was a year ago, just after JD had published her debut fantasy novel, Headspace. If you’d like to take a listen to our chat, you can find it in Season 1, Episode 2 from February of 2022, the episode is titled: Finding Your Personal Story in Bigger Stories.
If you like the film Divergent or the Netflix series Alice in Borderland, you’ll love Headspace. And now, JD’s prequel is here, Master of the Arena, which you can sum up like this: Nasmi Kol was born a slave. Now, she’s a champion.
After this chat you’ll want to get the backstory at some point. On the other hand, both books stand on their own.
I’ll be sharing the video version of today’s chat on my YouTube channel.
If you want to learn more about Jungian film theory, Listen to me read Chapter 23 from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening?
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I read one of my blog posts about a film experience. I never know when it will happen, when something on the screen will reach into my unconscious and pull out a new insight. It’s so much fun when that happens, and I really do need to write about these experiences more.
Get my take on the film Bullet Train, learn how I found meaning in my own film experience, and learn a little bit about Jungian film theory too.
Enjoy!
Get more about how to explore your own film experiences in Chapter 23 of my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening?
You can listen to me read Chapter 23 here.
Enjoy my blog post about Terminator: Dark Fate
Another post about Alita: Battle Angel
Another post about the film Aquaman
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I bring back Dr. Stacey Shelby, author of Love and Soul-Making: Searching the Depths of Romantic Love; and Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype: A Guide to Becoming a Whole, In-divisible Woman.
If you’d like to listen to our first chat, it’s Season 1, Episode 6, from March of 2022. It’s titled, Relationships as Vessels of Transformation. The link is in the description box, along with links to Stacey’s books.
I love this from the Foreword:
“Romance is first and foremost about the individual’s calling to love soul, their own soul, and the soul of the world, and reciprocally to find soul in, to make soul from, and to serve soul through love’s many expressions.” –Dr. Dylan HoffmanReady to dive into love?
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In this episode, I read a blog post that brings to life the usefulness of exploring dreams in gaining a new insight that could strengthen a relationship. In fact, without the new insight, you might instead undermine the relationship.
Often, I am inspired on my walks as I process the juicy depth psychology coaching sessions I have with my clients.
Everything about how this post came about illuminates how the unconscious seeks to create through us, for our benefit, and ultimately for the benefits of others.
As C.G. Jung suggested, the fate of humanity depends upon the self-reflecting individual, and this is a concrete example of how this works.
So, let’s get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I have a chat with Bill Zaferos, author of Poison Pen, a novel. Bill is an award-winning journalist and his first novel, the one we’re going to talk about today, was what emerged through channeling his mental illness into creativity. I’ll also be sharing the video version of this chat on my YouTube channel.
So, I love this endorsement of Bill’s book: “Poison Pen will appeal to fans of the odd and absurd. Each sentence is loaded with humor, heart, and meaning.”
The unconscious seeks to create, and sometimes we’re a willing partner and often we’re not. Sometimes, our unconscious screams to us through anxiety, illness, an odd combination of annoying events, and it can even take us over.
Today’s episode brings to life the intersection of mental health and creativity. To truly bring form to what wants to flow through us is to surrender to a higher power.
If you’re open, you’ll see yourself in Bill’s story, even if it’s a part of you that’s been banished to a dark corner in your unconscious. I did. That part of you might need to come out and play, or you can at least have a dialogue with it, so it doesn’t torture you. It’s going to find a way out anyway eventually, and it might not be pretty.
So, let’s get started . . .
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In this episode, I’m sharing a podcast version of one of my YouTube videos, specifically, the one where I teach people how to explore their dream images. The YouTube series is called Soul Talk 101. The link to this one is in the description box.
Ready to explore your dream images?
Let's get started . . .
To check out Robert Johnson's book, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth
To watch my YouTube version of this Soul Talk Lesson
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In this episode, I read a blog post I wrote about relationships.
I had met someone three months prior and I felt an odd and intense self-awareness about my own experience as the relationship unfolded.
Of course, a movie showed up to mirror back to me what my unconscious wanted me to explore.
I hope you enjoy what I call my creative memoir writing.
So, let's get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
I'm kind of sad that it's ending, taking you through my book chapter by chapter.
In this episode, I’ll be reading Chapter 25, which is about how to sustain your new practicing of exploring your unconscious, along with a short conclusion.
I wrote this book as a guide, a companion on your life-long journey of coming into deeper and deeper relationship with your Self. By the end, you hopefully are even more curious about the mysteries that reside in your inner world, the 80-90% of you that is unknown to you.
The first phase of digging into your personal complexes is full of, well, complexity. Finding a new truth can make you cringe and feel liberated at the same time. Disrupting an old pattern by having the courage to do what once was unthinkable can provide an adrenaline rush that used to occur only when you were under the influence of alcohol. Allowing yourself to feel vulnerable can lead to heights of pleasure and ecstasy facilitated by deep connection with another human being through which the Divine is flowing. It’s exhausting and exhilarating.
Phase Two is being swept up by archetypal energies that want to flow through you for the benefit of evolving human consciousness. I don’t know what that means for you, but for me it has meant unleashing creativity, through short stories, a podcast, blog posts, and as a depth psychology coach where I hold space for my clients as they explore their unconscious.
Enjoy my last chapter, which I hope inspires you to dig in deeper and follow your intuition about how to sustain your own practice.
So, let’s get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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Today, I’m shaking it up. I’m going to be a little less formal and a little more personal. As you know, I’m an awkward, nerdy over sharer who is obsessed about inspiring people to find deeper meaning in ordinary life events.
What you don’t know is that I’m one of three sisters who are super close in age. We’re alike in so many ways – we’re friendly and curious about people. And we’re also so different.
One sister is an extravert who is talented at acting and singing and could give Martha Stewart a run for her money. After her midlife unraveling, she started a new career as a realtor.
The other sister is an amazing fine artist who found her way to the corporate sector that constantly challenges her authenticity when it comes to her personal mission to bring out the best in people. Part of her midlife unraveling was realizing this and now she’s written a book about it.
And then there’s me. I felt overshadowed by both sisters’ artistic talent, but I’ve always had an entrepreneurial spirit. Not until midlife unraveling would I be able to reconcile powerful opposing forces inside me that unleashed my buried creativity.
Even though three sisters were raised by the same parents, we each have lived different manifestations of our mother and father complexes.
And one thing we all have in common is a version of not being quite good enough. That plays out in different ways. Self-doubt, perfectionism, self-consciousness, fears of not following through.
I got the idea for this conversation when my sister Chris and I laughed as we accepted the fact that she would always have self-doubt and I would always be self-conscious. Even C.G. Jung said that we never really get rid of complexes, those stubborn patterns of thinking, behaving, and reacting that developed in childhood to get us to adulthood.
