Finding Our Way Back: Healing From Self-Betrayal

This Jungian Life Podcast

Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano

Jungian, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Psychology, Dreams, Jung, Relationships, Selfhelp, Society & Culture, Psychoanalysis

4.8 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2024

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

When we betray ourselves, we abandon our values, needs, or truths to gain approval or avoid discomfort. This leaves us disconnected, fragmented, and unsure of who we really are. These patterns often start in childhood, where conditional love or invalidation teaches us to hide our authentic selves to stay safe or gain acceptance. We see this in our daily lives—staying in unbalanced relationships, ignoring our emotions, overworking, or making choices that don’t align with who we are. We justify it, suppress what we feel, or take on others’ beliefs without realizing how much it costs us. Trauma can make this worse by teaching us to keep our needs small or invisible, while societal norms push us to conform and silence our inner voice. To heal, we need to reconnect with our true selves. That means facing the parts of us we’ve denied, listening to our intuition, setting boundaries, and taking small steps toward living in line with our values. This isn’t easy, but it’s how we find our way back to a life that feels whole, honest, and truly ours.

Prepare to discover what it means to act against your own values and needs; how emotional suppression, societal pressures, and unresolved trauma shape behaviors that disconnect you from your true self; which thought patterns, emotional habits, and external influences drive actions that compromise your integrity; whether internal conflicts and unmet needs can be transformed through self-reflection; why aligning with your authentic self is essential for psychological growth, meaningful relationships, and living a fulfilling life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to this Jungian life.
0:04.2	Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee,
0:09.7	invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day.
0:19.4	I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee,
0:24.9	and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst,
0:31.1	and Cape Cod.
0:45.8	Thank you. So did you guys notice my hair today?
0:48.3	Yeah, it was very special.
0:50.0	Are you going to ask me why?
0:51.1	Yes, why?
1:04.1	Well, tomorrow is a very big day, and we're recording this on November 11th, and November 12th is a very exciting day for me for two reasons.
1:15.1	The first is that my youngest kid comes home from New Zealand, and I haven't seen him in four months, and I'm ridiculously excited to go pick him up the airport tomorrow. And the second reason is that tomorrow,
1:21.6	November 12, is publication of our book, Dreamwise. So I was trying to kind of tone match the cover of the
1:33.5	cover of the book. A good attempt. Excellent. Yeah. I don't think it really worked. But whether or not my
1:40.8	hair works, I really believe that this book works. So I hope if you haven't purchased your copy, you will run out and do it right now.
1:50.6	So today we're going to be talking about self-betrayal. How do we abandon ourselves? How do we cheat ourselves the different ways that this can happen?
2:08.2	And how does this show up in dreams and fairy tales? So, and it's a kind of heartbreaking thing
2:15.2	when it happens when we realize that we've betrayed ourselves.
2:19.2	So we're going to be walking around that issue today.
2:22.9	I wonder if we could first circle around the difference between self-betrayal and self-sabotage.
2:32.6	So we've talked about self-sabotage and listeners might be thinking,
2:38.2	isn't this more or less the same thing, but it isn't? Well, it depends on if you're a lumper or a
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