I have been listening for a few years now, this podcasts has helped me understand myself and the world around me in a very profound way. Highly recommend for everyone.

This is foolishness. They opine and wax eloquent, abandoning reasonable analysis. They discount any traditional model. I have listened on and off for years, and I can’t anymore. Disgusting bias and arrogance = blindspots.

Grew up in household where dream interpretation went with morning coffee. Love how accessible they make psychoanalysis and lean into the magical on occasion. The episode about the 1980s Satanic Panic moved me.

Talking about the Levant without mentioning Palestine is historic erasure. Say Palestine.

With an INTJ temperament, a Psychology college major & propensity to like to try to help friends interpret their dreams as well as my own, these three take the cake for me. I appreciate the wide variety of topics offered, the depth of their discussions, and the camaraderie & respect evident between the three of them. What a great team bestowing wonderful gifts upon us. :)

*my comment on YouTube was censored by the hosts so I’ve put it here instead* I have found a lot of value from this podcast in the past. But the most recent episode (being loyal to self and the death of illusion) came off as extremely elitist and out of touch. It was stated that workers who are advocating for unionization and fair pay/benefits are just stuck in a parental complex. There are people who work 40 hours per week and live out of their cars and can’t afford food! Workers joining hands and fighting against this is not asking the company to be their mommy and daddy. It’s demanding basic human decency and adequate pay for the work being put in. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised. Jungian psychology is somewhat of an elitist enterprise at its core. Jung himself was extraordinarily wealthy, becoming an analyst is generally only available to those with very deep pockets, and going through analysis is only possible for those with hundreds of extra dollars to burn each month on sessions. The pursuit of “individuation” isn’t really possible for those who are scraping and clawing to survive each day. It’s clear that the hosts of this podcast aren’t rubbing elbows with the “common folk” too often. But I would expect a better general understanding of the human condition from people who study psychology for a living.

I discovered TJL just weeks before the onset of the pandemic and the timing was fortuitous. One of many auspicious synchronicities. The show might not be for everyone but it was exactly what I was looking for and have remained a loyal listener since I first laid ears on it. A source of so much wisdom and inspiration.

I’m a therapist and a person on her own journey of unfolding. This podcast enriches me personally and professionally, puttting me in a reflective frame and bringing greater meaning to my life. Thank you!

Love the show, but lately it’s very hard to hear Joseph’s voice.

TJL is an absolute gem for anyone interested in exploring the depths of the human psyche. The podcast offers an insightful and thought-provoking journey into the world of Jungian psychology, with each episode packed full of wisdom, humor, and relatable discussions on life’s complexities. The hosts – three Jungian analysts – bring their wealth of experience to the table, providing rich, nuanced conversations on everything from dream interpretation to personal growth

Please consider the amount of mhmms and yeps for listeners. Thank you!!

It is my hope that u could do a podcast about this topic. Specifically how their “male” lens affects their ability to interpret female sexual and initiatory behavior in clients, and to interpret myth, fairytale and dreams.

I’m a long-time fan of This Jungian Life. As a psychotherapist (not strictly Jungian), I gather so much great material from the podcast that enhances both my work with clients and my own inner work (which is guided by a Jungian psychoanalyst). However, I do occasionally find myself frustrated by the hosts’ slavish adherence to a Jungian point of view beyond the point of good sense. As an example, I recently had to pause Episode 332 (The Secret Life of a Woman’s Soul) because I was becoming so angry at Jospeh’s insistence that Christiana Morgan may have not really been all that unhappy about her lifetime of being stifled, subjugated, and used by the men in her life (including Jung) and by patriarchy in general. He wonders if we’re just “projecting” modern attitudes onto this 20th-Century woman (also modern, by the way). He goes on to wonder (in his breathy, soft, sensitive-guy voice) if Morgan would be unhappy about being viewed as a victim. She was a victim, Joesph. Of patriarchy. Of misogyny. Of Jung and her lover. She can be both strong and brilliant and creative and also be a victim. It’s not projection. It’s not a problem in her psyche or mine. My anger at Joseph’s gaslighting is not a matter of my own overactive animus. It’s just plain frustration with unrelenting sexism. Anyway, four stars because 80 percent of the time I don’t become enraged by the content.

Could Joseph’s voice be any smoother? This trio has given me perspective that would never have occurred to me other wise. I started to listen just a year ago and the back catalogue has been so great! I’m very grateful for these conversations. I especially love when they dive into fairytales and confronting shadow.

It is such a treat listening to this podcast every morning with current episodes and rich library of back episodes. The hosts are fun, humorous and brilliant. They weave Jungian philosophy/psychology into a wide range of topics from fairy tales to tornadoes. They continue to expanded my consciousness and deepen my awareness of self, psyche, and dreams.

I love listening to your conversations. They are like fireside chats for me. This conversation about homesickness realty hit home for me, as do many of your talks. All these versions of loss the gentleness needed to move through the experience. Withdrawal comes to mind, or reluctantly waking up from the sleep that we oscillate between conscious home, unconscious home. The disruption of the last couple of years,

Hands down my favorite podcast

Must listen, mind blowing!

