Healthy Self-Awareness vs Unhealthy Navel-Gazing: What’s the Difference?
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“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” -Carl Jung. Self-awareness is a double-edged sword. Too much of it and you can become an introspective navel-gazer. But at the same time, as John Calvin said, “without knowledge of self, there is no knowledge of God.” In this episode, John and Jonnie talk about what healthy self-awareness looks like versus unhealthy navel-gazing. While we aren’t able to control everything that happens to us, we are given some agency in some aspects of life - and good therapy and healthy self-awareness can help us see the difference. And this isn’t just humanism - understanding yourself is a part of understanding the gospel.
Plus, John gets a fancy new watch and helps Jonnie confront a scammer on the phone. Meanwhile, Jonnie writes a new jingle for a prescription drug and takes credit for a friend’s grammy nomination.
John mentions: More Than Your Number: A Christ-Centered Enneagram Approach to Becoming AWARE of Your Internal World
Today’s episode is NOT sponsored by Duvets: “For people who love their comforter, but only if it’s wadded up inside of another comforter.”
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