Lisa Marchiano, LCSW, Jungian analyst, shares insights on reclaiming feminine fire and outlaw energies. Topics include shrewdness, ruthlessness, fairy tales as wisdom conveyors, Lilith's story, and the balance between kindness and assertiveness.
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Tony Soprano Dream
Lisa Marchiano hesitated to end a bad therapy relationship to avoid hurting the therapist's feelings.
A dream featuring Tony Soprano inspired her to prioritize her needs, illustrating the necessity of ruthlessness.
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Discerning Kindness
Discern when kindness is appropriate versus when it becomes a harmful obligation.
Develop other qualities to protect yourself and pursue your goals when excessive kindness hinders you.
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Terry's Dinner Parties
Lisa Marchiano recounts a story of her friend Terry, who would end dinner parties abruptly when tired.
This exemplifies healthy disagreeableness, prioritizing one's own needs over social expectations.
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Women across every age and culture have struggled with the pain of repressing essential aspects of themselves. There may be no misery greater than when we bury our vital spark beneath a dense layer of niceness that society insists upon. With her book The Vital Spark, Lisa Marchiano, a Jungian analyst, author, and podcaster, offers readers a breakthrough guide filled with insights, practices, tales, and teachings to unleash your “sizzling spirit” and live life to the fullest.
Get ready to reclaim your “outlaw energies” in this powerful podcast on: transformation through fierce feminine initiations; the protective quality of shrewdness and ruthlessness; breaking out of an “innocence complex”; allowing ourselves to know what we know; why “too much kindness defangs us”; discernment; the metaphor of the central fire within us; Carl Jung’s teaching on the unlived life and the “glowing coals under gray ashes”; the vehicle of story and fairy tales to convey wisdom; the tale of “Fitcher’s Bird”; squinting and symbolism; the unsentimental quality in nature; the story of Lilith; the role of greed and selfishness in the quest for wholeness; growing confidence; cultivating the qualities that help us stay connected with ourselves; and more.