We will circle around them, and as we come into deeper relationship with these difficult parts of ourselves, they lose power over us, and they can become our companions. When they show up, it’s like another invitation to find even deeper meaning when it comes to our purpose.
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So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I’ve brought back Vlado Solc, Jungian Analyst and psychotherapist practicing in Milwaukee, WI, my hometown. Vlado is a co-author of the book, Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology. After listening to this episode, you might want to listen to our last chat about his book in Episode 26 of Season 1. It’s titled Self-Reflection in a Time of Conspiracy Theories.
All along, you’ve been learning about Jung’s theory of individuation, which is the framework for exploring your unconscious. I didn’t start using that exact term until my last interview with Dr. Joli Hamilton. That episode is number 48 and titled, Staying Committed to Self When You’re in Relationship. It was a fun conversation about individuation not only being an individual experience, but individuation of a relationship too.
So today, we’re going to go deeper into Jung’s theory of individuation in a way that you’ll be able to relate to and will enhance your practice of self-reflection.
The foundation of my chat with Vlado is an article he wrote titled, Three Ways of Why.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I read my new blog post, A Depth Approach to Transitioning to the New Year.
It's that time of year again. The momentum and anticipation started in the weeks leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. For some, anxiety about family sets in quickly and for others it is indeed the most wonderful time of the year.
Before we know it, we will find ourselves in the psychological space of new beginnings without really thinking too much about it.
Between the old year and the new year, between one version of you and another, there is a doorway, a threshold, that you didn’t even know was there.
Some doorways can be easy to walk through with a little awareness and a new insight, feeling like a light-weight aluminum screen door. Other doorways can seem closed to you, feeling like a huge heavy wooden door protecting something ancient.
So, how can you, right now, in the next couple months, bring a depth approach to transitioning to a new year psychologically?
As always, my own experience inspired this post. My stories are meant to bring concepts to life and entertain.
So, let's get started . . .
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. In this chapter, I’ll be reading Chapter 22: What Movie Are You Living? I encourage you to go deeper than anyone has likely taken you into your psychological type.
If you still haven’t taken the inventory and gotten your four letters – mine are INFJ – go to www.16personalities.com. This chapter offers three reasons for you to go deeper, especially into your blind spots, the functions that are in your shadow and come out during times of stress or conflict.
One last thing I think you’ll find interesting is research about the connection between psychological type and spirituality.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I’m excited to have my depth psychology colleague Dr. Joli Hamilton back for a conversation about staying connected to your inner being, your Self, what you might call Soul within relationship. Following that inner voice as it prompts you to grow is difficult enough when it’s just you but staying committed to your journey to grow and unfold is even more difficult when you’re in a relationship.
For those of you who didn’t catch my first interview with Joli, click here to listen to Episode 14, and we talked about the deeper meaning of sexuality.
Individuation is a process, a journey, a way of life, an attitude, that involves becoming aware of how your unconscious is luring you with clues, like a siren’s song, to shine a light on what your Self believes you’re ready to explore.
You've heard me say that we relate through projection, and that projection offers clues about what in your unconscious is ready to be explored. This is part of the individuation journey.
Listening to Joli’s most recent episode of her podcast, Playing with Fire, she got me thinking about whether individuation is even possible without projection, which happens through relationships with others.
It would make sense that individuation happens alongside or even because of relationships. Could it be that without relationships, we can't really individuate?
I don't know the answer to that, but that’s where we’re going in today’s conversation with Dr. Joli Hamilton.
Oh, and I encourage you to take Joli's quiz at www.joliquiz.com about whether you're ready to open up your relationship, or maybe just use it as a way to think about being creative in your monogamous relationship.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. In this chapter, I’ll be reading Chapter 22: What Movie Are You Living?
Have you ever been obsessed with a movie or an online series? Are you like me and find yourself going back to the theatre to see certain films eight times? The first time that happened I felt exhilarated by the feeling of being pulled by some mysterious force to rewatch Aquaman of all movies again and again and again.
Did you know that the field of psychology emerged at the same time as the invention of the moving picture? Could it be that we desperately crave exploring ourselves through what’s projected on the screen, the stage, through music, or on our laptop? Could it be that when we most think we’re choosing to be entertained, our ego loosens enough for certain images to reach into our psyche and secretly whisper something to our Soul that the ego cannot hear?
Most recently, I made myself go see Bullet Train because Brad Pitt was in it (click here to read my blog post). For most of the movie I felt bored by the nonstop realistic violence that felt animated. Three quarters of the way through the movie, I got it. Oh my gosh, Brad Pitt represents the self-reflecting human I talk about all the time.
Enjoy listening to me teach you a little about Jungian Film Theory and share how I came to understand my personal experiences with film.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. In Chapter 22 – The Archetype Behind Your Complex – we learn that at the core of each complex is a universal human need.
As you begin exploring your unconscious, you will gain personal insights first, and this chapter is about taking the next step, and connecting those insights to greater universal forces that want to use you as a vessel through which to create what doesn’t exist right now in the form of ideas, inventions, and other creative acts meant to help humanity survive and evolve.
You as an individual are that important. So, enjoy this chapter. I hope it inspires you to become more serious about building a self-reflection practice. You won’t see it happen, but the insights of millions of people will begin to rise into collective awareness, and that is how humanity will evolve.
Let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Resources:
Re-Visioning Psychology, by James Hillman
Goddesses in Every Woman, by Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD
Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype, by Stacey Shelby, PhD
The Sacred Prostitute, by Nancy Qualls-Corbett
Exploring Women's Experience of Reconciling Sexuality and Spirituality: Through the Lens of Jungian Theory of Individuation, by Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. In this episode, I’ll be reading Chapter 21, where we dig a little deeper into your personal shadow and take on the tricky topic of projection.
You’ve probably come across the concept of projection over the past couple years. It’s become a part of daily conversation. Projection is easier to see in another individual than in yourself, and it’s easiest to see in extreme versions, for example when one person or group grounds their position in righteous language and extreme and warped interpretations of religious doctrine.
The projection onto the Other, the demonizing of the Other, reveals the lack of capacity for self-awareness, self-reflection, and managing the tension between what they know and something unknown.
The root of the projection is fear and the inability to face something in themselves that they have projected onto someone that acts as a scapegoat.
Unfortunately, when more and more individuals get swept up in a projection, this can happen on a collective level. German citizens are more aware than most of how one can get swept up and end up participating in acts that go against what they profess to be their values.
What do we do about this? Well, the collective is made up of a collection of individuals. Humans relate through projection. Every single one of us is attracted or repelled at varying degrees by forces in our unconscious that sometimes are beginning to come out of the shadow.
