The Gifts of a Life Review of Your Lived and Unlived Life with Clients 50+ with Connie Zweig, Ph.D.

The traditional life review is a well-known tool for people 50+ who wish to recall memories, release conflicts, and find forgiveness. I describe this  as the ego's life review, the story that we consciously lived. But we know from psychology that the personal unconscious, or Shadow, carries its own stories. I will add the dimension of Shadow to bring a deeper perspective to this tool. We will explore how to connect what was expressed in an individual life with what was repressed and unlived. In this way, the unlived life moves into conscious awareness, and people can reclaim some of what was sacrificed—lost dreams, talents, and opportunities for reconciliation and healing. 

Learning Objectives:

• Define the purpose of a traditional life review.
  
• Identify a key pattern in your life story.
  
• Describe how to review your unlived life.
  
• Identify a feeling, trait, talent, or dream that was buried in the Shadow.
  
• Identify one of them to explore one of them now.
  

BIO:

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired therapist, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi. Her new bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her exploration of the Shadow into late life and teaches aging as a spiritual practice. It won the 2021 American Book Fest award for inspirational non-fiction in health. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for 50 years. She is a wife and grandmother and was initiated as an Elder by Sage-ing International in 2017. After investing in all these roles, she is practicing the shift from role to soul.