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Shadow Work Toolkit For Deep Inner Healing

With Jessica Amos

Through heartfelt and conversational teachings, learn to look inward, take ownership of your emotional pain, and transform your depression, trauma, grief, and loss into deep healing, wholeness, and peace. If you are experiencing what is often called “the dark night of the soul” and desire practical, tangible, and down-to-earth tools for how to support yourself and love yourself more deeply during this time, this course is for you. One part encouragement, one part mindfulness toolbox, and one part permission slip to put yourself back on your list of priorities, this course teaches you the definition of “shadow work” and why it’s essential for deep emotional healing, as well as for discovering a multitude of easy-to-do modalities, practices, and processes to help facilitate, nurture, and accelerate your healing journey.

Delve into mindfulness tools, practices, and teachings for healing depression, trauma, grief, and illness through Shadow Work.

12 Days

11.8k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

English

About this course

Shadow Work Visualization

Presence Practice

Somatic Presence

Meet your Teacher

Jessica Amos

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Salem, OR, USA

Jessica Amos is a mindfulness teacher, life coach, punk rocker, and the founder of Stay with Yourself: The Practice of Being Who You Are, Where You Are. Having spent most of her life struggling with severe anxiety, Jessica came to meditation as a last-ditch effort to find deep inner peace and happiness, and it changed her life for the better forever. Through the power of acceptance and non-judgment, Jessica’s teachings are heartfelt and conversational. Her teachings and meditations are off the cuff, fueled by her desire for you to feel like you are connecting intimately with a safe and trustworthy friend. She hopes you feel deeply supported and valued through her teachings and meditations, as well as encouraged to trust yourself to heal and grow in accordance with your own inner guidance. Jessica is passionate about creating an open-hearted learning environment accessible to everyone. She believes meditation and mindfulness help you embrace yourself with compassion and grace, as well as encourage you to rewrite your personal narrative through deep emotional and psychological healing, so you can live a life of peace, clarity, and joy. She warmly invites you to join one of her top-rated mindfulness courses, weekly livestreams, and Stay with Yourself Circle here on Insight Timer to connect further.

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12 Days

11.8k students

4.8 stars

15 min / day

English

Lesson 1

Defining Shadow Work + BEcoming One Self

Shadow Work is about the integration of Self and becoming one Self – not being fragmented within your mind, body, heart, and spirit. Perhaps you feel there are some parts of you that are acceptable and some part of you that aren’t acceptable. This is fragmentation and it’s the cause of all suffering, pain, depression, fear, and rejection. Shadow Work is not about changing who you are. It’s about feeling all your feelings deeply, healing your inner wounds, and accepting all part of yourself as you are right now, with compassion and love.

Lesson 2

Start Here

BEing present with yourself and the truth of your safety in this moment is the foundation for this course. Establishing energetic boundaries, creating self-care rituals, engaging in little pleasures, giving yourself grace when you are triggered or feeling BIG feelings, allowing for everything in you to be looked at with curiosity - these are essential for creating a safe container for yourself to engage in deep inner healing and shadow work. You are not here by accident. Welcome!

Lesson 3

Going Inward + Feeling Your Feelings

Suppressed emotions lead to recurring triggers, traumas, co-dependency, depression, illness, and suffering of all kinds. You need to “feel it to heal it” - and that’s exactly what we are here to do. Learning to listen to your feelings with love and compassion, instead of rejecting them, invites your feelings to be fully felt and released. Going inward and feeling your feelings puts an end to your chronic pain cycle and frees you up to create a life of peace, clarity, and joy.

Lesson 4

Primal Release

An important part of Shadow Work and feeling your feelings fully, is giving yourself permission to throw a fit and experience the full release of the emotions you are carrying in your body. Scream, cry, dance, yell, thrash in whatever way feels good (and safe) for you. This practice isn’t about anyone else (or for anyone else). This is yours to do, which means it’s also important for you to find safe places, spaces, and environments that are appropriate for this type of expression and release. This is a deeply clearing, cleansing, and cathartic practice for anyone who is feeling anger, aggression, frustration, or resentment.

