By Connie Zweig — 2025
A guide to working through the inner obstacles of late life and embracing the spiritual gifts of aging.
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When I retired from clinical practice several years ago, I let go into the unknown. I felt tentative, uncertain, yet knowing intuitively that I needed to heed the call.
One of Erikson’s most important contributions was to describe this as a psychosocial phenomenon—an interaction between someone’s sense of who he or she is as a person and society’s recognition of that person as an individual.
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How can Daenerys Targaryen help us understand personal identity? Find out as Hank continues our exploration of personal identity, learning about Hume’s bundle theory and Parfit’s theory of survival through psychological connectedness.
Should seniors lift weights? Are there benefits to strength training after 50? Yes, and yes! Here are 13 things you will benefit from by building stronger muscles, no matter how old you are. You are never too old to improve your health, and lifting heavy things will help you do that.
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Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is the co-author of Meeting the Shadow and Romancing the Shadow, and the author of Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality and a novel, A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi.
In this episode, John W. Price interviews author, book editor, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist, Dr. Connie Zweig.
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Connie Zweig, PhD, talks with host Tim Carpenter. Connie is a retired therapist, co-author of "Meeting the Shadow" and "Romancing the Shadow," author of "Meeting the Shadow of Spirituality" and a novel, "A Moth to the Flame: The Life of Sufi Poet Rumi.
Today Hank is building on last week’s exploration of identity to focus on personal identity. Does it in reside in your body? Is it in the collective memories of your consciousness? There are, of course, strengths and weaknesses to both of these ideas, and that’s what we’re talking about today.
Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.