Hello, welcome back to the Self-Helior Soundboard and thank you for tuning in with us.

We've been diving into some deeper workbook episodes where we've been pulling the content

and practices from our new workbook, How to Meet Yourself off the pages and out to the

world on this podcast or this video cast that you can watch on YouTube.

Most recently, episode 90, we began ego work. That episode is titled How to Do Ego Work.

Episode 92 is then all about shadow work and I referenced these last two because ego and shadow

both play a part in our episode today where those two episodes were pulled directly from the

workbook. So I suggest going back to them, episode 90 and episode 92. You could even pull out a

notebook and pen or a notepad on your phone to take notes or reflections or even save those questions

for you to do an inquiry later. And today's episode, we are continuing that conversation

more in a personal aspect. While many learn directly from the prompts and tools and practices

that we give, many of you also learn through hearing, hour sharing and personal stories,

either resonating or identifying that you do not resonate, which is also such valuable feedback

for you. So we're going to open up a conversation today about our own ego stories.

So without going into too much detail about ego and shadow and like Jenna suggested,

checking out those episodes can be very, very helpful, but so we're all starting at the same point

here. Really simply, our ego can be thought of as the story of you based on an accumulation of all

of your childhood experiences, really all of your life experiences. Ego really becomes the narrative,

all of the different ways many of us have learned to think about ourselves. So we can think about the

ego as the story of me in many ways and then we can think about the shadow as all of the denied

or repressed, all of those aspects of ourself, our experiences, even aspects of who we are that

have been kept out of our own awareness again based on those earliest childhood environments. So

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