It can get confusing, which is why self-reflection is critical! It is clearer than ever that C.G. Jung was correct in saying the fate of humanity depends upon the self-reflecting individual who can see their own potential darkness.
Romantic relationships where a couple is swept up as if they’ve been overtaken by body snatchers, whether they belong to us personally or others you’ve watched, are a wonderful way to learn more about your unconscious and to consider them as mini version of collective projection.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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Did you know that your body has a subtle physiology, that your cells express rhythmic movement that is fundamental to life? Did you know that when we are in stillness, we are part of the universal stillness from which life evolves?
In this episode, we’re going to deepen into the idea of wellness during my conversation with Jane Shaw, a beautiful kind soul whose presence whether in person, video, or voice, feels like an invitation to become more aware of our inner world, to express our true Self, which Jane surmises is our purpose in life.
Jane holds an M.A. in Economics from the University of Edinburgh and an M.A. in Jungian and Archetypal Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. That’s how we met. She is a registered craniosacral therapist and SSP provider, and Jane is founder and director of the Elmfield Institute at the Shaw family's Elmfield Estate, a Centre for Sustainable Health.
So, I invite you to settle into stillness and allow Jane’s subtle physiology to connect with yours.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Links to check out:
Elmfield Estate
Jane Shaw
Online courses
Soul Talk 101: Taking an Elevator Into Your Body
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
Chapters 1-15 explored the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was about a technique called active imagination. Chapter 18 was about exploring dreams, and in Chapter 19, you were introduced to the concept that your unconscious lives in your body. In Chapter 20 we’re going to learn one of the fastest ways of exploring your unconscious, through your complexes.
Once you dig in, you’ll need a sense of humor about what you can now see that you couldn’t before. Getting to know your complexes is like meeting siblings you never knew you had. They’re a part of you, but you didn’t know they existed, and they eerily feel familiar.
Like my prison complex. After I explored my mother wound, I realized I always need an escape route wherever I am. And I do not like to be trapped in other people’s ideas, which is why I am happiest being an entrepreneur and doing my own thing. But this tendency had another side to it. It explained why I love cozy places, like bars where I feel part of the family, or houses that are smaller. It’s like feeling suffocating by my mother’s need for my behavior to prove she was a better mother than her mother was countered by a need for me to experience being in the womb in a way that felt comforting, not suffocating. A re-enactment of sorts.
This is the mystery of complexes, and I hope you’re intrigued.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S. Check out my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
Chapters 1-15 explored the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was about a technique called active imagination. Chapter 18 was about exploring dreams, and in Chapter 19, we’re going to learn how to harness the wisdom our bodies hold.
If you’re a woman or identify as a woman, you are aware of the complex nature of your relationship with your body. More and more men or those who identify as men are experiencing the same sort of love/hate relationship with their bodies too. Patriarchal systems and capitalism love this, the systems feed off hierarchy and ranking and self-hatred.
This all makes sense when you realize that the body, especially women’s bodies, represent the feminine, which was devalued by patriarchy, and then propped up by warped interpretations of religious doctrine.
Your relationship with your body and how your view of other people’s bodies is this deep whether you are aware or not.
Just as memories and trauma are stored in our brain’s neural grooves, all this is also stored in the body. Your injuries, illnesses, mental health issues can be seen as metaphors operating in various parts of your life. Suffer from asthma? What is it in your life that is keeping you from getting a deep breath. Digestion issues? What in your life can’t you accept, digest anymore? Carrying excess weight for no good reason? What burden can’t you let go of?
You know what they say about your body being a temple for your essence. When you explore your relationship with your body, you automatically feel more compassion for yourself, which leads to having standards for what you deserve.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S. Check out my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, we take on the huge topic of addiction and trauma with my guest Alex Castro Croy, Director and President of Life Recovery Centers in Northglenn and Denver, Colorado.
Alex is a licensed professional counselor, licensed addictions counselor, and a bilingual EMDR certified-trauma informed therapist. What a background: 15 years combined experience as a drug court probation officer and addiction treatment provider. Alex is well known as a trainer in the US and internationally, addressing topics of trauma, addiction, self-care, and implementation of Jungian psychology in the addiction/trauma field. Oh, and Alex is an adjunct professor at Metropolitan State University at the graduate and undergraduate level.
One more thing. Alex is also working on his PhD in depth psychology, which is how I met him. I can’t believe that was seven years ago.
For those of you who struggle with addiction and for those who have loved ones who struggle, I know you will appreciate this conversation, which is full of depth, compassion, and specific ways to think differently about a topic that affects so many people.
I encourage you to wonder what addicts and addiction are mirroring back to all of us.
Let's get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Alex's TEDx Talk on YouTube
We've Had a Hundred Years of Therapy, and the World is Getting Worse, James Hillman
Re-Visioning Psychology, James Hillman
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
Just to remind you, Chapters 1-15 explored all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images, and Chapter 17 was all about a technique called active imagination. In Chapter 18, we’re going to learn how to tend dreams using active imagination. We’ll start with recurring dreams, then I’ll walk you through how to invite an imaginary council to help with a question or a problem in your life, and finally I’ll share my spin on past life regression, which doesn’t require believing in past lives.
So, let's get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Check out my mini lessons on YouTube
How to Explore Your Dreams
Engaging Your Inner Child
Talking to Your Anxiety
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Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
You made it! Chapters 1-15 explored all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention. Chapter 16 taught you the associations method to explore your images. It’s the foundation for all the other methods.
In Chapter 17, we’re going to learn about a technique C.G. Jung named active imagination. Simply, it is using your imagination to engage with the images you are exploring. If you’re open and can relax int a deeper level of consciousness, active imagination can prompt powerful insights and guidance as to what your image has to do with a certain area of your life. If you’re creative, you might catch on quickly and get the connection between exploring your unconscious and creativity.
So, let's get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Check out my Soul Talk 101 mini lessons on my YouTube Channel, including these two:
Engaging Your Inner Child
Talking to Your Anxiety
P.S. Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, I have a chat with Jennifer Day, the founder of LifeShine Design. Jen is an emotional wellness coach, and her combination of background, life experiences and formal training reflects her appreciation for the meandering nature of coming into deeper relationship with your Self, or inner being.
In the language of depth psychology, Jen’s approach to working with clients expresses honor for the mysterious feminine approach to the journey to Self. The feminine (not meaning woman, more a style of consciousness, an inner feminine) is meandering, not linear, rather she is patient and strategic as she sorts through the past, and she prompts or sometimes forces a fiery alchemical process of inner transformation. Eventually, the feminine will require the masculine partner (not meaning man) to bring form to the new creation, which could be a new insight or way of thinking and behaving, a new career, innovative idea, or artistic expression.
