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....
by Jack Adam Weber | Feb 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Like fear, hate is considered bad and taboo, especially in New Age circles. Yet, both fear and hate are crucial, especially the former. It’s actually sustainable to experience hate, when worked with skillfully. Hate is perhaps the most taboo and ostracized emotion....
by Jack Adam Weber | Oct 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
We don’t “transform” emotional pain. Rather, we are transformed “by” it. It’s not a mechanical process; it’s an alchemical one that begins with receiving that pain. Believing that we transform emotional pain is a patriarchal, fix-it paradigm....
by Jack Adam Weber | Sep 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
There are needs . . . and there is neediness. Everyone needs connection with others. But when unmet childhood needs spill into adult relating, neediness arises. It has a different flavor than adult need fulfillment. To me it feels like excessive clinginess to the...
by Jack Adam Weber | Sep 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
There are many reasons for feeling tired. It doesn’t necessarily mean something is wrong with you. Mainstream culture says we should be energetic all the time. And happy. But that’s an ironically impoverished prescription that misses so much about the life of the...
