Deborah Lukovich

You’ll Have Fun & Learn How to Launch Your Own Book Too It’ finally going to happen. I’ll be sharing my crazy midlife journey in my coming memoir, When Sex Meets God: a midlife story. Tentative launch date is June 15th, which is my birthday, and official launch team tasks will begin in April. Before then, I’ll be asking for feedback on my cover, help with determining key words, and opportunities to share links to my free content to build my credibility with your network. In this post, I share a little bit about how my memoir came about and what it means to be on my... Continue Reading

The Role of the Doorway It’s that time of year again. The momentum and anticipation started in the weeks leading up to the Thanksgiving holiday. For some, anxiety about family sets in quickly and for others it is indeed the most wonderful time of the year. Before we know it, we will find ourselves in the psychological space of new beginnings without really thinking too much about it. Maybe you always laugh and quickly come up with some resolutions right before or after the stroke of midnight. Or maybe you really do give it some serious thought, but no matter how determined and inspired... Continue Reading

Finding Deeper Meaning in Your Film Viewing Experience. If you’re like me, you’ll go see a movie simply because Brat Pitt is in it. It doesn’t matter what role or how big a role, I’ll be there or be square. It’s been a while since a movie has intrigued me on a depth level, and I have to say it took me until the end of Bullet Train (Leitch & Fuqua, 2022) to appreciate the secret message that was being delivered via the collective unconscious, but I got it eventually. I haven’t fully processed it though, and this is one of those films I will have to go back and see, I’m not... Continue Reading

The 3 Ps: A New Framework for Finding the Deeper Purpose of Relationships This really happened a few weeks ago on my morning walk. After the brilliant idea burst out of my unconscious, I laughed at an obvious hidden motivation behind my obsession with this daily ritual. I now was a living example of how moving your body (the feminine) in partnership with the mind (the masculine) invites innovative ideas to take shape as they burst into consciousness. I was contemplating how to begin a depth psychology coaching session with a couple. There had been an unusually dramatic conflict the week before.... Continue Reading

Did you get my book yet? Thank you if you did, and please consider leaving a review on Amazon or Goodreads. If you haven’t purchased it yet, consider getting it from Bookshop.org if you want to support local bookstores. Or, you can now listen to me read Chapters 1-14 on my podcast, Dose of Depth. Chapter 13–Complexes Complexes simply are patterns of behavior and thinking that are rooted in our earliest childhood years. Simply is not how they manifest however, and many patterns that were once neutral and helpful can suddenly become problematic. Because complexes get triggered or are... Continue Reading

Hey blog readers, have you checked out my podcast – Dose of Depth? Through conversation, stories, and education, we explore the deeper meaning of ordinary life experiences. I’m nearing 1,000 downloads of 30 different episodes. Listen to engaging conversations with authors, PhDs, a yoga instructor, a relationship coach . . . We take on topics like integrating marginalized people into fictional works, finding the personal in the universal, tending images of collective fear, whether Christianity can evolve out of patriarchy, creative monogamy, dark religion, and the deeper meaning of romantic... Continue Reading

In a recent episode of my podcast – Dose of Depth, I continue reading from my book, Your Soul is Talking. Are You Listening? 5 Steps to Uncovering Your Hidden Purpose. By learning the language of the unconscious, you will notice the subtle messages a deeper part of you is sending to get your attention. After sharing all the different ways your unconscious speaks, my book goes on to offer a framework for decoding and finding meaning in the messages. Sometimes, flashes of insight come quick and other times it takes months and even years to fully grasp the meaning of the image. My personal... Continue Reading

Generation X is what they named my species, and I am proud to say I was part of the first batch. We resisted the baby boomer view of the world. Maybe after having been swept up in social justice and anti-war movements, baby boomers overcompensated in their zeal for personal achievement and wealth accumulation. Maybe they had a right to focus on themselves for a while. Did it get out of hand? I don’t know. I’m not an expert in that. What I remember about my own coming of age were two things. The first was feeling excited about possibilities to do things women hadn’t done before. Of course,... Continue Reading

In my most recent ,podcast episode, I chat with yoga instructor, ,Julie Breedlove Montemerlo, of Wise Waves Wellness, who describes herself as a music lover, mother, wife, optimist, marketing professional, and constant student of life. We talk about yoga but not in the way you might think. By now, you might have heard me describe my experience two years ago of getting up the courage to leave my hometown behind, along with my professional persona to go live in a Florida beach town. The ghost-town feel of my two-day stay in Nashville on the way down seemed to be a perfect metaphor for this in... Continue Reading

Do You Know What Patriarchy Really Is? Seems like a good time to reflect about the bigger and deeper picture right now. Patriarchy doesn’t only play out as inequality between men and women, or oppression of women by men. All forms of inequality, injustice, exploitation, and rigid ideologies are rooted in patriarchy, which many don’t realize is rooted in geographical trauma. Patriarchy wasn’t a natural evolutionary urge nor was it inevitable. Patriarchy represents a one-sided valuing of the masculine (not meaning man) at the expense of the feminine (not meaning woman). Children... Continue Reading