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How to Find Your Shadow Before Your Shadow Finds You
Check out more articles and resources at: GetTherapyBirmingham.com When I switch to a Jungian orientation in therapy with a patient I...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Nov 29, 202010 min read
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Get to Know the Hidden Parts of Your Personality!
Sidra and Hal Stone outline several important subpersonalities in their book 2011 book Embracing Our Selves. What subpersonalities are...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Nov 1, 20203 min read
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What is EMDR? How can EMDR help with trauma, anxiety and PTSD?
Our fight or flight response was a gift that kept us alive early in our evolution while we were living in the wild. When we heard a tiger...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Oct 25, 20204 min read
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Why Should I Care About Mental Health?
“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.” ― Martin Buber Our culture doesn’t prepare us well for vulnerability....

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Oct 18, 20202 min read
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How to Eat Your Shadow, Before Your Shadow Eats You
When I switch to a Jungian orientation in therapy with a patient I tell them that I believe that there is a dormant “acorn” in each of...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Oct 14, 20209 min read
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The Buddha's Therapist
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Oct 11, 20207 min read
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Scared? Find Your Inner Warrior.
The Warrior archetype allows us to harness our own sense of personal power to face fear and assert our own energy against the plans of...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Oct 1, 20204 min read
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Are You in Touch With Your Inner Magician?
The Magician is intuition, education, and reflexes. In myth and legend the Magician appears in stories not to be the hero, but to aid the...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Sep 30, 20203 min read
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Living on the Inside of History
“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Sep 3, 20208 min read
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How to Master your Inner Critic
Why do the best performing employees think they underperform and the worst performing employees think they over perform? This is a...

Joel T Blackstock Jr.
Aug 6, 20203 min read
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