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Procrastination

This Jungian Life Podcast

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The Mystery of Procrastination

Deborah Ancelotti: Most of the time when we're procrastinating, the thing that we're fearing or trying to avoid is not as bad as we think it is. She says one mystery around procrastination is how it can be multi-generational and passed down through generations. A client of mine who had an incredible paralyzing dread of completing his taxes found hidden memories of dad having gone through a terrible problem with the IRS while he was a young child. And so there was this unconscious field of dread around authority and around a specific task.

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