Enlightened Living Counselling Services

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

⚖️❤️‍🩹 "What do I owe my parents?" is the painful question many of us feel we must grapple with.

This "owing" frame, however, can make the parent-child bond feel like a debt ledger, keep you trapped in the child role, and push you into two dead-end moves: martyrdom, or righteous cutoff.

We explain:

• Why forgiveness gets weaponized, and why atonement matters more than words.

• How inner work can complete unfinished business, without the other person present.

• Why caregiving can trigger the original trauma, and how boundaries stop the cycle.

Listen if you'd like to know how to wring charge out of a painful memory, separate care from intimacy, and make a realistic decision based on your personal circumstance.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

01/22/2026

🏘️ 📺 The pull to blend in once protected you; it helped you belong and stay safe.

Now it shows up as doomscrolling, over-functioning at work, drinking to numb out, snapping at your partner, and chasing the next self-improvement hack.

This episode shows you how to protect your personhood in a world that rewards the crowd.

When you build an inner reference point, you stop outsourcing your conscience to the group.

Join us this week as we unpack Jung’s 1957 essay, The Undiscovered Self.

In its pages we find guidance to help us:

🚩 Know when we've been reduced to a resource and not a whole person.
🚩 Notice the effects of emotional contagion and think before we act.
🚩 Ask 'where's that in me?", rather than labeling everyone we dislike as evil.
🚩 Replace devotion to an “ism” with a personal value that matches who we really are

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.

01/15/2026

✨📚 This week, a Jungian exploration of the fairy tale, All-Kinds-of-Fur.

In the tale, the princess survives by covering herself in fur and soot, and donning a coat made of thousands of different kinds of fur.

You too may have built a costume in which you feel safe.

That costume once protected you, but now it may be holding you back at work, creatively and in your relationships.

This can look like hiding, overworking, numbing out, or letting people cross lines, because being unseen feels safer.

Working through this ancient fairy tale can help you identify your own survival pattern and take the next step out of it.

We cover:

✨ Identifying the “impossible promise” that keeps you stuck.

✨ Noticing your own “fur cloak” - the mask of busyness, perfectionism, people pleasing, or disappearing.

✨ How to start practicing safer honesty.

✨ The “30-minute return": using small windows to feel, speak, and be seen.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.