Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life: A Shadow Work Book
Connie Zweig, PhD · Steve Wolf
Feb 2009 · Wellspring/Ballantine
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The classic, provocative bestselling guide on shadow work that “enables you to peel away the layers of your soul and get in touch with the purity of Being that lies within you” (Deepak Chopra, M.D.).
“A consummate and timely work . . . An exciting entry into the growing literature on the dark side of the soul. There is deep wisdom and nourishment here.”—New Age Journal
Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore. But as therapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf show in this landmark book, the shadow can actually be a source of emotional richness and vitality, and acknowledging it can be a pathway to healing and living an authentic life. “Romancing the shadow”—meeting your dark side, accepting it for what it is, and learning to use its powerful energies in productive ways—is the challenging and exciting work that Zweig and Wolf offer in this practical, rewarding guide.
Drawing on the timeless teachings of Carl Jung and compelling stories of men and women whom they have helped in their clinical practices, Zweig and Wolf reveal how the shadow guides your choices in love, sex, marriage, friendship, work, and family life. With their innovative methods on shadow work, you can:
• uncover the unique patters and purpose of your shadow
• learn to defuse negative emotions
• reclaim forbidden or lost feelings
• achieve greater self-acceptance
• heal betrayal
• reimagine and re-create relationships
• cultivate compassion for others
• renew creative expression
• find purpose in your suffering
The shadow knows why good people sometimes do bad things. Romancing the shadow and learning to read the messages it encodes in daily life can deepen your consciousness, imagination, and soul.
“A consummate and timely work . . . An exciting entry into the growing literature on the dark side of the soul. There is deep wisdom and nourishment here.”—New Age Journal
Beneath the social mask we wear every day, we have a hidden shadow side: an impulsive, wounded, sad, or isolated part that we generally try to ignore. But as therapists Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf show in this landmark book, the shadow can actually be a source of emotional richness and vitality, and acknowledging it can be a pathway to healing and living an authentic life. “Romancing the shadow”—meeting your dark side, accepting it for what it is, and learning to use its powerful energies in productive ways—is the challenging and exciting work that Zweig and Wolf offer in this practical, rewarding guide.
Drawing on the timeless teachings of Carl Jung and compelling stories of men and women whom they have helped in their clinical practices, Zweig and Wolf reveal how the shadow guides your choices in love, sex, marriage, friendship, work, and family life. With their innovative methods on shadow work, you can:
• uncover the unique patters and purpose of your shadow
• learn to defuse negative emotions
• reclaim forbidden or lost feelings
• achieve greater self-acceptance
• heal betrayal
• reimagine and re-create relationships
• cultivate compassion for others
• renew creative expression
• find purpose in your suffering
The shadow knows why good people sometimes do bad things. Romancing the shadow and learning to read the messages it encodes in daily life can deepen your consciousness, imagination, and soul.
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October 23, 2020
Doesn't focus on day to day shadow work. Day to day situations and the mirror they might offer into your shadow heritage. Talks about creative gold without telling you where to find it. Or maybe its "daddy didn't like me being creative", so now by knowing this, you've found gold? And "doing the work for years" but barely spending two sentences on what the work might be. Guess a side order of therapy is needed. Instead relies on strange anecdotes the writer somehow feels are important. Guess this was a book on archetypes and mythology. Great, maybe put that in the title and introduction? The "client" anecdotes are gross oversimplifications and run of the mill cause effect examples of "shadow". To her maybe its great stuff, not to me as a reader. Worst book on shadow work, I've read. Waste of time. If you happen to be identical to the writer, guess you're the intended audience. Otherwise skip this one.
About the author
Steve Wolf, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist who developed shadow-work and offers psychotherapy in Los Angeles.
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., author of the award-winning book The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, and author of Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Story of Sufi Poet Rumi. Podcaster on Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality with her husband. Available on all podcast platforms.
Connie Zweig, Ph.D., author of the award-winning book The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, and author of Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Story of Sufi Poet Rumi. Podcaster on Dr. Neil's Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality with her husband. Available on all podcast platforms.
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