I can always manage to walk away with a new creative energy , or new perspective in approaching my life’s struggles :) The three of you are always a pleasure, much appreciation for you here and on YouTube!

TJL came to me at a point in my life when I was deeply lost. I needed something to help me become connected and whole but didn’t know where to get it from. I somehow found this podcast and gave it a try, and it sent me on a journey (still ongoing) to understanding myself and my life and becoming whole. These hosts do such an amazing job of holding the human experience and investigating different parts of life in a way that is both empathetic and honest. Not every episode is a home run, but that’s true of anything we do! By and large I think this is the best podcast I’ve ever listened to and has had a profound influence on my life.

I love this podcast so so much!! I’ve been listening to it for a couple years now and I find myself looking forward to every weeks new episode. It gives an opportunity to go deeper into once self and the world around us. I have shared this podcast with many friends and family who have found it equally insightful and meaningful. I’m so thankful for all that I have learned from this podcast over the years.

This podcast is at its best when they have a guest for an interview. The early episodes are also really helpful. I struggle with the more recent episodes topic round table but that’s just me. The dream interpretation section often has unique insights but could benefit from the dreamer being a guest to present the dream as it sometimes strikes me that there are assumptions that need grounding. But this is a real fine podcast that helps get the Jungian ideas out to a new audience. I applaud and give it a 4.5 but am limited in the star rating system.

I appreciate the perspectives of all three Jungians. It has aided me as a therapist with my clients, as well as providing insight into my own psyche.

This show used to be really amazing when it was about the topics at hand. Now it just seems to be all about Lisa and she needs to be first and doted on and put on a pedestal. I’m hoping we can go back to the original purpose stated in the intro to the podcast.

Three charming and intelligent analysts engage in captivating conversations that are an amazing introduction to Jungian thought. Uncannily relatable and sparking epiphanies, these conversations range from the personal to social. After listening for months, my dreams have become more cinematic. Thank you Deb, Lisa and Joseph!

Lisa Marchiano, alias Lisa Bell in anti-trans networks, has devoted her work to attacking the lived realities of trans, nonbinary, and gender expansive people. She is not alone in this in Jungian circles, but listeners should be aware of her transphobic positions before choosing whether or not to support her via this podcast. A Google search will bring you to her work.

Deep and beautiful work is happening here, all delivered with a relaxed and playful vibe.

Excellent and deep!

I am so glad I found this podcast! I have been listening for six months and have learned so much. It has completely catapulted my understanding of the unconscious. I listed to every episode regardless of the subject because there are nuggets hidden everywhere! Even a topic in which I think I have little interest provides oodles of information. Everyone I know has been to therapy, but nobody ever talks about Jungian therapy, dreams, or analysis. Maybe we should be!

I recommend this show to anyone who wants to keep learning about themselves and this strange world around us.

I appreciate many of the teachings in jungian, philosophy and analysis in this podcast. Also, I appreciate the dream analysis. Over the years it has been more difficult for me to listen to the three hosts talk due to unexplored implicit, bias in themselves. They tend to be an unpacking and exploring identity concepts at a level of understanding that is elementary at best. The hosts tend to pull less from their clinical experience and more from scholarly and academic thought which leaves much for embodied understanding to be achieved. I wish the three podcast hosts well in their own paths towards self reflection, self study, and deepening understanding in realms of experience that they currently have little knowledge about.

I have come to truly enjoy this show with its well-selected topics and thoughtful exchanges.

i loved this podcast until i found out its hosts are genocide apologists at best and genocidaires at worst 🤡🤡 the systematic punishment and killing of all 20k palestinians gaza (including up to 7k children and 80 journalists) IS a genocide, regardless of whatever mental acrobatics you want to make to rationalize differently. free palestine 🇵🇸

When I discovered This Jungian Life, my first thought was, “Where have I been all this time?” As a professional podcaster with over 10 years of experience, I so appreciate podcasts that are genuine, authentic, high-quality, and offered from the heart of the host(s). This Jungian Life offers so much value for listeners who want to understand Jungian archetypes, as well as various aspects of life and society as filtered through the lens of Jungian thought. The hosts are creative, thoughtful, funny, insightful, intelligent, and thoroughly human. I cannot recommend This Jungian Life more highly.

I have become a regular listener to this podcast. How these 3 discuss, dissect and create interest and discovery about pertinent and current topics has and continues to expand my awareness in ways that I have never gotten from any other medium. I feel like I can’t get enough-their perspectives are brilliant, relevant, vulnerable, healing and fascinating. Each podcast leaves me wanting more. I appreciate you-Joseph, Lisa and Deb.