I love Jen’s use of creativity as she empowers her clients to come into deeper relationship with their inner being and this changes the way they show up in the world. Jen doesn’t box in creativity, calling it therapy or art, or anything really. Jen allows creativity to pull her clients closer to themselves, and ultimately their creative expression returns to the world as either something private and/or a contribution to the collective.
Follow Jen on Instagram and Facebook. Let's get started . . .
Check out more at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster, Blogger
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In this episode, I read a recent blog post: Still Stewing About the Last Fight with Your Romantic Partner? A New Framework for Finding the Deeper Purpose of Relationships.
I was contemplating how to begin a depth psychology coaching session with a couple. There had been an unusually dramatic conflict the week before. Like a volcanic eruption, something hot and fiery had been unleashed and days later the space between the couple was still filled with simmering lava. They both felt confused, hurt, and unsure about what it all meant, but they had enough awareness to know they didn’t have the proper tools to explore the deeper meaning of the conflict. Good for them!
I wondered how I would lay a proper foundation for the discussion, one that disarmed attachment to an old perspective, one that would likely be defensive in nature, for good reason of course. We’re all just little children in big adult bodies after all.
It suddenly came to me in the form of these three words.
- Purpose
- Projection
- Permanence
So, let's get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
You made it! Now that you’ve learned all the different ways your unconscious tries to get your attention, and hopefully you reflected or journaled along the way about a dream or two, or found how your mother or father complex is getting in your way in your marriage, or you’re wondering about the hidden meaning of an odd obsession or a recurring sexual fantasy, how do you explore the images and find some useful meaning?
This chapter, which teaches you how to find associations, lays the foundation for all the methods that follow. Also, I recently added a video to my YouTube Channel, it’s a mini lesson for how to explore your dreams. You can get to it via my website www.deborahlukovich.com.
So, let’s get started . . .
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
In Chapter 16, I give you a whole other way to think about the purpose behind your mind wandering, or why certain memories come up, and the sneaky way our unconscious uses fantasies, especially those of a sexual nature.
I used to think we created fantasies, sort of like people wrote a script for something they wanted to experience, but maybe that’s because I’m a recovering control freak. We don’t create fantasies, rather they are spontaneous images that sneak out of our unconscious to get our attention. For example, sexual fantasies often have nothing to do with literal sex, and the people in the fantasy most often represent a part of us that is seeking to become intimate with our conscious self and integrated into our waking life.
So, let’s get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, we’re going to talk about my favorite topic, sexuality, which is different than sex. I know you'll enjoy my chat with another PhD friend, Dr. Shaun Miller, who earned his PhD in philosophy from Marquette University. His focus is the philosophy of sex, relationships, sexuality education, gender, and how to increase well-being through sexuality.
I love this quote by C.G. Jung, one of the founders of depth psychology.: “With the exception of religious longings, nothing challenges modern man more consciously and personally than sex.”
Like spirituality, the archetypal energy of sexuality is so huge and complex and mysterious and wields so much power over us, that any attempt to wrap your arms around the smallest component of the topic needs to be done with humility.
And the more people try to control and limit others’ expression and exploration for personal truth as they relate to these two most powerful instincts – sexuality and spirituality – the more energy that gathers in the personal and collective shadow, energy that finds its way into the world via destruction in the form of sexual violence, whether within intimate relationships, religious or other communities, or on a collective level, such as human trafficking and the mass killing of souls through rape.
Resources:
Shaun's dissertation
Shaun's paper on sexual autonomy and consent
Article on heterosexual male sexuality
Learn more about Shaun at www.shaunmiller.blog
Follow Shaun on Instagram at @coffeeandresearch
The book, As Lovers Do, by Marc Beneteau
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Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening!
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster, Blogger
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
Chapter 13 is about complexes, which simply are patterns of behavior and thinking that are rooted in childhood, and many patterns that were once neutral and helpful can suddenly become problematic.
Because complexes get triggered during times of stress, disproportionate emotional reactions make it difficult to catch them before we say or do something we’ll later regret. If we haven’t identified our parental complexes, it means we’re not looking out for them, and when we get swept up a false sense of righteousness takes over. During these episodes, all one can hope for is a quick end to what later will be remembered as an embarrassing display of what seems like a shadow personality.
I remember when I found my mother complex. It was a startling realization. My marriage had already begun to fall apart, and as much as I attempted to manage my stress, the doorway was open for unknown parts of me to demand attention.
So, let’s get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
Chapter 14 is about relationships. Once I knew I was getting divorced, a doorway opened for a younger man to unleash some pent-up desire. When he moved on, I couldn’t get any relief for my unleashed desire, so I self-consciously hit the online dating scene.
Each of the ten men over six months challenged me in specific ways. It was as if I had signed up for a college course on how to relate to men post-divorce. It all ended abruptly, and the following six weeks were a respite for my next course, which involved surrendering to archetypal forces that were seeking to use the relationship between the next younger man and me for its own purposes.
I could see ironies and knew there was meaning, but I didn't know what it was until it had ended as dramatically as it had begun.
Now, I have too much humility to impose any man-made expectations onto my encounters with anyone who crosses my path, even my last eight-month encounter with a man, the man who was a former rockstar. The relationship continued to challenge conventional notions of what a romantic relationship even is.
So, let’s get started.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. Chapter 12 is about how your natural psychological type is another way your unconscious speaks.
Digging into your psychological type helps to explain why you respond to events in certain ways. Becoming consciously competent about a strength allows you to use it more strategically, and becoming aware of a weakness can help you take back what you’re projecting onto other people, making you a better human being.
If you’ve done the Meyers Briggs, you have only scratched the surface. Simply using the tool as validation of the way you are isn’t that helpful, in fact, some use their type as an excuse for certain behaviors. The most helpful way to explore your type is to focus on the functions that are in your shadow, because during times of stress, these functions will sometimes take over and it might not go so well.
Resources:
If you haven't taken the inventory, I like this site: www.16personalities.com.
Psychological Types: General Description of the Types, by C.G. Jung
Personality Types: Jung's Typology, by Daryl Sharp
The Experience of Introversion: An Integration of Phenomenological, Empirical, and Jungian Approaches, by Kenneth Joel Shapiro
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P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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My book seeks to empower you with the knowledge of how the unconscious speaks as well as a framework for exploring those messages, which come in many forms, including emotions and how we use feelings to label those emotions. This is the topic of Chapter 11.
Family gatherings are great opportunities to explore the deeper meaning of your emotions. What are your family gatherings like? For many, the predictability of drama creates great stress long before the holiday, Thanksgiving for example. You know your father is going to light that match, and your brother will oblige by taking the bait. It’s almost like they can’t help it. They really can’t. You’ll tell yourself that you can try to manage the tension or that you’ll try to ignore it, and you can’t seem to stop your predictable sobbing, which is the only thing that disrupts the movie that you’re all involuntarily living.
enjoy this introduction to how your emotions have more meaning than you realize.
