The One Thing AI Can't Do for Your Personal Growth

You describe your relationship, your fear, your best kept secret to an AI, and within seconds the pattern has a name. It makes sense. It even brings a little relief. Then the next difficult moment arrives, and the old feeling arrives with it, just as strong as before.

I have read the classic literature on the psyche for years. I knew the concept of suppression well, until a recent crisis made me feel it: emotions I never knew I had pushed away came forward, not as an insight but as an experience that took hold of me. The German word for this is Ergriffenheit, being pulled into transformation and taken by it. In this episode I also share a client who understands his conflict perfectly and is still carried back into a child's loneliness, and we sit with the difference between knowing a thing and being changed by it.

An inquiry into the one part of growth that cannot be handed to anyone or anything else, and what opens when you let yourself be taken by it.

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Find out where you stand on your path and what your next important move is. A short test with a few questions, plus small practices to take with you.

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