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Hello, Sam here. Welcome to Radio Headspace and to Friday. Have you ever thought of yourself as a magician? What about a warrior, a king or a queen?

What if I told you that we have all of these characters and more within us, helping us to make decisions?

During a recent coaching session, I was talking about how I tend to respond to a behavior that I find annoying with my

partner. I told my coach that I tend to shut down or distance myself when this pattern

emerges because I feel like I have no control or influence over it. She asked me to consider

other ways of responding, ways that have been helpful for me in the past.

I immediately thought about the perspective of empathy, tapping into my own experience that mirrors

what my partner is going through. And this ability to respond from different perspectives

reminded me of working with archetypes, something I became familiar with in graduate school.

Architects, a term coined by Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, are characters or symbols that are widely

recognizable and relatable. Many archetypes are passed down to us through stories and movies as we

retell tales of kings and queens, heroes, and wizards.

Tapping into our own version of these archetypes helps us to access inner resources that we didn't even know we had.

In graduate school, my professor showed us a video of motivational speaker Tony Robbins leading

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