Drawing Power from Your Shadow

The goop Podcast

Goop, Inc. and Audacy

Society & Culture, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this special episode, psychotherapists and collaborators Barry Michels (New York Times–bestselling coauthor of The Tools) and Kristan Sargeant guide us through exercises designed to help us connect with our shadow. The shadow, as they explain it, is an often maligned part of your personality that has the potential to change your life in unexpected ways. “You can have intimacy with a part of yourself that you've been judging, abandoning, neglecting, denying,” says Sargeant. “That allows you to take on challenges and take risks and actualize on hunches and inclinations and dreams and desires that are percolating inside of you but you can't quite find the courage or clarity to pull the trigger on.” To go deeper, check out the week-long workshop Michels and Sargeant are hosting this July. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	When you are pioneering anything or introducing new ideas to the culture, you get criticized.
0:09.6	You do?
0:10.6	Yeah, did you hear about that?
0:12.4	I didn't find the one.
0:14.1	I found someone I respected and we made it the one.
0:17.4	In a sort of longing kind of view of love, people understand each other as if by magic.
0:22.6	Nothing in itself is addictive, on the one hand.
0:24.9	On the other hand, everything could be addictive if there's an emptiness in that person that
0:28.9	needs to be filled.
0:30.1	I now know that nobody changes until they change their energy.
0:34.6	And when you change your energy, you change your life.
0:38.4	I'm Gwyneth Poundtrow.
0:40.0	This is the GOOP podcast, bringing together thought leaders, culture changers, creatives,
0:46.2	founders and CEOs, scientists, doctors, healers and seekers, here to start conversations,
0:53.2	make us simply asking questions and listening has the power to change the way we see the world.
0:59.3	Here we go.
1:01.4	We're mixing things up with a special episode today.
1:04.2	In just a moment, I'm going to turn you over to two brilliant therapists for what we hope
1:08.1	will be an impactful exploration of self.
1:11.7	One of these therapists is mine and someone I've worked with personally for years.
1:17.0	Barry Michaels is the New York Times bestselling co-author of The Tools.
1:21.9	He has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 1986.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Goop, Inc. and Audacy, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Goop, Inc. and Audacy and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.