Integrating the Parts of Yourself that You Wish Didn't Exist

My conversation with Dan Harris on the 10% Happier Podcast

Welcome to new subscribers. I wanted to share the recent podcast interview with all of my subscribers and invite any questions or thoughts you have after listening. Feel free to drop them in the comments below.

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I had the great honor of being on the 10% Happier podcast with

Dan Harris

yesterday. It’s honestly hard for me to summarize our conversation because we talked about so much. But here are some high-level themes:

1. What is Jungian psychology? And how has Jung’s work influenced culture?

2. What is Synchronicity, and why does it matter if we can’t explain how it works?

   1. Bonus: Dan shares a fabulous synchronicity of his own.

   2. What does it mean for events to be connected acausally?

3. Defining The Collective Unconscious.

4. Explaining Shadow work (and why I don’t often use that term).

5. How just a little bit of dreamwork can make you 10% happier.

6. I talk with Dan about his dreams of being late and what they might be trying to tell him.

7. And I present my Two-Selves exercise about how to balance your Stability (civilized) side and your Meaning (wild) side.

Or watch on YouTube:

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Also, in case you missed it, Elinor Dickson, co-author of Dancing in the Flames, who joined us after our book group, was on

Elise Loehnen

’s podcast recently. Since so many of you fell in love with Elinor, just as I have, I wanted to make sure you saw this. It’s such a wonderful conversation.

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Drop any questions or thoughts you have below. I’d love to hear.

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I’m Satya Doyle Byock, psychotherapist, author of Quarterlife: The Search for Self in Early Adulthood, director of The Salome Institute of Jungian Studies, and co-host of a podcast on Jung’s Red Book. My work has been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Oprah Daily, NPR, The BBC, Literary Hub, The Tamron Hall Show, and on podcasts such as Apple News in Conversation, Pulling the Thread, and The Joseph Campbell Foundation Podcast.