Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Deb Bowen and I'm Samantha Faye and we are just

delighted and honored that you have joined us once again this week. Samantha and I have an interesting

show topic for you this week that we've been working on for a right good while because it's taken us

a while to pull the materials together for this particular episode. We're going to be talking about

your shadow self and your shadow self isn't something to be frightened of. We're going to use words

that may seem a little frightening like your dark self but that means unknown or hidden. It doesn't

mean bad or evil. So we're going to define what a shadow self is for you and we're going to talk

how we can learn and grow and change in our lives when we bring that shadow self out into the light

and realize that that is really a wonderful part of who we are when we embrace him or her in another

way. So Samantha you want to start us off with some information here? Yeah I wanted to start with my

definition of a shadow side and then I wanted to share a quick article with everyone that I hope

will illustrate that there's a lot of positive aspects to having a shadow side. We all have one.

We all do. The shadow is the part of ourselves that we believe our friends or our family won't find

acceptable. It's pushed into our subconscious and it's even hidden from ourselves. When we do this,

when we hide from our shadow, it sends a message to our conscious that something is wrong with us

and that we have something to hide. By not bringing our shadow side into the light,

we will continue to believe messages like I'm not lovable, I'm not worthy. But when we bring that

shadow into the light, that's when we can heal and truly become light workers. So I wanted to

start by sharing an article that I used to have my students read all the time when I taught English.

It's called Why We Crave Horror Movies by Stephen King. And I'm sure you guys are like what does

this have to do with shadow work? If you all could see me, you would know that as she is saying

she's rolling her eyes. She's rolling her eyes. She's rolling her eyes. Rolling my eyes. That's true.

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