Dose of Depth
Welcome to Dose of Depth. I’m your host, Deborah Lukovich, PhD, and I invite you into conversations that explore the field between us.
Together we’ll examine dreams, relationships, creativity, leadership, organizations, and the ordinary moments that quietly reshape our lives. Through stories, conversations, and depth psychology, we’ll ask not only why something happened, but why now and what is trying to emerge through our experience.
This podcast is for people who sense that life is always speaking through relationships, conflict, attraction, loss, joy, and the unexpected synchronicities that seem to appear at just the right time. We’re less interested in having the right answers than in cultivating the conditions where new understanding can emerge.
Some episodes may offer a profound insight. Others may make you laugh at the strange symbolism of your own life.
I hope that each conversation helps you become more psychologically sovereign, more available to your own unfolding, and more aware of what is ripening in the field between you, others, and the world.
So pull up a chair. Let’s explore what is trying to emerge.
Dr. Deborah
Dose of Depth
The Hidden Impact of Patriarchy (on Men and Women)
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What if patriarchy isn't simply a social system... but a psychological wound that lives within all of us?
In this episode, I explore the hidden ways patriarchal conditioning shapes our identities, relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and sense of self. Drawing from my own journey and themes from my memoir When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling, I discuss why healing isn't about blaming men or women. It's about integrating the parts of ourselves that have been split apart.
I also reflect on a conversation with William Diplock of Gender Equity and Reconciliation International (GERI) about men's experience of the patriarchal wound and why compassion for both the feminine and masculine is essential for deeper relationships and genuine transformation.
Link to blog post: https://www.deborahlukovich.com/post/the-hidden-impact-how-does-patriarchy-harm-men-too
Link to my chat with black veteran Mark Ross, host of Speak Your Truth podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gaw2XlCxMUs&t=2115s
If you've ever felt caught between strength and vulnerability, achievement and authenticity, sexuality and spirituality, this episode may offer a new perspective.
Topics include:
• the patriarchal wound in women and men
• Carl Jung and depth psychology
• sexuality and spirituality
• masculine and feminine integration
• healing relationships
• individuation and psychological growth
• When Sex Meets God: A Midlife Unraveling
Deborah Lukovich, PhD
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