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

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.