Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life - Hardcover

Johnson, Robert A.; Ruhl, Jerry M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585425869 ISBN 13: 9781585425860

Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher, 2007

Synopsis

An esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels readers on how to address feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life, explaining how to enable a more meaningful, spiritually based existence in the face of unfulfilled goals. 25,000 first printing.

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Review:

aAs one grows older and lifeas choices seem to diminish, itas easy to regret the roads not taken, which then lead to an inability to embrace your life as it is now. A remedy can be found in Johnson and Ruhlas wonderfully insightful, possibly even life-changing book. . . . This book is intelligent, refreshingly free of psychobabble and best of all heralds the power of the imagination to transform and possibly keep you out of trouble.a
a"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

?As one grows older and life's choices seem to diminish, it's easy to regret the roads not taken, which then lead to an inability to embrace your life as it is now. A remedy can be found in Johnson and Ruhl's wonderfully insightful, possibly even life-changing book. . . . This book is intelligent, refreshingly free of psychobabble and best of all heralds the power of the imagination to transform and possibly keep you out of trouble.?
?"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

"As one grows older and life's choices seem to diminish, it's easy to regret the roads not taken, which then lead to an inability to embrace your life as it is now. A remedy can be found in Johnson and Ruhl's wonderfully insightful, possibly even life-changing book. . . . This book is intelligent, refreshingly free of psychobabble and best of all heralds the power of the imagination to transform and possibly keep you out of trouble."
-"Publishers Weekly" (starred review)

Synopsis:

We all carry a vast inventory of abandoned, unrealised or underdeveloped talents. These do not just "go away" through underuse or by discarding them. Instead they go underground and become troublesome - sometimes tormenting - as we grow older. In "Living Your Unlived Life", using warmth, humour and elegant simplicity, the renowned therapist, Robert Johnson, writing with long time collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist, Jerry Ruhl, helps us understand our own heritage of unlived life and how it must be examined and transformed if we are to make peace with ourselves and others in middle age and beyond.The authors provide intelligent ways to explore paths not taken, without causing damage to ourselves and to others. They show how to: identify those unfulfilled hopes, yearnings or needs that have gone "underground"; discover how we unconsciously burden others, friends, spouses, colleagues with our unlived hopes; create new life options and unlock hidden talents; transform fruitless fantasies or "silly" dreams into tools for inner growth; start truly living in the present moment; and revitalise a connection with God and spirit and attain peace in purpose in our mature years.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jeremy P Tarcher
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1585425869
• ISBN 13: 9781585425860
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272