Hello, and welcome back to the Self Healer Soundboard.

This episode we are diving back into our workbook series for how to meet your self.

If you are just joining us or tuning in, we have been going into a deep dive of our

new workbook, which you can find at howtomeatyourself.com that will link various retailers also around

the world for you to purchase. And if you do not have this new workbook how to meet yourself,

then that is entirely okay. We've actually intentionally created these episodes so that we can

pull the content from the pages and still give access to as many people around the world, whether

or not you have access to the actual physical copy of the book. Last episode in our How to Meet Your

Self Workbook series, we began a discussion on the ego, how to begin ego work. We will be

continuing in a conversation of the ego. And this episode, designating it to meeting our shadow,

which much like the ego is something that we want to work to integrate and almost befriend in

our healing journey. So if you are following along, we are beginning on page 123, meet your shadow

of section three in the workbook. I'm actually sitting here listening to you intro it, the word

counter part, and I've popped into my head when I smile. And I think about the shadows and a lot of

ways, the shadow is the ego's counterpart though, the shadow is often overlooked. Upon intended,

we'll talk a little bit about the shadow is though, I think it also is given a really bad wrap,

but much like the ego, and I suggest anyone tuning into those episodes, there is so much value and

so much we can learn as we begin to non judgmentally, of course, view these aspects of our self,

because much like the ego, I've yet to meet a human being who doesn't have a shadow. And what

the shadow really is simply, as often as the case, the shadow consists of all of the denied or

repressed. So all of the parts of our self that are kept out of our own awareness, we don't even

realize oftentimes these things about ourselves. And of course, why do we end up denying aspects of

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