The Inner Work of Age by Connie Zweig

Author:Connie Zweig [Zweig, Connie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality/Aging
Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
Published: 2021-06-26T00:00:00+00:00

We have moved far beyond the traditional life review. We have moved from telling our conscious tales to reframing them with new eyes. We have moved from detecting our unconscious tales to reclaiming them in late life. And we have moved from identification with past stories and their wounds, past roles and their limits, toward identifying with soul.

At the deepest level, we are not our stories. We are not what we do—or what is done to us. But the shift in identity from story to soul is a radical one. Letting go of our stories runs against the cultural grain. Elders everywhere today are writing memoirs and recording videos. And when they say “I’ll live on in people’s memories,” they mean their stories will live on.

So, this shift may be aspirational. But in the next chapter, we’ll explore how we might make it manifest.

Of course, in pursuing a life review, some of us may not find the thread hiding beneath the stories of victory and defeat, gain and loss, suffering and well-being, meaning and meaninglessness. We may continue to feel sorrow or regret about how our lives turned out. We may grieve that we have not fully lived.

So, let’s continue with life repair to reclaim what was banished into the shadow, take responsibility for our choices, speak our truths, forgive ourselves and others, realign our values, and make meaning for this time of life, here and now.

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