Connie Zweig Quotes

#1. Shadow-making happens in families and makes us who we are. It leads to shadow-work, which makes us who we can become.

Connie Zweig

#2. As each layer of shadow is mined from the darkness, as each fear is faced and each projection reclaimed, the gold shines through.

Connie Zweig

#3. Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves and you can open up to the arrival of a new archetype, the birth of a new cycle of life. In the shadow, then, lies our myth and our fate.

Connie Zweig

#4. Each of us wrestles with the dark giant in our own way.

Connie Zweig

#5. The shadow disguises itself in our projections, when we react intensely to a trait in others that we fail to see in ourselves.

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#6. The rewards are profound. Shadow-work enables us to alter our self-sabotaging behavior so that we can achieve a more self-directed life.

Connie Zweig

#7. To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

Connie Zweig

#8. Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.

Connie Zweig