Connie Zweig || Embracing Your Shadow
The Psychology Podcast
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4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today we welcome the Shadow Expert, Dr. Connie Zweig. She is a retired therapist, writer, Climate Reality Leader, and Citizens Climate Lobbyist. She is the co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and the author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality. Her latest book is called The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, which has won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction.
In this episode, I talked to Dr. Connie Zweig about embracing the shadow. We often associate the shadow with negativity, but it’s not necessarily bad or sinister. The shadow is composed of repressed feelings and messages in our unconscious, which can erupt out of control. According to Dr. Zweig, we must develop a conscious relationship with our shadow by doing inner work - especially as we age. As we near the end of our lives, it’s crucial that we conduct a life review to help us repair emotionally and spiritually.
Website: conniezweig.com
Twitter: @innerworkofage
Topics
02:33 Dr. Connie’s interest and expertise
06:17 What is “the shadow”?
12:54 How to confront the shadow
14:22 The inner ageist
18:44 Letting go of “doing”
24:01 Elder is a stage, not an age
28:00 The purpose of a life review
32:09 Emotional repair
34:37 Depth psychology
39:50 Spiritual repair
47:12 From role to soul
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| 0:00.0 | I'm not talking about pedophiles. That's not what I'm talking about or |
| 0:04.1 | serial murderers, you know. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about kind of every day |
| 0:11.0 | outbursts or you know experiences of a part of us that we feel we can't tame, we can't control. |
| 0:24.9 | Hello and welcome to the Psychology Podcast. Today we welcome to the show The Shadow |
| 0:29.5 | Expert. Dr. Connie Zweig. Connie is a retired therapist, writer, climate reality leader, |
| 0:36.1 | and citizens climate lobbyist. She's the co-author of Meeting the Shadow, |
| 0:40.5 | Promancing the Shadow, and Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality. Her latest book is called |
| 0:45.6 | The Inner Work of Age, Shifting from Roll to Soul, which is one both the 2021 American Book Fest |
| 0:51.6 | Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for Best Inspirational Nonfiction. In this episode, |
| 0:58.0 | I talked to Dr. Connie Zweig about embracing the shadow. We often associate the shadow with |
| 1:03.1 | negativity, but it's not necessarily bad or sinister. The shadow is actually just composed of |
| 1:08.4 | repressed feelings and messages in our unconscious, which can erupt out of control. According to |
| 1:13.7 | Dr. Zweig, we must develop a conscious relationship with our shadow by doing inner work, especially as |
| 1:19.6 | we age. As we near the end of our lives, it's crucial that we conduct a life review to help us |
| 1:24.3 | repair emotionally and spiritually. It was a real honor chatting with Dr. Connie Zweig, because |
| 1:30.4 | I've long been fascinating with notions of the shadow, and I've been a big fan of shadow or |
| 1:36.5 | and what it can really do to help people bring to the surface things that they really have not |
| 1:40.7 | accepted about themselves. As Carl Roger says, it's only when you accept yourself, then you can change. |
| 1:46.6 | I also resonate with her work a lot because I'm really into the notion of the dimonic. It's not |
| 1:51.1 | the dimonic, but the dimonic, which is a notion that role may talk about a lot. You know, the |
| 1:56.1 | dimonic is whatever is within us that has the power to overtake the whole person. It can be used |
| 2:00.4 | for destructive purposes or creative purposes. Dr. Zweig has really influenced me a lot in many ways, |
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