by Jeff Howlin | Dec 23, 2019 | Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry
Over the Thanksgiving holiday last month, my family and I were “snowed in” in a mountain cottage west of Denver, Colorado. In the Colorado Rockies, snow can come down hard and deep in almost any month. I was fortunate to have 48 hours or so in a... by Jeff Howlin | Jun 28, 2019 | Dreams, Imagery, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Soul, Sports Psychology, Symbolic
On August 10, 2011, I published an article on this blog titled, Jungian Psychology and Sports. I am re-visiting this topic now due to a very short, but meaningful dream that I had recently. The dream: I made a really long basketball shot. Shortly after this dream I... by Jeff Howlin | Sep 9, 2016 | Editorial, Imagery, Soul, Symbolic, Synchronicity, Trauma/PTSD
I could not breathe. Hot, tired and afraid, I was. Trapped in the middle of a crowd of strangers in an airport—people looking at one another more from suspicion than from wonder. Me—held in my mother’s arms while being touched and bumped by bags and elbows. There,... by Jeff Howlin | Mar 1, 2016 | Dreams, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Nature, Poetry, Symbolic
There is a fish that lives deep in the ocean dark The fish has evolved over time To “see” in the deep With a lantern as a light Just in front of its eyes A young man Who knew about this strange fish Had a big dream In the dream He was riding his motorcycle... by Jeff Howlin | Dec 16, 2014 | Adolescent psychotherapy, Dreams, Editorial, Imagery, Individuation, Psyche, Psychology, Psychotherapy
Society needs to be shaken by the aspirations of those who are not responsible. Donald Winnicott The image is to Jungian psychotherapy as thinking is to cognitive therapy. But there is a difference. In cognitive therapy, it is assumed that one of the events that leads... by Jeff Howlin | May 30, 2014 | Archetypes, Biology, Ecopsychology, Editorial, Imagery, Individuation, Nature
The underdog, the oppressed, the scapegoated, the last-picked for the game, the runt—these characters and the means by which they scrap themselves onward in life, weave themselves into some of our favorite stories and myths. The Biblical story of David and...
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