The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels on how to cope with
feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open
to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be
changed.
In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson,
writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry
M. Ruhl, offers a simple but transformative premise: Our abandoned,
unrealized, or underdeveloped talents, when they are not fully
integrated into our lives, can become profoundly troublesome in midlife,
leading us to depression, suddenly hating our spouses, our jobs, or even
our lives. When our unlived lives are brought to consciousness, however,
they can become the fuel that can propel us beyond our limitations?even
if our outer circumstances cannot always be visibly altered.