Jeff James Howard, LPC joins Julian discussing the state of psychotherapy, being a soul guide, some of the problems with 'cancel culture' and the adolescence of United States culture writ large, vision fasts in the desert, men's work, danger of bypassing one's own past and unsustainable ways of trying to achieve transformation - list of topics below

Feb 18 republished with Edited Intro -

0:00- 5:40min Intro
5:40 min - 68:00min - Conversation with Jeff

Topics:
Transitioning from psychotherapy to being a  soul guide
Inside the Kiva
Finding our life's purpose and calling
The difference between 'you have a unique gift' and 'what do you want to be when you grow up?'
The stories we grow up with
Introjects versus leading with genuine longing
Why Jeff went into therapy as a client
Bill Plotkin, Depth Psychologist, Wilderness Therapy, Amos Valley Institute and the Patho Adolescence - how many of us never really grows up and become initiated adults in the world.
That the Insurrection at the Capital, the Me Too movement, BLM are developmentally in their adolescence and young in their process
The School of Lost Borders
Wilderness Vision Quests
"We don't go out into the woods to find ourselves or discover new parts of ourselves or become a new person. We go out to be with who we already are."
Psychiatric drugs and the risks and disfunction in our current medical system
Men's Work
Making Messes and cleaning them up skillfully - rather than being a people pleaser or a yes man or trying to be nice all the time
Black Mirror episode where someone can be 'canceled' and literally disappear from the perception of all the other people around them, effectively being exiled from humanity itself.

Learn more about Jeff at:
https://www.threeleavescounseling.com
https://drdansiegel.com/biography/
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