What Matters Most: Why Do We Suffer? (Hybrid)

We all know that life has its ups and downs.  We know that, some of the time, we're going to experience difficulty and unease, while at other times life will feel easy and natural.  Unfortunately, this knowledge can't adequately reflect the true experience of being in the darkest places we could ever find ourselves.  In true darkness, we begin to wonder if we'll ever see the light again.  We might feel like life could never be anything other than the suffering we're facing, or that the rest of our lives will be forever changed because of our suffering. In a brief but powerful essay, Jung equates our suffering with an inability to adapt to outer or inner conditions, and says that our inability to adapt essentially arises from a conditioned inability to trust – to trust our own judgment, instincts, or talents; to trust other humans; or to trust in the autonomous nature of the healing process itself.  Jung's vision of health as the ego's ability to rely on and access things beyond the ego – whether outside, in society and the environment, or inside, in our grit and intuition – influenced the work of many later psychologists, whose work we'll explore alongside Jung's.  Join us as we discuss how misery really might have something to do with generating love and company.

John Price, PhD, LPC, is a psychotherapist, lecturer, and musician. He and his wife Leila-Scott Price cofounded The Center for the Healing Arts and Sciences, a boutique integrative clinic. John hosts the podcast The Sacred Speaks which features interviews with experts on a variety of topics and is serving as living research for his forthcoming book. John’s doctorate is in Jungian psychology.

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