Vicky Jo Varner
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: chaos, coaching, Conques, COVID, extraverted feeling (Fe), extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted sensation (Se), extraverted thinking (Te), inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), introverted sensation (Si), introverted thinking (Ti), mandala, pandemic, tympanum, Vicky Jo Varner, Wheel of Type, Z-model of decision making
April 25, 2021

We harken back to the Conques tympanum’s division of cosmos and chaos as Jung thereby affirmed the value in engaging with all four functions so as to address our human challenges and set matters in order. Just as Christ was the arbiter of human souls on the Conques tympanum, we may engage our inner self to negotiate the chaos within our own psyche.
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Kevin Kell
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: active imagination, adolescence, auxiliary function, ENFP, ESTJ, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), Hestia, individuation, inferior function, introverted feeling (Fi), James Hillman, John Beebe, Kevin Kell, Lenore Thomson, one-sidedness, panic attacks, phobias, power complex, tension of opposites, transcendent function
April 25, 2021

Many clients enter treatment because their psyche is “failing” to accommodate itself to their one-sided will. They are cut off from the self-regulating functions of their unconscious and the resulting symptoms have induced so much suffering that they are forced to stop their plans, enter therapy, and work through the blockage. The power complex wants a better hold on the psyche.
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Jonathan Elias
43 / Counseling, Coaching, and Psychotherapy / Personal Development, Health, and Spirituality
Tags: Eros, extraverted intuition (Ne), extraverted thinking (Te), individuation, inferior function, INFP, INTJ, introverted feeling (Fi), introverted intuition (Ni), James Hillman, Jonathan Elias, marriage, Opposing Personality, projection, Psyche
April 25, 2021

Couples often wonder whether they are “ready” for such a commitment. I look for situations when each person’s “sore spot” is activated. When a couple is able to hold the tension of the activated inferior function and find a way to make their relationship a vehicle for the development of personality, then they are “ready” for marriage in one of the most crucial ways.
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