Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (887 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1585426997 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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There is gold in the shadow J. Richard Johnson This is not a book to just read in the ordinary sense of the term. This is a book that is best judged by the results it produces for the reader, and the reader will need to work, not just read, to attain them. I read the book. I did the work. I gained some splendid benefits. For that reason, the following essay is as much a testimonial as a review.We all have unlived lives. In the process of making the decisions that defined our destinies, we decided not to do other things, which often were things we . "Wise but not specific for midle age" according to M. T. Crenshaw. Living Your Unlived Life is a short Jungian book that synthesises and develops many of Johnson's previous books on shadow work, dreamwork and active imagination, and mixes it with some reflections on archetypes, complexes, and Depth Psychology from Ruhl. The narrators use the first person, so one cannot distinguish what comes from whom. However, the book feels whole and coherent. Johnson's impromptu is clear if you have read others works by him, though. As in most of Johnson's books, a Greek myth that. Five Stars Dolores S. Anderson very good, thank you.
The book is intelligent, refreshingly free of psychobabble and best of all heralds the power of the imagination to transform and possibly keep you out of trouble. From Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. As one grows older and life's choices seem to diminish, it's easy to regret the roads not taken, which then lead to an inability to embrace your life as it is now. A remedy can be found in Johnson and Ruhl's wonderfully insightful, possibly even life-changing book. (Oct.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Jungian psychologists and the co-authors of Contentment, Johnson and Ruhl believe the roads-not-taken needn't be cast aside; they can—and must—be integrated into present-day life and used to find new opportunities for fulfillment and wholeness. . All rights reserved. How? By engaging in what the a
. He is the author of Ecstasy: Understanding the Psychology of Joy. Johnson is a noted lecturer and Jungian analyst. Robert A
Johnson, writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M. The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed. In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Ruhl, offers a simple but transformative premise: Our abandoned, unrealized, or underdeveloped talents, when they are not fully integrated into our lives, can become profoundly troublesome in midlife, leading us to depression, suddenly hating our spouses, our jobs, or even our lives. When our unlived lives are brought to consciousness, however, they can become the fuel that can propel us beyon