Inner Work 127: A Deep Dive into Shadow Work
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
What is shadow work? And how can you do it responsibly and effectively?
This episode of Inner Work explores the shadow as a "dark aspect of the personality", in the words of Carl Jung. Your shadows are aspects of yourself that, for whatever reason, you've deemed as unacceptable or shameful. And so you repress these aspects into the subconscious. However, your unexamined and un-integrated shadows will continue to make themselves known and influence your behavior in one way or another.
So, this episode addresses:
- what is shadow work?
- secondary and primary shadow archetypes (which do you recognize in yourself?)
- key principles and suggestions to make your shadow work as effective and transformative as possible
- how to avoid spiritual bypassing when doing shadow work
- a 4-step method for doing shadow work as an ongoing practice in your life
Here's the blog post where I outline my 4-step shadow work method, in case you want to refer to that:
https://josephinehardman.com/how-to-do-shadow-work-a-4-step-guide/
To connect with me, you can visit www.josephinehardman.com or send a note to me@josephinehardman.com
Thank you for tuning in! Please take kind and compassionate care of yourself -- and your shadows.
Music & editing by G. Demers
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| 0:00.0 | This is Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast, a place to explore our spiritual concepts, |
| 0:19.3 | tools, and practices to deepen your healing and awakening. |
| 0:24.1 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman, a certified intuitive healer and Akashik Records practitioner and teacher. |
| 0:31.6 | I'm honored that you're here and happy to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. To check out my services |
| 0:40.0 | and courses, please visit josephinehardmann.com. Let's talk about shadow work. If you are on my |
| 0:52.3 | email list or follow me on other channels like Instagram, you |
| 0:57.0 | might know that I recently wrote a long blog post on what shadow work is and how we can do it |
| 1:03.9 | responsibly and effectively. I also wanted to feature this topic on the podcast because it's so important. |
| 1:11.9 | And I often get this request to do an episode on this. |
| 1:16.8 | So I'll be expanding in some ways on that blog post. |
| 1:21.1 | And if you want to go ahead and read that, maybe you learn better by reading or you absorb |
| 1:26.3 | the material better. |
| 1:28.0 | So I'm going to include a link to that in the show notes if you want to check it out. |
| 1:33.7 | But let's dive right in. |
| 1:35.8 | So the term shadow work often comes up in spiritual and self-development circles. |
| 1:41.9 | It has been defined in so many different ways. And of course, there are many |
| 1:47.6 | different approaches that you can take to do this kind of healing work. So for our purposes, |
| 1:54.6 | we can think of shadow work as a particular kind of inner work. It requires us to face our shadow aspects and either |
| 2:04.5 | transmute them or shift our relationship to them so that they're no longer driving the bus, |
| 2:12.2 | so to speak, and no longer influencing our behaviors and choices subconsciously. |
| 2:19.9 | Because here's the thing. |
| 2:20.9 | Your shadow aspects typically are buried deep in the subconscious, |
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