Let’s get started . . .
Blog post: A One-Night Stand With Shame.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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In this episode, we’re going to talk about corporations – through a depth psychology lens of course. Dr. Elizabeth Martin is Senior Vice President leading Strategy & Innovation for Optum Serve, the federal health serveices business of both Optum and UnitedHealth Group. Elizabeth is licensed to practice law in both New Mexico & Texas. She is an attorney, former CEO of a $430 million managed care company and business consultant specializing in operational management and systems building. Elizabeth received her law degree from Boston College, her business degree from Creighton University and a PhD in Cultural Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute.
You’ve probably never thought about your relationship to this unnatural entity that through a controversial Supreme Court decision referred to as Citizens United was granted natural and inalienable individual human rights that once were not even granted to certain human beings in our country. There are lots of experts out there who have illuminated how this has wreaked havoc in all sorts of ways.
But you know me. This interview is not about what is consciously known, rather it is a discussion about what the collective unconscious is trying to make known for its own purpose, which is also unknown.
Enjoy going deep into you love/hate relationship with this entity that is an extension of us.
To get a pdf of the research that secured Elizabeth's PhD in depth psychology, email me dlukovich@gmail.com.
Working with your dreams is a great way to begin exploring this topic on your own. Lucky for you, I just uploaded a new lesson for me Soul Talk 101 YouTube series: How to Explore Your Dreams.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to self-reflect.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster, Blogger
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In Chapter 10, I talk about another way your unconscious speaks to you – through bodily symptoms and injuries.
During one of my somatic depth psychology courses – soma means body – I was intrigued by an active imagination exercise offered in one of the textbooks. In the exercise, my imagination took me in an elevator down to my stomach, my womb. When the elevator door opened, I felt the warmth and humidity and saw the dark moist caverns like those in a volcano. As I walked and felt my way through the darkness, at my feet were slow moving rivers of lava with swirling colors of dark red, orange, yellow and brown.
My emotions included caution and curiosity, and when I rode the elevator back up to consciousness, my first thought was, “Wow, there’s a lot going on in there.”
Click here o try out the elevator exercise.
Listen to find out what happened. Enjoy and share! Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
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Enjoy my chat with Vlado Solc about what's beneath the surface of fundamentalism and conspiracy theories. He is the author of (written in partnership with George Didier). Dark Religion: Fundamentalism from the Perspective of Jungian Psychology.
Links to resources mentioned in the interview:
Vlado's book, Dark Religion
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, by Yuval Noah Harari
The Red Book, by C.G. Jung
The Battle for God, by Karen Armstrong
Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice, by C.G. Jung
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to self-reflect.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Depth Psychology Coach, Author, Podcaster, Blogger
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In this episode, I read a recent blog post titled: What is Generation Z Mirroring Back to Us? I wrote it after a couple conversations with Mom’s about their young adult Gen Z sons. I have two Generation Z young adults myself, a son, and a daughter.
The phrase tone-deaf comes to mind if you’re surprised about why the young folks coming of age right now struggle with anxiety, lack of motivation, and focus. This blog post explores what you may be projecting onto the generation that seems to be the place where the ultimate buck stops – dismantling patriarchal systems that benefit the few over the many, and the survival or death of the planet.
Sure, tell me I’m being dramatic, but decades of hiding in comfort and convenience have gotten us to this point, the point where my own children have gone from feeling optimistic to carrying the burden left by blindness or arrogance many of the so-called elders and leaders are showing in the face of the climax of the clinging onto old systems. The clinging is a reflection that these systems indeed are going down, although how fast is unknown, as is what will replace them. Hence, the anxiety.
Are you open to looking at things through a different lens? This capacity seems to be rarer and rarer these days. Listen on if you dare.
Let’s get started.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In Chapter 9, I talk about another way your unconscious speaks to you – through obsessions and symptoms like anxiety and even depression.
When I moved down to my beach town, fantasies of reconnecting with a man with whom I had spent a couple nights with and felt deep connection, emerged and plagued me. I saw his likeness everywhere, and I became obsessed with him.
Ahh. But I considered that my obsession was perhaps about something other than this literal man. My obsession eventually took the form of my first short story, The Fantasy, and I began to see that this man symbolized parts of me that were beginning to be expressed.
The moral of the story is that there is meaning in your obsessions, but it’s not what you think. Explore your obsessions, try to find the metaphor and where it’s playing out in your life.
And have fun! Writing my first short story was terrifying and exciting at the same time.
So, let’s get started.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I chat with Dr. Christy Gardner about float tanks and float therapy. You might have heard about it or even tried it out, or maybe it’s a regular part of your self-care. For many, it’s a great way to relax or even escape from the over-stimulating nature of living in today’s world.
But you know me. There’s something deeper going on in that float tank and looking at it through the lens of depth psychology is a great way to explore what that deeper part of you might be trying to communicate through the experience.
Christy shares her story about how a childhood preoccupation with water and fears about the swimming pool drain led to exploring some hidden trauma related to her birth experience, how she was led to floating and eventually being called to study depth psychology and research the deeper aspects of the experience.
In addition to being a scholar, Dr. Gardner is a freelance copyeditor for the C. G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles journal: Psychological Perspectives, and a dissertation editor. Christy says she enjoy guiding students with their concept papers, proposals, dissertations, and other academic writing through the final manuscript.
More information:
Instagram: @psychesbath
Twitter: @psychesbath
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-lee-gardner-phd-169b175/
Prague Conference Link: (not sure which link is best so included both the bio/abstract and actual video link of the lecture)
Abstract/Bio: https://www.itcprague2017.org/speakers/christy-lee-gardner.html
Video/Lecture: https://slideslive.com/38903285/psyches-bath-flotationrest-as-a-journey-toward-wholeness?ref=folder-9336
The Deep Self, by John Cunningham Lilly
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In Chapter 8, I talk about dreams, which C.G. Jung said were a direct route to the unconscious. There is no fixed meaning to dreams, and the goal is not to allow the ego to interpret or dismiss. You don’t need any of that to benefit by exploring your dreams. Think of working with dreams to prompt those things in your unconscious to come out and play with you.
It wasn’t until years after my midlife unraveling that I realized the meaning of my dream about my crumbling teeth wasn’t about my life falling apart, rather it was telling me I had to allow my life to fall apart.
Drawing a dream where I fell backwards down a hill in the dark but felt safer than I had ever felt in my life ended up giving me the confidence to get swept up in my first post-divorce relationship, which was full of irony and overwhelming feelings of desire I hadn’t felt before.
