Archive - Psychology of Finding Home

Life is always both/and, not either/or

Aug 25, 2023 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

June 2023

Your heart and lungs need to come home

Making meaning out of metaphors

Jun 10, 2023 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

January 2023

What Feels Like Home - Part 2

Calm, Chaotic, Quiet, Noisy, or...?

Jan 28, 2023 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

When Safety is Shattered

A Look at Home from the Eyes of a Girl

Jan 19, 2023 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

What Feels Like Home

Beyond a place . . .

Jan 12, 2023 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

October 2022

There's a Spirit in Your House

Personification and Projection of Self: Mark Twain, me, and a few movies

Oct 21, 2022 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

June 2022

But… HOW do you find Home?

A conversation with Dr. Annalisa Derr that explores the theories behind my work and the preliminary questions for discovering your place in the world.

Jun 22, 2022 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

July 2021

Peter Rabbit, Imagination, and Our Sensory Love of Home

Today is the birthday of Beatrix Potter, who reminds us that imagination can be the glue that binds us to home.

Jul 28, 2021 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

We all have a need to belong. In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, belonging is smack in the middle of the pyramid, right there with love.

Jul 16, 2021 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

Nostalgia forms when we long for a place and time created in our young minds, which may or may not have a basis in reality. What we are really mourning…

Jul 7, 2021 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

April 2021

The Landscape of Home

The landscape of our childhood is imprinted on our psyches and stored in our bodies. The places where we played will always be home.

Apr 20, 2021 •

Jan Peppler, PhD

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