thanks gale... it's really the stone that is still hurting my feet in my 50's. I know I lost a lot of time recognizing my guts feelings by being with a narcissist. but it still hurts, and I feel like I lost so much time and so much opportunities just because of that. but little by little I am conquering myself again. thank you!

Super interesting!

Thank you for talking about this. Usually “office romances” have always been explained as a thing that happens due to close proximity, but it’s nice to see it linked to all creative endeavours, birthings, and projects toward a particular result. The energetic explanation makes more sense than other theories I’ve heard. I have had several crushes through my academic life on professors and TAs, and I think it’s because I felt their superiority. I wanted to be better and more worthy, so in an unconscious way I wanted their approval. The crazy thing is that I didn’t actually perform better- I just felt embarrassed and then would hold myself back.

I disagree on adhd part I. Dont have followed morning routine just struggle get up Wearing more layers of clothing helped me and say it like you just said

0:59 no shit he is asleep😂 With he got no choice wtf

So, I’m on your channel because I love psychology but also I have had a novel incubating for a decade and have finally decided that I CAN write fiction. I loved your archetype videos and they’re very helpful.

Thanks for making such valuable content 🙏

Does the gut feeling show up for every decision?? Sometimes I feel like my gut is "quiet" and doesn't have an opinion either way. Feels a little unmooring.

I am slightly addicted to this channel

Thnak you. I love that you have the way with words and show me things that were not clearly visible.

Amazing as allways

I have been going through it lately with the man I'm living with. Every time I confront him about his behavior, he turns it around on me, I had so much anxiety stuffing all of that down and taking responsibility for all of our conflicts. But when I realized how he was manipulating me there was a release in my chest and it just felt cooly and calmly right. Moral of my story: I wish I would have questioned this relationship I made when I was young and stuck in the fog of trauma.

Brilliant! Thank you for the kind and thoughtful insight. It gonged my longing for innerstanding

Why does she speak so fast and rushing? 😢

This is great therapy for me.. I love Jung and depth psychology..amazing video thanks! ❤

I have a question for you. I found the betwixt app about a year ago. I just found out recently that I have aphantasia which means that I can't visualize like others do and I used the betwixt app for a while not realizing that visualization is part of it I'm assuming so how would I go about using it also any of the other videos you have a lot of times referenced visualizing so I'm trying to find out what I can do when I can't visualize this stuff.

Thanks for this ❤😊

Symbolism is about symbols meaning specific things to specific people. Symbology is about using symbols to aid in understanding for yourself. 🙏🏻🤍👏🏼

the decluttering idea is brilliant! i have always been a person who jumps in with both feet, on instinct. However when faced with a really difficult decision when i was 25, i took 2 weeks away from everyone to analyse. wrote the lists, did the pros and cons. then that inner voice said, don't be daft, you know what you need. and i followed that instinct despite the large social consequences. it led to my dark night of the soul, which i would probably have done my best to avoid in my other life. i am the authentic me now because of that. I have found that living more in the moment, asking 'what do i feel right now?' is one way to remain in touch with who i am. thank you as always for fascination in stories and life.

"Holding a grudge is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die", I really needed this today, thank you

Omigosh, your sharing about your experience of winning those two titles and feeling totally disconnected from the achievements flashed me back to a time when I won a competition and had a number of other achievements in a relatively short time... and none of it made any sense to me. It was as if a different person had done all that work, and the "real me," the familiar me with my familiar negative self-belief, was a confused spectator.

Thank you! I love the idea of practicing feeling your gut instinct by decluttering! Two birds😂

Marvelous video! As C. G. Jung said: "Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

I wonder if this could happen when you are feeling great and excited from working individually on your own project or goal and making progress. That good feeling might spill over to someone you encounter during that period and cause feelings of misplaced attraction to someone you might otherwise never be interested in.

I tried this and it worked!

This pratic is called "ablution"

This story reminds me of the saying, “riding the elephant.” Its meaning: “to have experienced a powerful, often overwhelming emotional state, drawing from the metaphor where the ‘elephant’ represents the emotional side of a person, and ‘riding it’ implies being fully immersed in that strong emotion, usually with little control over it; it's often used to describe a significant or life-changing experience.”

I don’t have a partner. 🙁

The book the wandering unicorn is a bit of a flip - melusine is a half fairy who is cursed to turn into a two tailed mermaid/serpent once a month or whatever. Her husband is forbidden from spying on her , but is convinced to find out why she doesn't show up for Sabbath. And you guessed it

💯 coward here. How to get out of the sand trap of fear and underdeveloped identity that believes it doesn’t know what it wants?

