When the Planned Life Collapses: A Journey into Individuation

In this episode I trace my journey from an intense graduate‑school community in London through academic disillusionment, anxiety, and early novel‑writing, toward Jungian analysis and the creation of Sophia Cycles as a circle for exploring inner life. I reflect on how apparent missteps and detours can become waypoints on the path of individuation, especially as we reclaim shadowed parts of ourselves in midlife and begin to live from a more authentic center. Along the way, I introduce key companions for this inner work—Robert A. Johnson’s Inner Work and A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living—and invite listeners to see their own collapses and questions as essential material for meaning rather than failures to be erased.