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You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today my guest is Lisa Marchiano. Lisa is a clinical

social worker, a certified Jungian analyst, and a nationally certified psychoanalyst. She co-hosts

This Jungian Life, a podcast devoted to exploring current topics through the lens of depth psychology.

With Sounds True, Lisa Marchiano has written a new book. It's called Motherhood, Facing and Finding

Yourself, where she draws from a deep well of Jungian analysis and also symbolic research to present

a collection of fairy tales, myths, and fables that evoke the spiritual arc of raising a child

from infancy through adulthood.

Lisa Marchiano is smart, crisp, intellectually gifted, and loving.

And she has a way of normalizing the difficult challenges we go through,

whether that's through being a parent or the other ways that we might find ourselves stretched.

And she helps us find meaning in meeting those challenges.

Here's my inspiring conversation with Lisa Marchiano.

To begin, Lisa, I'd love to know what were the circumstances in your life and also what

drew you to becoming a Jungian analyst?

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