My dreams continue to be a companion as I plot out the next phase of my life. Sometimes they’re reassuring, sometimes they point out that I’m going back to my manic self, and other times they are prophetic.
The messages are being sent by a deeper part of me, something transcendent, what some call God, a higher moral authority.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
dreams #soul #unconscious #depthpsychology #therapy #coaching #depthpsychologycoach #midlife #newbook #midlife #relationships #spirituality #healing #selflove #anxiety #transformation
In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
In this book, I teach the language of the unconscious to help you notice the subtle messages you Soul is using to get your attention. Then I offer you a framework for decoding and finding meaning in the messages. Insights come fast at times, and sometimes take years to grasp the full meaning. My personal stories are meant to help you connect to the concepts and to entertain you too. We can’t take this too seriously.
In Chapter 7, I talk about something you’ll intuitively understand right away–synchronicity. It’s one way our unconscious reaches out to us. Synchronicity describes this spark of insight that happens when something in your inner world coincides with something in the external world that has meaning. It’s a meaningful coincidence. It feels uncanny, mysterious, even numinous.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
synchronicity #soul #unconscious #depthpsychology #therapy #coaching #depthpsychologycoach #dreams #newbook #midlife #relationships #spirituality
In this episode, you’re going to get a treat, a hands-on experience with active imagination. I also created a video version, which you can find on my YouTube channel.
Wait . . . don't go. Do you feel trapped in a dysfunctional relationship or toxic work culture? Are you having a difficult time overcoming a pattern of thinking, one that resurfaces feelings of unworthiness? Or, have you already shed all that crap but you're not sure what you want and where to go.
If you can say yes to any of these questions, this episode is for you. Are you brave enough to try something new? By definition that means you gotta embrace awkwardness and vulnerability.
So,
Active imagination is a technique which was developed by C.G. Jung, one of the founders of depth psychology. I’ve been doing a lot of inner child work with clients lately, so I thought I’d focus on that for this active imagination exercise.
Whether you’re stuck or not, doing inner child work always brings new insights. For me it’s not about re-experiencing painful memories, rather it’s more about reaching back and grabbing or integrating something that can help you get unstuck or move forward on a path that isn’t clear yet. I hope you enjoy this episode and share it with others. Also, if you’d like me to do more hands-on activities here or on my YouTube channel, send me a message to dlukovich@gmail.com.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who (Amazon).
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In Chapter 6, I introduce you to the language of the unconscious. The psyche or the Soul speaks through the unconscious in images, which are not just visual. I call them impressions. This chapter introduces you to symbols. If you're looking for an alternative to Amazon, you can now purchase a paperback at www.bookshop.org.
When I was in the throes of my midlife unraveling, I was drawn to the spiral symbol. At fifty, I got my first tattoo, a one-inch version of the spiral image. It was on my right wrist, and I noticed I used my finger to trace the spiral back and forth, bath and forth. It was comforting for some reason, a reminder that there was purpose in my unraveling.
C.G. Jung suggested the spiral was an effective representation of the death and rebirth process that begins when one consciously embarks on the path of coming into relationship with your unconscious, what he named individuation. A spiral drill bit or gardening tool is an even better image, because it illustrates the repeated process of digging and bringing up of the soil, then digging becomes a little easier each time the tool is plunged into the ground.
An initial insight can feel mind blowing, and then some time goes by, and an old pattern is triggered again. But you will never experience it the same way, the old wound, mother complex for example, will have less power over you, and you’ll catch it faster, and you’ll go deeper and find more meaning and even more powerful insights. It gets super interesting.
So, let’s get started.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, we’re going to be talking about yoga but not in the way you think. I have a conversation with Julie Breedlove Montemerlo, yoga teacher, music lover, mother, wife, optimist, marketing professional, and constant student of life.
What do you know about yoga? It’s not religion as some fear, rather it’s a framework for approaching life. It’s an Eastern practice that found its way to the West because it filled a gap by providing something that people were hungry for.
C.G. Jung, one of the founders of depth psychology, saw Eastern practices as a complement to the West’s overly masculine approach to life. The West’s focus on the external world vs. the East’s focus on the inner world he saw as incomplete on their own.
What does this have to do with yoga? Many people find C.G. Jung and yoga at a pivotal time in their lives, a time when the one-sided masculine approach to life doesn’t serve them anymore.
There seems to be a relationship between my experience of yoga and the phases of my midlife journey. I haven’t figured it all out yet, but you know how I love finding meaning and sharing it with others.
I think this conversation will be a gift for you.
To learn more about Julie, visit www.wisewaveswellness.com, and follow Julie on Instagram @wisewaveswellness.
More on the eight limbs:
https://www.yogajournal.com/yoga-101/spirituality/eight-limbs-of-yoga/
https://www.ekhartyoga.com/articles/philosophy/the-8-limbs-of-yoga-explained
Introductory articles about sound baths:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/tune-in-and-chill-out-what-are-sound-baths-and-why-you-should-try-one/2017/05/02/e74c697c-2b7c-11e7-a616-d7c8a68c1a66_story.html
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a36341664/what-is-sound-bath/
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-are-sound-baths-4783501
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Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who.
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
In this book, I teach the language of the unconscious, how it speaks, how to decode and find meaning in the messages, and a little kick in the butt to make sure you take steps to apply these insights to your life.
In Chapter 5, I get you thinking about the larger forces that shape you. We tend to think we know who we are and why we believe what we believe, but our lives exist within the context of the collective. You carry patterns of thinking and behaving that are rooted in childhood, and your ancestral patterns are rooted in even larger forces, and even globally, we exist within social organizing systems that are beyond our control and have shaped our assumptions about many things.
This chapter offers newer theories based on research that has not trickled down to the mainstream. Pay attention to moments of defensiveness or automatic dismissal of what you read, and take this as an opportunity to sharpen your critical thinking skills and explore the source of potential resistance. There’s treasure there and a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of yourself and the world waiting for you.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Make sure you’re settled in and then take a big cleansing breath. In this episode, we’re taking on something huge, what could be described as a global spiritual crisis, which is taking form as growing collective trauma from intensifying anxiety due to an onslaught of global concerns.
My guest is Dr. Teresa Nowack, a Jungian and archetypal research psychologist specializing in imaginal processes that transport her client’s fears and anxieties into an inner world of soul. Dr. Tree’s psychological perspective is layered with ecopsychology, where the world’s soul is believed to be projected to us with its own perspective to behold.
There couldn’t be a better time for people to learn about Dr. Tree’s research, which was to witness and engage spontaneous images of global fear (like those in dreams). These images were seen as glimpses of intelligence emerging from the unknown psyche and acting as messengers of the soul, during a time of spiritual crisis.
