Title: Consciousness Strategist

Gender: Female

Age: Ageless

Sun Sign: Leo

Location: San Francisco, CA

** Released May 1, '09 **

Storied Lives: Discovering and Deepening Your Personal Myth

By Craig Chalquist PhD

with Rebecca Elliott MA

What is the myth behind your story?

C. G. Jung used the term “personal myth” to describe how collective stories, images, and motifs recur in our lives.  Over time, however, Jung’s term was watered down until it came to mean a kind of personal fiction one could change out and discard like an old garment.

Storied Lives continues Jung’s emphasis on the power of myth by showing how the old tales reinvent themselves continually during the course of a life, replaying with the force of fate when kept out of awareness but inviting creative recasting when consciously tended.

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EcoAnxiety:  How are you affected? 

I am a life coach who focuses on ecological and sustainability issues.  My clients experience a variety of responses to environmental threats, such as peak oil, climate change, and environmental degradation.  Take a look at some of the ways my clients deal with eco-overwhelm.  Do any of these reactions strike a chord with you or anyone you know?  I guide my clients toward a process of healing and creative action aimed at taking charge of their status as eco-citizens.

Common defenses against environmental awareness:

·  Denial:  Dismissing the evidence.

·  Manic defenses:  Stuffing anxiety under happy thoughts.

·  Scapegoating:  Rejecting the bearer of bad news.

·  Regressing:  “I can’t do anything about it anyway” (the child position).

·  Paranoia:  “It’s all rigged, a hoax, a conspiracy.”

·  Repression:  Deliberate turning away.

·  Stoic passivity:  “We can live with it.”  “We’ll adapt.”

·  Submission to authority:  “The experts will handle it.”

·  Distraction:  For instance, workaholism, shopping, sports.

·  Defaming:  “Treehuggers”, “flag worshipers.”

·  Magical thinking:  “Good thoughts will fix the world.”

Result:  psychic numbing.

Solution:  transformation of consciousness.

Visit my website at www.ecoanxietycoach.com

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