Out of difficulties grow miracles
—Jean de La Bruyère
What is Shadow Work?
Shadow Work involves integrating our conscious selves with the aspects of our personality that we typically repress, like our shadow sides. Repression can manifest through denial, resistance, or unawareness.
By approaching these aspects with love and tenderness, we learn to embrace and welcome the darkness within us. It's within this embrace that true healing unfolds. Often, we're unaware of what lies behind our fear, disconnection, and suffering.
Shadow Work leads us directly to the heart of the matter, where we gain understanding of what's holding us back from authentic aliveness and what we truly desire for ourselves.
How I approach Shadow Work
This can be a deeply calming and introspective process. I start by guiding you into a relaxed state, then invite you to focus on a concern or question you'd like clarity on. This shifts our attention to the emotional body, and as we breathe through the feelings tied to the issue, memories or images often surface. As you go deeper into the experience, we engage with these images or memories through conversation. Throughout this process, both recent and past memories, as well as archetypal symbols, may emerge. While you're fully conscious throughout, clients often describe being fully immersed in the experience. By the end of the session, most report feeling a greater sense of clarity, peace, and resolution around the topic they explored.