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02/13/2026

02/13/2026

🟢👑 THE PRINCESS AND THE PEA fairy tale speaks to us of longing, discernment, and Psyche’s search for authenticity.

In this week's episode, we follow a prince who cannot recognize love, then watch what happens when Fate (in the form of a dramatic storm) delivers an answer that arrives soaked, shaken, and bedraggled.

Armed with Jung’s symbolic insights, we reveal the storm as an eruption of feeling, the gate as a psychological threshold offering protection and resistance, and the king and queen as wise inner figures who recognize possibility when the young ego cannot.

We consider the queen’s strange test, 20 mattresses, 20 eiderdown quilts, and one small pea that holds a tiny hidden potential.

Then, we look at the pivotal moment when the body reveals truth in the form of metaphoric bruises that can speak more convincingly than words.

🔗 Find the episode on our website (where you'll also be able to read Joseph's detailed essay on the fairy tale), or listen wherever you get your podcasts. The link is in the first comment on this post.

02/08/2026

⚖️❤️‍🩹 "What do I owe my parents?" is the painful question many of us feel we must grapple with.

This "owing" frame, however, can make the parent-child bond feel like a debt ledger, keep you trapped in the child role, and push you into two dead-end moves: martyrdom, or righteous cutoff.

We explain:

• Why forgiveness gets weaponized, and why atonement matters more than words.

• How inner work can complete unfinished business, without the other person present.

• Why caregiving can trigger the original trauma, and how boundaries stop the cycle.

Listen if you'd like to know how to wring charge out of a painful memory, separate care from intimacy, and make a realistic decision based on your personal circumstance.

🎧 Find the episode wherever you get your podcasts, or via the link in the first comment on this post.