Lesson 5

Body Work

Part of releasing emotions from your body and healing from within, is helping your body move old, stuck, and stagnant energies out through body work modalities such as massage, acupuncture, yoga, lifting weights, dancing up a sweat, stretching, and more. Body work not only releases tension from your body and relieves built up stress, it also creates endorphins that help you feel more alive, hopeful, and engaged in life with more clarity and joy, which then gives you stamina for going even deeper into your Shadow Work process.

Lesson 6

Nervous System Reset

Unprocessed emotions, past traumas, and toxic energies get stuck and cause chronic stress to your nervous system, which is the cause of anxiety, depression, triggers, and reactivity. When you have a really strong emotional reaction to something that causes you to feel out of control, it’s because this constant, fearful feeling is embedded in our nervous system from past experiences, causing chronic dis-ease. Resetting your nervous system through the various modalities shared in this lesson is an essential part of doing Shadow Work for deep inner healing.

Lesson 7

Nature Therapy

Nature is one of your greatest allies and healers when it comes to doing deep inner healing work. Going inward, feeling your feelings, and tapping into the patience and courage it takes to engage in Shadow Work can be tiring, vulnerable, and raw. There’s nothing quite like going outside, breathing fresh air, putting your feet in the grass, and turning your face toward the sun when you are in need of respite and recharge. Even sitting with your houseplants or looking out the window for five minutes does wonders for the heart and soul. Let nature be your guide, your healer, and your dearest friend as you heal from within today.

Lesson 8

Become The Observer

To observe your emotions, your shadows, your mind, your body – all aspects of yourself – is to bear witness to your own life, heart, and desires, with curiosity, compassion, and love. You are your greatest friend and ally. Who better to witness you, see you, and do this healing work with You, than You? No one knows the details of everything you’ve been through better than you. When you become the observer, there’s nothing you need to do, there’s nowhere you need to go, there’s nothing you need to know. You get to just BE with yourself as witness, friend, and ally. Today’s lesson encourages You to be there for You, fully and completely, allowing all aspects of yourself to be seen without shame or judgment.

Lesson 9

Soul Food

Part of healing your inner world is learning to have an intimate relationship with your Soul – that ephemeral part of you that can’t quite be described but you know is there because of how it responds to beauty, art, poetry, music. You Soul is the part of you that feels love, connection, belonging, joy, and total freedom. It’s always right there within you, ready to delight in life itself. Part of healing from depression, trauma, anxiety, and chronic illness is engaging in the beauty that surrounds you and feeding your Soul with it regularly. Find what delights you and keep moving toward it.

Lesson 10

Building Trust

Until you begin to feel safe within yourself and learn to trust yourself, you will continue to feel scared, depressed, and re-traumatized in your struggle to trust others and feel safe in the world at large. Learning to trust and feel safe can feel like one of the trickiest and most confusing aspects of your healing process because past traumas, hurts, and experiences get embedded into your perceptions and create a smokescreen of mistrust and lack of safety. This lesson is a continuation of all the lessons that have come before as we explore how you can keep taking steps and creating small changes in your life that will help you feel safe, at ease, and more trusting of yourself and others as you heal and learn to live with an open, unguarded heart.

Lesson 11

Facing Your Pain

At the core of Shadow Work and deep inner healing is a willingness to look at and face your pain. BEing with your pain and honoring all that is coming up for you, and all you’ve experienced in your life, without numbing out, trying to escape, or putting it off for another day, is the most courageous path you can choose for yourself. It requires faith, hope, belief, and a willingness to envision yourself living your life with more peace, clarity, joy, and freedom. It also requires you to get comfortable with discomfort and learn to sit with the pain that’s gone unacknowledged for way too long. When you do this, you find there was nothing to fear to begin with, and all you ever needed was the gift of your own attention.

Lesson 12

Final Encouragement

Everything is connected – heart, mind, body, soul. When you heal one thing, you heal everything. Keep going to the places that scare you and shining light on what has gone untended in the darkness of your being. Go into the shadows and find a scared version of yourself waiting there for you to reach out your hand, stand as witness, and say, “I see you. I’m here for you. You’re not alone.” By this you gather yourself back up and you are no longer fragmented. You are whole once again. Continue showing up with courage and faith as you trust that all is forgiven, all can be healed, and there’s nothing to fear when you are on your own side. May you stay with yourself today, and always.