Dose of Depth
Welcome to Dose of Depth. I’m your host, Deborah Lukovich, PhD, and I invite you into conversations that explore the field between us.
Together we’ll examine dreams, relationships, creativity, leadership, organizations, and the ordinary moments that quietly reshape our lives. Through stories, conversations, and depth psychology, we’ll ask not only why something happened, but why now and what is trying to emerge through our experience.
This podcast is for people who sense that life is always speaking through relationships, conflict, attraction, loss, joy, and the unexpected synchronicities that seem to appear at just the right time. We’re less interested in having the right answers than in cultivating the conditions where new understanding can emerge.
Some episodes may offer a profound insight. Others may make you laugh at the strange symbolism of your own life.
I hope that each conversation helps you become more psychologically sovereign, more available to your own unfolding, and more aware of what is ripening in the field between you, others, and the world.
So pull up a chair. Let’s explore what is trying to emerge.
Dr. Deborah
Dose of Depth
Chapter 5 - The Forces that Shape You - from my new book, Your Soul is Talking. Are Your Listening? I take on the "P" word - Patriarchy
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In this episode, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose.
In this book, I teach the language of the unconscious, how it speaks, how to decode and find meaning in the messages, and a little kick in the butt to make sure you take steps to apply these insights to your life.
In Chapter 5, I get you thinking about the larger forces that shape you. We tend to think we know who we are and why we believe what we believe, but our lives exist within the context of the collective. You carry patterns of thinking and behaving that are rooted in childhood, and your ancestral patterns are rooted in even larger forces, and even globally, we exist within social organizing systems that are beyond our control and have shaped our assumptions about many things.
This chapter offers newer theories based on research that has not trickled down to the mainstream. Pay attention to moments of defensiveness or automatic dismissal of what you read, and take this as an opportunity to sharpen your critical thinking skills and explore the source of potential resistance. There’s treasure there and a more nuanced and sophisticated understanding of yourself and the world waiting for you.
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Thanks for listening and having the courage to explore the deeper meaning in your own life.
Deborah Lukovich, PhD