What Is Shadow Work?

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What Is Shadow Work?

by Jessica Amos

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4.8

Type

talks

Activity

Meditation

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Everyone

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24

Shadow Work helps us integrate the hidden parts of ourselves (e.g., shame, guilt, trauma, sadness) that we often hide from. It's tough to sit with uncomfortable feelings, but avoiding them keeps us stuck. By facing these shadows, we start to see that they're not as scary as they seem. Think of it like becoming your own best friend, and witnessing yourself with compassion instead of judgment. When you do this, deeper acceptance, healing, transformation and authenticity happen. Please note: This practice is not a replacement for professional medical or mental health care. Ready to start? Take my 12-Day Shadow Work Toolkit Course!

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Meet your Teacher

Salem, OR, USA

Meet your Teacher

Salem, OR, USA

Transcript

Hi there. So what is shadow work? What is shadow work? That is the question I am here to answer for you today. It's a very big question that a lot of people have. But first, My name is Jessica Amos. I'm a mindfulness meditation teacher. And I have a course here on Insight Timer. It's 12 days. It's called The Shadow Work Toolkit for Deep Learning. Healing. But in its simplest forms, The way that I see shadow work is that we are integrating all parts of ourselves back into ourselves because you know and I know that we can't get to this point in our lives without having actually separated out from maybe the parts of ourselves. Maybe there's some shame, Maybe there's some guilt, Maybe there's some really difficult Emotions or grief or things that have happened in our life. Maybe we've experienced some trauma or just some Experiences we didn't have control over that are still living within our minds and our hearts and our bodies and our whole energy Fields and and we feel that they're here, Right? We feel that these things are here, But they're hard to sit with we don't know what to do with them Maybe we even behave out of them sometimes or are we sick? Things and we're like, This isn't who I am, This isn't who I am. And I know that that's the point that I reached when I started doing shadow work. I was like, There's just these ways that I'm acting and behaving and things that I'm saying and doing and living. This is not who I really am, But where is this coming from? And that's when I had to begin to face maybe the shadow. And it can sound a little bit scary, But also we all have it, And it's a part of life, And it's a part of living. And as I started to face these parts of myself that maybe felt a little scary, I began to see, Oh, It's not so scary. It ties really wonderfully in with my inner child healing course that I also have here. We're starting to witness ourselves, We're starting to witness our lives, We're starting to come in as a loving witness and friend. Friend and ally to ourselves through facing the shadow, Acknowledging the shadow, And realizing there's a lot for us to learn with the shadow aspect of ourselves. So whether you struggle with even depression or self-doubt, Hatred or self-acceptance or family systems, It's all right there for you in the shadow work. And so the course I created is really to help you as you begin to face the shadow, As you begin to look. Underneath the hood of your life, So to speak, I'm offering you practical tools. That you can actually use to move through some of the things that come up for you in shadow work. So whether that's through, Through mental, Emotional, Physical, Spiritual practices that you can bring in, That's really what I'm here to support you with. So I hope that helps you give like a little, A little bit of understanding of what shadow work is and why you might want to embark on the journey and just know that it's, It's part of just becoming the expression and the most authentic that you possibly can be and it is 1, 000% some of the most beautiful work you could ever do. Until next time, May you stay with yourself today and always.