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Connie Zweig: How We Self-Sabotage: Understanding Your Shadow
Description
SHADOW is a Jungian concept that refers to those traits we have suppressed in ourselves that may be waiting to find expression in our lives. This week Connie Zweig PhD returns to the podcast to talk about shadow-work for conscious relationships.
We explore:
- How the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships
- Why we can become caught up in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, or addictions.
- How the shadow forms in childhood and how to detect it when it emerges
- Making a conscious relationship to the shadow, and choosing different outcomes.
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, writer, and Climate Reality Leader. Known as the Shadow Expert, she has written several books about shadow-work, including Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature and Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life, both of which have recently been reissued. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years, and is a wife, stepmother and grandmother.
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This week supporters will hear:
- Psychology of Evil
- Three Things Connie Zweig knows to be true.
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Follow Up
Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin
Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things
Read Connie Zweig’s books:
Explore Connie Zweig’s Substack, Shadow Work to Expand Awareness
Listen to Connie Zweig’s podcast with her husband,