by Jack Adam Weber | May 10, 2025 | Uncategorized
We live in a toxically fix-it culture. By which I mean we try to fix everything, which ironically and tragically, breaks us. Emotional injury is a prime example of injury that cannot be healed by an aggressive, fix-it model. In an emotionally illiterate culture, this...
by Jack Adam Weber | May 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
Irony Shadow projection Blind spots Accusation as confession Hypocrisy All five are synonymous dynamics. They all hinge on denial, which creates a blind spot or shadow, which is eventually projected as toxic hurt. Such a person also commits hypocrisy because they are...
by Jack Adam Weber | Apr 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
Learning to discern what is true is crucial for our times. I like to call relatively certain, carefully vetted truth, the “most likely truth.” It’s the level of certainty we have about most hot topics these days.When you don’t know how to identify objective truth, you...
by Jack Adam Weber | Feb 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was in the depths of my shadow and core wound work many years ago, I took the message of this meme to an extreme, for the purpose of overturning every inner stone I could. I took everything personally so that I could examine as many of my defunct patterns as...
by Jack Adam Weber | Feb 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I work with people who need help dealing with unprocessed loss, I virtually never try to “get them to grieve.” Our culture is particularly incompetent at receiving nuance at a deep level, especially emotion, and especially difficult emotion....