I hope you enjoy, share with others and are intrigued by the deeper meaning of the fear, anxiety, or panic that might be active in your life or hiding just beneath the surface of consciousness. As became clear in Tree’s research, within the chaos and fear is hidden a small treasure of meaning and guidance for finding your footing in what can feel disorienting.
Learn more about Dr. Tree's business and even get a pdf of her dissertation at www.Imaginalspace.com.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. You can now buy it on www.bookshop.org if you're looking for an alternative to you know who.
Follow me on Instagram @dlukovich and Twitter @deblukovich or become a friend on Facebook. Check out Soul Talk 101, a series of mini-lessons on how to explore your unconscious offered through my YouTube Channel.
Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
Exploring your unconscious is like playing detective!
In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
In this book, I teach the language of the unconscious, how it speaks, how to decode the messages, how to find meaning in the messages, and a little kick in the butt to make sure you take steps to apply these insights to your life. To make it as relatable as possible, I weave in personal stories from all the stages of my midlife phase so far.
In Chapter 4, I share a framework or approach you can use to work with your unconscious. The way of the unconscious is anything but linear, but the components of this framework can be your consistency.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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What happens when two over-sharing depth psychologists get together and talk about sex, love, and soul-making? A safe space opens up for cultivating a sense of curiosity, depth, appreciation for the tension between the literal and symbolic, and lots of giggles.
In this episode, I have a conversation with Dr. Joli Hamilton, best-selling author, TEDx speaker, and certified sexuality educator. Joli holds a doctorate in depth psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute (we were cohort buddies), where she studied the impact of jealousy on relationships.
I love how Joli describes her relationship coaching services as being for couples who color outside the lines, helping her clients experience the freedom, deep security, and sexual fulfillment that comes when they shift from plain-old monogamy to more. Whether it’s polyamory, ethical nonmonogamy, or creative monogamy, Joli guides people out of the standard script and into the life individuals were meant to have. The impact of Joli’s approach is about more than relationships, it’s about an individuation journey for all involved, the journey to becoming exactly who you were born to be, including as a lover.
I hope you enjoy and will share with others. Whether you're in a committed relationship or ready to explore something more expansive, you'll think about it all differently. There's something in this conversation for everyone, I promise.
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services and free mini-lessons.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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Are you learning to live life in a new way? Whether by choice or circumstance, anxiety is a critical partner on the journey to create a new life.
In this episode, I share a story I posted on my blog last year, May of 2021, and it’s also my most viewed post. I was coming up on the one-year anniversary of having picked up and left my Midwest hometown and old life behind to start a new one in a Florida beach town.
Getting the notice from my apartment leasing office about renewing my lease unleashed a whole new level of anxiety. Re-reading this story makes me laugh, and I think you’ll be entertained. Some of you might even find yourself in it, especially if you’re being pushed to expand but you can’t see how it’s all going to play out.
I hope you enjoy it and will share it with others. You can find it on my blog at www.deborahlukovich.com. Like it, leave a comment, share it with others, subscribe and become a fan!
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
My book teaches the reader how the unconscious speaks and brings those concepts to life through my personal stories of midlife unraveling, reconstruction, healing personal wounds related to sexuality and spirituality, and the anxiety of living life in a completely new way.
Chapter 3 lays out some terms I use, some of them academic, and others more common but I use them in a more symbolic way. We’re getting there, the juicy part is coming.
Also, here are some of the books I mentioned, and most with links to www.bookshop.org, which supports local book stores.
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung, 1989)
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (Jung, 1955)
On the Nature of the Psyche (Jung, 1954/1972)
The Living God and Our Living Psyche; What Christians Can Learn from Carl Jung (Ulanov, 2008)
The Creation of Consciousness: Jung’s Myth for Modern Man(Edinger, 1975/1984)
Picturing God (Ulanov, 2002)
Re-Visioning Psychology (Hillman, 1992)
Check out more of my work at www.deborahlukovich.com, where you can also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I have a lively conversation with Alex Luber, licensed professional counselor and fellow Jungian enthusiast.
With a degree in philosophy and practitioner of yoga therapy, he was already unconventional, and then Alex enrolled in the Jungian Psychotherapist program at the Carl Jung Institute in Chicago. He says Depth, Existentialism, Feminism, and Hermeneutical Psychology are home base for him.
As a millennial, he brings a sensitivity to coming of age right now during the accelerated dismantling of patriarchal systems. We chat about how the modern therapeutic model holds individuals responsible for the anxiety caused by collective institutions that are "sick." We also chat about Alex's journey of relating to his own feminine and masculine, and our concluding message is optimistic in that we assure listeners that they will be rewarded for doing the work of coming into relationship with their unconscious–their new awareness will be a seed for revolution in the collective.
I hope you enjoy and will share with others. You don't have to call it therapy as Alex suggests, rather just getting to know the pieces of yourself that haven't been allowed to be revealed to the world.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I read Chapter 2 of my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. I explain how the layout of the book, the importance of journaling both in words and images, and how living in a new way requires the death or letting go of perspectives that no longer serve us. You can listen to Chapter 1 in episode 7.
My book teaches people reader how the unconscious speaks, bringing concepts to life through personal stories of midlife unraveling, reconstruction, healing personal wounds related to sexuality and spirituality, and the anxiety of living life in a completely new way.
I didn't know why I had to study depth psychology, which coincided with the beginning of the end of my 24-year marriage, but my PhD research and writing helped me find the real purpose of my midlife unraveling. I started seeing my life and and everyone’s as Netflix series, filled with drama, comedy, romance, and even a dash of science fiction. I get so excited about the potential Netflix series being lived out as my clients explore their inner world.
Now, I’m on a mission to teach people the language of the unconscious because that’s where most of who we really are lives.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
P.S. I mentioned these books:
In Midlife, by Murray Stein
Transformation: Emergence of the Self, by Murray Stein
Daring Greatly, by Dr. Brené Brown
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In this episode, I read my first short story.
How I came to write my first short story is a funny story itself. I had picked up and left my Midwestern hometown with only what could fit in my car, drove down to a beach town in Florida to begin my new life, and wandered around with anxiety about what the heck I was going to do next. Oh, and it was the initial climax of the COVID19 outbreak. In spring of 2020.
The new ritual that grounded me most was walking the beach every morning. A month into my new life, as I walked my route, a fantasy came out of my unconscious about reconnecting with a man who I had spent a couple nights with six months earlier. It didn’t go anywhere, and I had deleted his phone number.
Now, the fantasy tortured me, and I began to see the man’s likeness everywhere. I couldn’t take it anymore. And then, after signing up for a writing program, and finding out I had to write a short story, I freaked out.
But for six weeks, accompanied by a Cosmo martini and the local musician who played acoustic guitar at my new favorite bar on the ocean, all the pent-up sexual energy came out onto the page.
