Welcome back to another episode on the Aaron Dowdy podcast.

My name is Aaron Dowdy and today I want to share with you some of the most powerful insights

that I have ever had around shadow work, around understanding how to make the switch and

relieve childhood trauma, childhood patterns that may be running your life and you may

honestly be somewhat unaware of it too. And this is going to be like a no bullshit

episode on how I've been doing shadow work for over the last year and a half, two years

now. I mean technically much longer than that. But a lot of the stuff I've learned that

has been the most powerful. I have learned in the last six months to a year. So what I

want to do is I want to share with you what some of those are kind of take you through

my own transformation and then show you my shadow work integration process that I use

in my own life. And a lot of this has to do with the masculine, feminine polarity within

myself. Some of this has to do with the childhood trauma. I think in general a lot of the stuff

in our lives is a direct reflection of what we crave, what we need, what we want. It's

a reflection of our own childhood experiences. And I want to share with you a little bit

about what this looks like. I just got back from Costa Rica. I was in Costa Rica for about

10 days. And I did a plant medicine out there. Plant medicine includes ayahuasca and

waquma, which is San Pedro. And it's a cactus. They're both powerful lessons and teachers.

And we go, we do these retreats a couple times a year. And we go to Costa Rica. And

we have amazing shaman out there that have been doing it for 20, 30 years that we feel

very safe with. And basically anytime I do plant medicine, it's a mixture of me learning

how to let go, let go of trying to control shit in my life, let go of the past, let go of

attachment, and how to be. How to just be in the present moment. And it seems like these

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