029: The Shadow of Aging w/ Connie Zweig

This week’s guest is with the brilliant Connie Zweig, a retired therapist and coauthor of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow and author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of a Sufi Poet Rumi. 

Connie’s most recent bestselling book, The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, extends her work on the Shadow into midlife and beyond and explores aging as a spiritual practice. It won both the 2021 American Book Fest Award and the 2021 Best Indie Book Award for best inspirational non-fiction. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years. She is a wife, stepmother, and grandmother. After all these roles, she’s practicing the shift from role to soul.

We’re exploring:

• What is the shadow of aging
• What the impact is on our culture of a shadow of aging
• The lessons of mortality awareness
• Why and how death is a teacher
• How come legacy is a gift
• The importance of doing our shadow work
• The connection of the individual shadow to the collective shadow 
• And SO MUCH MORE!

To connect with Connie, simply email her at [email protected]. Her books, including her latest bestseller The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul, is available anywhere you buy books. 

Connie also mentioned Wisdom Circles for those looking to do the Inner Work of Age together and you can get involved in one by emailing Connie.

The 1 year training Connie mentioned in the episode (and recommended!) can be found here: https://www.sage-ing.org/.