Welcome to The Man Talk Show.

I'm Connor Beaton.

And today I'll be sharing the third installment of the four-part series that I put together

for Mental Health Month in May.

And I'll be sharing the arguably one of the most important things that I put together for Mental Health Month in May, and I'll be sharing the,

arguably one of the most important things that I did for myself in my mental health journey,

which is discovering my shadow. So this episode is about how I discovered my shadow and how I

begin to integrate it. I'm going to talk a little bit about deep therapeutic work within this

episode. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to define what the shadow is,

just give you a little bit of an understanding and context if you aren't familiar with it

and maybe add a little bit to it if you are very familiar to it with it.

I'm going to talk about how I came into contact with my own shadow and sort of discover

it and integrate it.

And then at the end of the episode,

I'm going to give you some very tactical things that you can start to implement to understand

your shadow and begin to work with and begin to integrate it. And I'm going to give you very

specific questions that you can use for journaling as a means of prompting you so that you can begin to unearth what your shadow

looks like. So the shadow, in my opinion, is arguably one of the most important parts of our

development as human beings. And Jung believed that in many ways, it was at the beginning of our

journey in our process of of creating wholeness,

of not just individuation, but of being able to find meaning and fulfillment within our lives

as human beings. And he said that everyone carries a shadow and that the less embodied that that shadow is in the individual's

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