Carl Jung’s Word Association Test

Carl Jung’s Word Association Test

One of the most significant discoveries of the early 20th century was of a part of the mind we now refer to as ‘the unconscious.’ It came to be properly appreciated that what we know of ourselves in ordinary consciousness…

Why Some Adults Can't... "Act Their Age"

Why Some Adults Can’t… “Act Their Age”

In contact with given challenges, we leave behind our adult faculties and slip very quickly into a child-like spectrum marked by panic, rage, despair, terror and appeasement. The specific occasions that shift us from adult to child can serve as…

Why Relationships Require Self-Love

Why Relationships Require Self-Love

No animal, perhaps, can hate itself except – of course – a human being: it’s one of the strangest, and most regrettable, flaws in our condition. This tendency to self-hatred is not only destructive of our spirit, it constantly undermines…

Are You Stuck Playing These 3 Roles in Love?

Are You Stuck Playing These 3 Roles in Love?

One of the stranger but more useful suggestions of psychotherapy – and in particular, a branch of it known as Transactional Analysis – is that all of us contain within ourselves three essential personalities… Sign up to our mailing list…

Why You Need to Have a Proper Adolescence

Why You Need to Have a Proper Adolescence

It’s an enormous privilege to have an adolescence – and, to an extent rarely spoken about, not everyone gets the chance to have one. Adolescence isn’t just a particular time of one’s second decade, and it won’t unfold automatically simply…

How Mark Rothko’s Bleakness Can Save Us

How Mark Rothko’s Bleakness Can Save Us

The most unexpectedly uplifting and consoling artist of the 20th century was the abstract painter Mark Rothko, the high priest of grief and loss who spent the latter part of his career turning out a succession of sublime and sombre…

Ithaka Will Change Your Goals, Happiness and Success

Ithaka Will Change Your Goals, Happiness and Success

We spend much of our lives trying to fulfill our distant ambitions: wanting to create the circumstances in which, finally, we’ll be happy. It’s an enchanting idea but, ironically, it means that most of the time we’re restless because we’re…

Finding Love Journaling Affirmations  #shorts

Finding Love Journaling Affirmations #shorts

Journal with us #7 We are social beings and we ought to build relationships with others. What’s the point of having a loveless relationship? Use these 5 affirmations to attack love and affection back in your life. #shorts —————————————————————- For…