{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Personal Kosmology","title":"From Rock ’n’ Roll to Jungian Psychotherapist | John W. Price","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":6585,"description":"John W. Price signed his record deal in blood. Then he became a single father with a crib beside his bed and no idea who to be.\n\nHow do you grow up, make a living, and become someone others can depend on without losing what makes you alive?\n\nJohn’s path took him from touring musician to Jungian psychotherapist through unexpected fatherhood, sobriety, meditation, and a psychology class that moved him to tears. A student who had scraped by suddenly found himself earning straight A’s. He eventually earned a doctorate in Jungian psychology.\n\nBut the fire never went away.\n\nIn this episode of Personal Kosmology, we explore what happens when a life built around freedom and intensity meets the demands of caring for someone else. We talk about the people who helped John find his way, the therapist whose 90-day challenge became five years without alcohol, and the fear that becoming quieter might cost us our spark.\n\nWe also get into the difference between growing older and growing wiser, and what happens when we lack role models or rites of passage to guide us. Adulthood asks us to find our place within society. Elderhood asks us to go further: to challenge society and help it evolve. That takes discernment, responsibility, and enough of our original fire to question the world we have learned to inhabit.\n\nIN THIS CONVERSATION\n• Music, belonging, and the freedom to be yourself\n• Unexpected single fatherhood and the end of an imagined future\n• Sobriety and the power of someone who can challenge you\n• Meditation, ambition, and the fear of losing your edge\n• Discovering psychology after years of struggling in school\n• Jung, spirituality, and the limits of certainty\n• Therapy, authentic connection, and what it means to care\n• Maturity, mentorship, and tending your fire\n\nWhat part of yourself have you worked hardest to keep alive as you’ve grown up?\n\nABOUT JOHN\nJohn W. Price, PhD, LPC, is a depth psychotherapist, musician, and host of The Sacred Speaks. He co-founded The Center...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/kLXNCOLMRmPXStMTgWCjEZUlm9PaHyn73cAJMCAaEo4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81M2Nm/NTNmNTc4MmVmZjI4/YmVjZTEwMDFmNzU1/ZWFiZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}