Awakening at Midlife
by Kathleen A. Brehony
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Author: Kathleen A. BrehonyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-09-01
ISBN: 1573226327
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
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Summary: 5 Stars
In this midlife classic, Kathleen Brehony undertakes to unravel the meaning of midlife crisis through a Jungian lens, and why the symptoms often appear in the prime of life, when people have finally achieved so many things they worked so hard for.
Carl Jung saw midlife as a natural and necessary passage to becoming a whole human being. Describing it as the emergence of our `unlived selves', he suggests that it's built into the structure of the Self, and is a unique opportunity for growth. As carefully crafted public masks crumble as our `shadow' - beliefs and behaviors repressed through social conditioning - seek release and authentic expression.
The poet Robert Bly who wrote A Little Book on the Human Shadow, notes that we spend half our lives putting parts of ourselves into the shadow and the other half trying to take them out again. Its no surprise that lives built on false foundations can dramatically upset our balance!
Midlife still catches most of people by surprise, and is often misdiagnosed and misjudged. Therapists who fail to recognize its complexity may treat it as depression with Prozac, without understanding it as a necessary part of the journey to individual growth. This book offers a holistic viewpoint of midlife as a search for wholeness, and includes exercises for ways to give unexpressed parts of yourself a voice.
The good news is that midlife requires only three things of us: integrity, trust, and courage. A bite-sized prescription of how to navigate the passage smoothly might be summed up as: Act in alignment with your insights.
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