Illuminating the Shadows Guided Journal Workbook: 90 days of Shadow Work for the Soul Suitable for Beginners and Beyond

Shadow Work can be defined as getting in touch with your negative emotions, so you are able to process them in
a healthy and helpful way. For many people, it's easy to identify with our positive emotions, loosely labelled peaceful, powerful, happy. The darker emotions, sadness, anger, and fear, tend to be pushed down, repressed, and suppressed. We instinctively notice that it is more "difficult" to face these emotions. Instead, we unconsciously get triggered, defensive, or act impulsively based on this "dark side" of our psyche.

All humans feel negative emotions AND positive ones. Conscious shadow work can bring to the surface unprocessed triggering feelings so that we can process them, feel them, and release our attachment to them.

Bringing the shadow side of your emotions out into the light helps you form a new relationship with the side of yourself that you may see as shameful, unlikable, unreasonable, or wounded. As you expose these hidden thoughts, you become able to make new connections, new choices, new patterns of thought and action, and new outcomes.

Some things you may experience from doing this work:

Self Compassion
Understand Your Triggers
Respond, rather than React
Break patterns of Self-Sabotage
Get unstuck from resistance to what is
Uncover unhealthy coping mechanisms
Let go of unhealthy responses and defenses
Let go of the tendency toward self-judgement
Develop, Create, and Enforce healthy boundaries
Heal from traumas you experienced or witnessed
Uncover source of addictions and break dependency
Become more comfortable with yourself in any situation
Quit self-destructive behaviors and develop healthy habits
Improved thoughts, feelings, and actions in your interactions with others
Learn the "why" behind unwanted response patterns (so you can break them)
Lean into learned behaviors in the effort to unlearn them (as opposed to resisting or ignoring)
Learn how your patterns were useful to you in the past, and see how they could be harmful as you grow
The Author is a Certified Life Story Coach, skilled in guiding you to rewrite the story of your actions, beliefs, and life.