Are you operating in the Light or the Dark?

Emotional Badass

Nikki Eisenhauer

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Archetypes carry light and shadow attributes that show up in your daily life. The Companion brings loyalty until it betrays confidences or loses identity in codependency. The Samaritan helps people you'd ignore until they're recording good deeds for social media validation. Servants give freely until they're carrying people with functional legs, building resentment. Mentors refine character until they stomp on students who surpass them. The Avenger balances justice until righteousness becomes cancel culture. Shadow work isn't optional because rainbow-and-bunnies healers miss half the human experience. RESOURCES: WORK WITH NIKKI 1:1 30 DAYS TO PEACE COURSE PATREON COMMUNITY INTRO TO BOUNDARIES THE BOUNDARIES INTENSIVE BOOK CLUB NARCISSIST ABUSE RECOVERY WORKSHOP THE FREE MORNING ROUTINE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER SIGNUP THE PATTERNSCAPES WELLNESS DECK BRAIN FM: CODE: emotionalbadass for 20% off your membership FOLLOW US: YouTube Instagram Facebook TikTok Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Now, it has been said that we aren't truly healed or integrated until we learn to also
0:05.9	consider in love our shadow side. That's why healers who are all rainbows and bunnies and light
0:14.6	and love miss a big part of the human condition. Therapists who think everything can be gentle and soft,
0:23.7	miss the importance of the integration of understanding our dark side as human beings.
0:30.5	So I hope that if archetypes are new to you, that this opens you up to more of a fullness,
0:43.6	the richer human experience that you have as a full human being. We don't have to be scared of or resistant to this darkness that does reside inside of all of us.
0:52.5	Hello, welcome to the show. This is Emotional Badass, where a Moxie meets
0:57.6	mindful. I'm your host, Nikki Eisenhower, life coach and psychotherapist. And on today's episode,
1:03.5	we're exploring archetypes, our light and shadow attributes.
1:13.2	All right, y'all.
1:21.3	So I have pulled today 13 cards from Caroline Mises archetype deck.
1:25.2	And the cards that I've pulled have a similar theme.
1:29.3	I would say it's the helpers, the servers. And I've pulled 13 of those cards. I'm going to shuffle them and we're going to explore together. Now, archetypes are
1:35.5	stereotypes, really. It's why stereotypes are not bad. Stereotypes are just patterns. If we add
1:41.9	hatred to our stereotypes, that's when they become a problem.
1:46.3	But archetypes are simply our psychological stereotypes that have developed over time.
1:52.7	We all know these stereotypes. There are things like teacher and mother and goddess and martyr. These are the psychological patterns that have
2:05.3	emerged over the course of human history. So when we explore these concepts from Carl Jung's
2:13.5	psychology, this is from Jungian psychology, What we're really exploring are how these different
2:19.3	archetypes show up inside of ourselves, externally in the world internally. What is light,
2:27.6	right, good, positive, and what is dark, the shadow, the mistakes, the hiddenness that we can hold in that shadow
2:40.8	part of ourselves as human beings. So let's get into it. All right, I'm going to shuffle these up.
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