As a therapist of 13 years, I’ve always been drawn to Jung. As the world feels increasingly chaotic, I find my drawn to his work more and more and more. I love this show because it’s like sitting in on all the conversations I’m longing to have! Great show! It’s also helped me with my attitude of curiosity with my clients ❤️

I love the dream analysis at the end of every episode! So good

A wonderful window looking out into the 10,000 things of the world while simultaneously sensing deep into unknown parts of the mind

A friend of mine made me a beautiful “Faerie Door”. When I put it on a bookshelf with other “precious things” the door was closed. My Mother-in-Law had died a few months earlier and my FIL gave me a beautiful tea cup and saucer that has little pink roses on it. I was so pleased to be gifted this cup and saucer and so it had a place of honor on the bookshelf. Two days after I placed the faerie door, there came this loud crack from the shelf and when I looked the cup had cracked in two. I couldn’t believe it. And so I told my friend, who gave me the door, she asked if I had opened the faerie door because you never keep it closed. I said I hadn’t and she said the faeries were telling me to open it up so they could freely move from this world to theirs. The door has never been closed since.

Thought-provoking and fun for any fan of Carl Jung.

This was my go to podcast for a long time, but I am tired of hearing Lisa’s repeated anti-trans rhetoric. They are also running out of fables to discuss, often referring to the same ones over and over again. The podcast also never addresses systemic socioeconomic or racial-political issues in relation to the collective psyche or as a contributor to emotional distress. Any attempt to write in a dream that may touch upon these subjects will get dismissed (Lisa chooses the dreams to discuss on the podcast, so that tracks), but for those of us who experience the effects of racially-motivated violence daily, it for sure impacts in our dream world. It’s too bad because I really like the other two hosts who are whacky yet compassionate. Oh well, maybe a similar dream-interpreting podcast will pop up that doesn’t ignore the experiences of so many people ~

I basically enjoy this podcast even though I’m not into having dreams interpreted by anyone other than myself. I wanted to comment on the latest episode featuring Donald Kalsched. His work on trauma has greatly influenced my life and led to great healing. I’ve a ways to go but at least I’m finally on my way. I was initially hesitant to listen to this episode because I’m so tired of the “right vs left” and the “left vs right” junk we’ve been in as a culture especially in the U.S. As a registered Green I’m particularly happy to see caring for our earth finally being taken seriously HOWEVER not at the expense of blaming us “everyday humans” for the “problems”. Governments and Corporations are a huge problem and not many are addressing tinkering with the weather etc (as in Weather Modification, etc.). As well, when 45 was elected I freaked out but only to be eventually faced with a “left” that was just as crazy in their own way. But not many every day Democrats (meaning us regular folks) want to address the real problems and mental illness in our own party. We’ve made Saints out of obvious “Sinners” and we’re just as guilty as the “right”. This particular podcast left me feeling not very hopeful. Liberal Lunacy is just as dangerous as Azzinine Authoritarianism.

While the analyses provided in each episode are interesting, I’m certain they lack (ironically) depth, particularly for the laymen. I find the conversations to be rather one and two dimensional. A particular problem I find is the heteronormativity and binaried perspectives. Perhaps a more petty complaint but, the old SNL skits that would make fun of NPR voices… this podcast plays into that stereotype quite a bit, and I find it quite pretentious. These issues might be solved if they were to incorporate more diversity in their analyses.

This podcast is a gem and the hosts are uniquely talented individuals who are able to communicate complex, intuitive topics in rational and relatable language. They’re rigorous in their thought process, are able to pull from psychology, mythology, history and art, and somehow make the ideas relevant. It’s really important, especially in our time, for people to become conscious and aware of the world around us, and this podcast has helped me do that more than anything else I’ve done. I wish them all the success and hope they’re able to continue the work for a long time.

This is one of my favorite podcasts💙I learn so much from listening - for my personal life and work life as a newly graduated art therapist. I deeply enjoy each hosts differing perspectives and stories.

Meeting Shadow on the Spiritual Path was an incredible, much needed episode. Clear and illuminating. Thank you so much.

I am so grateful for this show. I’ve consumed a fair amount of self-help and popular psychology, but never studied the major Western figures. For Jung to be the first is quite a ride. I love this introduction to a way of looking at ourselves and the world. You three offer the view with a softness and humanity that is so fitting, because that’s what seems to set Jung apart. There’s so much beauty, sadness, hope, and curiosity, not just “what’s wrong and how to fix it.” Listening is a treat I relish all to myself, like taking my brain on a date. Lastly, I’m impressed by how you three maintain balance. It’s so comforting how you show respect to each other and genuinely seem to enjoy this project week after week. Most co-hosts seem to get sick of each other and bail a couple seasons in. TJL is my happy place these days. Thank you for everything you’ve taught me so far.

The female analysts both have authentic ways of speaking (and lots of great stuff to say), the male has a whispering, pontificating vocal style which feels inauthentic and mannered - “therapist” speak. More of the women please, less of the man or more analysis so he can be more real. I have colleagues who also listen and agree.

Every episode I listen to teaches me something new and helps me connect with another part of myself or my life. I especially like the ones where they analyze fairy tales and stories! The Ugly Duckling episode is one of my favorites so far.

I listened to dozens of these podcasts and loved them. Then I listened to the one on anger, in which they used Trump as an example. Why did you have to get political? I thought you were better than that. *unfollowing*