“We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.” -C.G. Jung The Metamorphosis of Healing from Abandonment: Many of us are all too familiar with the extreme suffering, hopelessness, and self-loathing that manifests when we fall victim to abandonment fear patterns in our romantic relationships. Most of us have abandonment […]
Author Archives: Christine Dufond
Mid-life Crisis or Mid-life Awakening?
In his book, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, Jungian psychologist James Hollis describes mid-life crisis as more of a spiritual awakening. Some come to this awakening through a growing sense of spiritual and philosophical longing in their disillusionment with our materialistic society. Others come into it from hitting a bottom, maybe from an alcohol […]
