Leaning into Your Soul’s Calling: Self-Discovery and Your Inner Essence

August 28, 2024 Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.Leave a comment

For millennia, wisdom traditions have beckoned us to pause, reflect, and delve into the deeper questions that govern our lives. In today’s fast-paced world, where the external often takes precedence over the internal, the concept of leaning into your soul’s calling offers a powerful path to rediscovering what truly makes meaning in life. This short article is inspired by a fireside talk I delivered on New Year’s Eve 2020, where I had the privilege of exploring these profound themes with a live audience whom I invited to consider one of C.G. Jung’s most essential inquiries: “The decisive question for man […]

Depth Psychology in Daily Life: Unconscious Projection in Work, Money, and Relationships

May 17, 2023 Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.Leave a comment

Jungian psychology uses the idea of projection to describe how we use pre-conceived biases and lenses to manage or project our expectations onto others

Blog post by Dr. Bonnie Bright and Dr. James Newell Watch the Replay: Depth Psychology in Daily Life: A Community Conversation” with Dr. Bonnie Bright and Dr. James Newell Read Part 1 of this Blog series: Depth Psychology in Daily Life: Making the Unconscious Conscious in Work, Money, and Relationships Depth psychology is a field that explores the unconscious aspects of the human psyche, seeking to understand the underlying motivations and patterns that guide human behavior. By bringing these unconscious motivations, beliefs, and behaviors to light and integrating them into our conscious awareness, we can achieve greater self-awareness and personal growth. Because the […]

Coming Home to Your Self: Depth Psychology and the Symbolic Life

January 12, 2020 Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

Learn about the 3-day Coming Home event, Jan. 16-19, 2020 Read the post below, or listen to an Audio version on YouTube by clicking the following image As spiritual beings having a human experience, each of us longs for meaning. “Humans are living stories, each imbued with an inherent message and a meaning trying to find its way into the world,” writes mythologist Michael Meade. However, without a sense of calling or capacity to live into the unique gifts we each possess, we can feel ourselves lost, alone, depressed, or despairing, not knowing how we belong in the world. On […]

A Revision of One’s Calling: A Journey through Embodied Experience—An Interview

May 11, 2018 Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

At age six, Elizabeth Wisniewski was diagnosed with a rare eye disease, and when her retina detached at 14, she lost vision in her right eye. At age 21, while undergoing her 30th eye surgery, everything went terribly wrong, and she lost almost all her vision in her left eye as well. Though she was devastated by her future without sight, Elizabeth’s natural curiosity and passion for learning led her to pursue a degree in political science and environmental studies and then, in a significant shift, to earn a degree as a doctor of chiropractic. She also became a yoga teacher and […]

Depth Psychology: Empowering Multicultural Women in the Wider World—An Interview with Media Mogul Nely Galán

April 5, 2018 Bonnie Bright, Ph.D.

Depth Psychology: Empowering Multicultural Women in the Wider World As a Latina and a self-made media mogul who has produced hundreds of television shows, headed a TV network, and generated a significant amount of income, Nely Galán ironically felt an odd sense of relief when the economy crashed in 2008, bringing many of her projects to a halt. In hindsight, Galán believes she had been feeling incongruent in her career because she was in a field where much of the focus was on achieving success, and where individuals were not valued for being their authentic selves. By that point in […]