Unlocking the Power of Your Shadow
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
DREAM WITH US, and we’ll teach you how to interpret them!
Connie Zweig, author and Jungian therapist, joins us to explore the next level of shadow-work. This transformative practice identifies and integrates the repressed or disowned parts of ourselves, fostering deeper self-awareness, authenticity, and personal growth. These hidden dimensions often emerge in our relationships, politics, and cultural conflicts as unconscious projections and behaviors.
By examining them—through dialogue, myth, and active imagination—we can move beyond shame, denial, and blame, transforming painful patterns into sources of emotional richness and empathy. Accepting and learning from our shadow is not only a path to healing but a moral responsibility, ultimately paving the way for more authentic relationships, social engagement, and spiritual practice.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:04.2 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart, and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:09.7 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues of the day. |
| 0:19.4 | I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, |
| 0:24.9 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, |
| 0:31.1 | and Cape Cod. |
| 0:46.5 | Thank you. Well, we're so excited today to have Connie's week back on the podcast. |
| 0:50.3 | We've had her on a couple times before, and they've always been Blockbuster episodes. |
| 0:51.8 | So welcome again, Connie. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:56.0 | It's super exciting to have you on talking about these particular books, which I'll mention a minute, because as I think I've said before, |
| 1:00.9 | I first came across your work when I started at the Philadelphia Young Seminar in 2000, |
| 1:07.0 | and we had to, we were assigned one of your books, and it's still sitting right over there in my shelf. |
| 1:13.1 | It's been a real, a real wonderful guide and it's a great introduction and a very deep one. |
| 1:19.5 | There we go to the topic. |
| 1:20.8 | So Connie Zweig is a retired Jungian therapist, an author of Meeting the Shadow, which now has a new edition, |
| 1:30.5 | and romancing The Shadow, which also has a new edition. And we're having her on to sort of mark |
| 1:37.4 | the new editions coming out. Her award-winning book, The Inner Work of Age, shifting from |
| 1:43.2 | role to soul, extends shadow |
| 1:45.2 | work into midlife and beyond, and explores aging as a spiritual practice. |
| 1:50.4 | Her book, Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path, The Dance of Darkness and Light, and Our |
| 1:54.8 | Search for Awakening, extends shadow work into religion and spirituality. |
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