I began to wonder about the relationship between sexuality, spirituality, and creative imagination.
I hope you enjoy my short story and explore the ways your own creative imagination wants to express itself.
I felt awkward all over again reading this to you, but that's the point. I write for me AND others to create space to explore the deeper meaning of ordinary life events. You can purchase this story on my website store www.deborahlukovich.com, and while you're there subscribe to receive notifications about new blog posts, podcasts episodes, and updates on my writing. and coaching services on my website too.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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In this episode, I have a conversation with Dr. Susan Rowland, author of her first in a series of novels. This one is called The Sacred Well Murders.
Dr. Rowland teaches on hybrid programs in Engaged Humanities, Creativity and Jungian & Archetypal Studies at Pacifica Graduate Institute in California. In her ten published books she has written about the psychology of the creative imagination, Jung, gender, and the arts. Her most googled book is Jung: A Feminist Revision.
For a decade Susan has been working on a project to examine feminine heroism as a path to cultural renewal. The Sacred Well Murders, is the first volume to be published. She says she’s always been fascinated by detective fiction, and now she’s achieving her life-long ambition to write mystery novels about undervalued women.
To learn more about Dr. Rowland's work, blog, and other books and publications, visit her website www.susanrowland-books.com.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
This episode is a reading from Chapter 1 of my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
This book combines my Jungian—based coaching framework for self-reflection AND to make it even more relatable, I weave in my personal stories of midlife unraveling, reconstruction, healing personal wounds related to sexuality and spirituality, and the anxiety of living life in a completely new way.
My writing and coaching, informed by my PhD work in depth psychology, make space for conversation about topics that are difficult or embarrassing to talk about. With depth, and often humor, my posts, stories, and books are inspired by my most awkward, intense, and meaningful experiences.
You’ll get a little peek into my nerdy mind and accidental sense of humor in this episode. If you enjoy, I hope you will purchase my book or gift a copy to someone you think could benefit by it.
You can learn more about me on my website www.deborahlukovich.com, and subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my membership program and coaching services.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, Dr. Stacey Shelby and I have a chat about romantic love as the ultimate transformer. If you've had intense experiences in love–good and bad–you're going to enjoy this episode.
Dr. Shelby is an author, speaker, educator, and depth psychotherapist. She’s a Registered Clinical Counselor in Canada, a certified dream tender, and she has studied in indigenous and yoga traditions, and she has lectured for multinational fashion corporations to bring a mythic and depth perspective to the concept of beauty, relationships, and transformation.
Oh, and she was my dissertation chair for my own PhD research. I know you'll enjoy our chat.
Check out Stacey's first book, Tracking the Wild Woman Archetype: A Guide to Becoming a Whole Indivisible Woman.
Get on the list to get news of the release of Stacey's next book, Love and Soul-Making: Searching the Depths of Romantic Love.
You can also follow Stacey on Instagram @drstaceyshelby.
I write for me AND others to find meaning in ordinary life events. You can also read this story on my blog.
On my website, you also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, I share a short story I wrote about an experience of death and rebirth.
In my story, I had already gone through a period of midlife unraveling and a little reconstruction. I had put into motion a completely different way of living my life, but then I got cold feet. I wrote this story six months after I started my new life in a beach town.
I hope you enjoy it and will share it with others. It’s called—Unleashed. You might become aware of your own subtle or dramatic experiences of death and rebirth.
I write for me AND others to find meaning in ordinary life events. You can also read this story on my blog.
On my website, you also subscribe to receive notifications of new blog posts, podcast episodes, updates on my writing, and information about my coaching services.
Check out my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, we explore the interconnectedness of patriarchy, Christian doctrine, and violence against women. You’re going to be inspired by my conversation with Meghan Tschanz, self-proclaimed feminist Christian, and author of Women Rising: Learning to Listen, Reclaiming Our Voice.
Fresh out of college, hating her job, and searching for meaning, Meghan left everything to join a mission trip. She befriended women around the globe who had survived sex trafficking, female genital mutilation, and extreme violence.
She soon recognized that the systems of injustice that held women back everywhere were the very systems in which her childhood church had taught her to quietly accept and in which the church and she were complicit.
Meghan’s book is a story of personal transformation that cannot be separated from the experiences of the women she met. I felt both inspired and emotionally drained. Having come of age in the 1980’s a time of great progress for women, the backlash that was born has only grown.
Meghan is a modern-day version of those feminist women who were there at the very beginning fighting against the one-sidedly masculine version of Christian doctrine that was being written.
You’re going to love this conversation!
Here are some links to organizations and books that come up in the conversation:
Justice Revival
Sacred Pleasure, Riane Eisler
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
Transforming a Rape Culture, edited by Pamela Fletcher, Martha Roth, and Eilie Buchwald
Your unique experience of being human is contributing to something new unfolding in our quest to evolve. Your experiences with reconciling the tension between spirituality and sexuality can bring dramatic insights about the purpose of your life in the big picture.
I write for me AND others to find meaning in ordinary life events. You can subscribe to receive notifications about new blog posts, podcasts episodes, and updates on my writing, and coaching services at www.deborahlukovich.com.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
What's your process for moving from one year to the next?
In this episode, I share a blog post I wrote about a series of amusing events that occurred over the last few days of 2020 that changed my perspective about how to approach 2021. You might have your own ah-ha or just have a good giggle.
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and coaching services on my website too.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, we explore how our personal experience of life is unique AND an expression of larger universal patterns of human experience.
Over time, these patterns change, for example, what it means to be in relationship with others, what it means to be feminine or masculine, or what justice and equality look like.
Our personal experiences and how we find meaning are important because they reflect how these universal patterns want to evolve.
One way we can become more aware of our personal role in evolving what it means to be a human being is by finding our stories in bigger stories and then wondering if what we’re experiencing, especially if it goes against convention, is something new, something right, something that is pulling humanity forward.
JD Edwin (Twitter)is the author of Headspace, a fantastic science fiction novel. I loved Headspace, and as I read it, I felt like I was in a movie theater. It reminded me of the Netflix series called Alice in Borderland. The theme of “being trapped in a game” intrigues me right now.
So, JD and I chatted about the personal and the universal, or what I describe as the intersection between the personal and what wants to emerge from the collective unconscious as new versions of archetypal energies.
I write for me AND others to find meaning in ordinary life events. You can subscribe to receive notifications about new blog posts, podcasts episodes, and updates on my writing.
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Deborah Lukovich, PhD
In this episode, I share one of my first short stories, about a moment when I knew I had crossed a meaningful threshold in my life after midlife unraveling and a little reconstruction had taken place.
I hope you like it and share it with others. If you could relate to that moment I describe, share your thoughts in the comment section.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD