“Defining Life Realistically” is Carl Jung‘s third task of his Seven Tasks of Aging. The last ten years have been a major reality check for me. I’m still trying to find my balance. When we “cling to illusions that are contrary to reality, then problems will surely arise”, according to…
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MOM’S LIFE REVIEW When my mother was in her nineties, she became obsessed with telling me stories of her life. I heard about people, places and experiences that she had never shared with me, or perhaps anyone, before. I understood her need to go back and revisit her life having…
View More CARL JUNG’S LIFE REVIEW – Tasks of AgingI began my Manifest Me blog a little over a year ago. It’s hard for me to fathom how far a person can travel on the inner journey in such a short period of time. When going through change and upheaval the passing of time seems interminable. The thing I’ve…
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Carl Jung’s 7 Tasks of Aging Jung viewed the aging process as a “developmental stage”, not just the passing of time until death. Through work with his patients and his own experience of aging he came to see it is a period of time when we naturally draw away from…
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Aging Abundantly sounds wonderful, doesn’t it. But it takes work. It’s an “inside job”. It seems like a hundred years ago that Sophie Lumen of The Art of Aging began to amass her spectacular following on Facebook. We stumbled across each other and immediately recognized that we were kindred spirits.…
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We are, too often, miserable when we are not doing. In our increasingly fast- paced world there is little incentive to not-do. No wonder old age terrifies us! We can’t imagine “not doing”! We are so programmed to do, do, do. There’s nothing inherently wrong with doing. It feels good…
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