August 11, 2025

Connie Zweig: How We Self-Sabotage: Understanding Your Shadow

45 minutes

SHADOW is a Jungian concept that refers to those traits we have suppressed in ourselves that may be waiting to find expression in our lives. This week Connie Zweig PhD returns to the podcast to talk about shadow-work for conscious relationships.

We explore:

How the unconscious erupts in our lives and sabotages our relationships

Why we can become caught up in repetitive arguments, criticism, distancing, projections, or addictions.

How the shadow forms in childhood and how to detect it when it emerges

Making a conscious relationship to the shadow, and choosing different outcomes.

Connie Zweig, Ph.D., is a retired psychotherapist, writer, and Climate Reality Leader. Known as the Shadow Expert, she has written several books about shadow-work, including Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature and Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life, both of which have recently been reissued. Connie has been doing contemplative practices for more than 50 years, and is a wife, stepmother and grandmother.

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This week supporters will hear:

Psychology of Evil

Three Things Connie Zweig knows to be true.

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Follow Up

Attend Andrew's new men's retreat, Reconnect With Yourself, this autumn in the Brandenberg countryside near Berlin

Get Andrew’s free guide to difficult conversations with your partner: How to Tell Your Partner Difficult Things

Read Connie Zweig’s books:

Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature

Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work for a Vital, Authentic Life

The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul

Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening

Explore Connie Zweig’s Substack, Shadow Work to Expand Awareness

Listen to Connie Zweig’s podcast with her husband, Dr Neil’s Spiritual Awakening to Non-Duality

Visit Connie Zweig’s website https://conniezweig.com

Follow Connie Zweig on Twitter @InnerWorkofAge and on Facebook at @Dr.ConnieZweig

Take a look at Andrew’s new online relationship course: My Best Relationship Tools

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