What does the word “psychology” conjure up for you? What feelings and/or thoughts stir? For many people, what comes up is a sense of challenge or difficulty, often pain, struggle, and fears that something is wrong. Given that our culture generally approaches psychology from the point of view of pathology, trepidation of one kind or another makes sense. But what if we came at things differently? What if we simply got curious about what psychology actually is, what it actually refers to, along with interest in how it works? After all, the root meaning of the word is ‘story or account of the psyche’. What if, by virtue of knowing more, we then found ourselves better able to direct our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and to better understand why we have created the psychologies we have (in an effort to survive)? What then? What would it be like to find ourselves in the driver’s seat of the car, or chariot, that we are?!
If you are interested in learning more, check out this new series starting in February 2025 – Inside to Outside: A New Look at Psychology – offering an intriguing way of seeing psychology as a vast ocean that we/humans dive into at the moment of birth and swim around in all the years of our life, from birth to death!
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