I Agree Gina One Friend is a True Statement. 😊

Excellent video as always 👏👏👏. You are such an inspiration. Thank you so much for existing ❤❤❤❤ *this reminded me the meaning of the Tarot card "the Lovers", in which the representation of love is a secondary meaning. The first meaning of the card is about choice and free will. In the Riders White Tarot deck there are two free people (a woman and a man) standing under an angelic being. Interestingly, in the Devil card, there are these two same people, but tied in chains, in front of the devil. And this card represents the loss of free will in all of it's possible forms: insufficient focus in material needs, sex without feeling, addiction, obsession, toxicity, deceit, manipulation, abuse etc....

Side note on your opening: While I "used to know" that Psyche in the myth meant "Soul," that slipped my mind as I wrote my ghost story about a psychic! Hearing it again now really helps tie things together in this novel. Thanks. Great essay! It does make me wonder did the audience -- all of Greek society? -- of these myths know to interpret the cast of characters as aspects of one whole person? Or did the storytellers encode the tales this way, knowing it would convey their meaning unconsciously? On your last note about Eros: It's been decades since I read Greek myths, but hearing you describe him as the god of love surprised me. Wasn't his mother Aphrodite the Goddess of Love? I always took Eros, especially with his primary phallic symbol of the arrows, to be the spirit of sexual love, and so we have the word 'erotic.' And 'agape' meant friendly or spiritual love. And the two together being 'true love.' But I'm no expert on all this, just a casual reader long ago.

Hazel, darling, you truly have a gift ❤ Your videos are always an experience. Thank you for another fantastic one! You have a fan out here in Brazil 🇧🇷

Oh my gosh I just downloaded the game and did the first exercise. This is AMAZING!! Thank you for creating something so beautiful and helpful.

I’ve been struggling to put into action what I know to be true because I didn’t even realise I was doing the opposite of embracing and loving myself while trying to learn to do that. It’s so strange how you don’t realise certain things until someone else steps in to clarify ❤❤

Thank you so much! Someone said to me recently, "You have to go into the mountain, and face what's there." And that resonated.

Wow, I just listened to this twice while doing restorative yoga to ease pain in my body. It was fascinating, can’t wait to listen to more. Thanks.

interesting as always. i just don't understand why bash on "happily ever after" so much. not every woman want's to be "equal" (whatever that means). i know plenty of them who want to marry and live making their home a beautiful place.

This came out today, the same day I found an obstacle I thought insurmountable I may have to find a second job and make changes to my time for a return to university in order to pursue my dreams It's hard and it's scary and part of me thought myself stuck This video is a solid reminder that change, even if it hurts, can be an opportunity for growth if I choose to embrace it Thank you for this and all your hard work this far

Hazel, I look forward so much to each new video. This one is utterly amazing and, for me, literally jaw-dropping; thank you so much. All videos feel like they are reaching me at just the perfect time, an indication, I feel, of your powerful connection (albeit virtual), with us, your audience. This one even made me cry; astonishing, and all parts of me are truly grateful. 🙏🏼

Wow Hazel. I underwent this journey 5 weeks ago when I gave up denial and left my abusive husband. I thought I had the perfect life, but I was living a lie - thinking he would just be nice again soon. Thank you for what you do, and I love my Betwixt app.

Beautifully and evocatively explored and explained

Timely beyond belief, thank you. Every single word is relevant.

This story is my favorite ever; always has been, and I've never known why. Love your exploration. So many great, great layers. Psyche's original trouble comes because she resembles Venus so much that locals redirect their worship away from Venus and turn to her; their inital similarity becomes that actual problem that starts Psyche on her journey. That has always intrigued me. Also, in Apuleius' version at least, Venus finally lets up on harassing Psyche because other goddesses - I think Athena and Juno - have to go to her and tell her she has to let Cupid grow up and have his own family, and that persuades her. So much to consider! Thanks, as always.

The result of integration is the child of pleasure.

I could listen to you speak for hours on end

I had a slightly different take - the whole time she was asking for status, wealth, control but really she (the emotions) needed care and nourishment. The fisherman kept going out to get fish, and while the wife’s wishes got granted, he never returned with the food he set out for and that she needed. As the flounder granted her emotional wishes, the rational needs were neglected and the ocean (unconscious mind) got angry and scary due to this emotional neglect. The flounder understands this so instead of continuing to give into emotional demands, finds that the solution is to strip everything back and let the wife/ emotions be. This allows the wife to self-soothe (peel her own potatoes/ provide her own nourishment) and the fisherman comes home to a sense of relief without having to do any reasoning with his wife/ the emotions himself. After all, emotions can’t be reasoned with :) Loved the story! 🤍

Why was the sea black with huge waves when he went for her final request? I have lost so much, people, stuff, my health, my mind, and found so much that I cant explain in those losses - so the message of integration is clear. I really felt the part about the waves though. Do you have an interpretation?

I think what you're doing with these videos is brilliant. Thanks for sharing!