What is Healing The Shadow?

The shadow work that I am trained in is called Healing The Shadow. It is a deep process psychotherapy and includes embodied parts work.

As a shadow work facilitator I believe all parts of you are trying to help, no matter how challenging, obstructive or unpleasant the ways in which they manifest.

Much of the time, our experiences and interactions with the world around us take place through the complex web of our internal filters. As these are frequently out of our awareness we have little or no conscious choice over how we see the world.

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are”

(S Covey / A Nin)

Our internalised patterns arise out of our unique personal childhood experience and trauma.

In your sessions with me, I work alongside you to find and develop an understanding of and connection with wounded parts of you that may have been hidden for many years. These parts of us are never truly gone and so they play out in shadowy ways.

They may show up in over-reactions, fears that don’t make sense, a loss of joy, a sense of disconnect, loss of personal power, accidental behaviours, grief that we fear may overwhelm, rage - and many others.

I will support and facilitate you to begin the journey of transformation and the healing of the deep emotional wounds that caused parts of you to go into shadow in the first place.

Shadow work can free up significant amounts of your power and energy which may have become locked away in unconscious parts of yourself.

Working together, I offer you my skill, time, deep active listening and also space for carpet work, to potentially bring these parts out of shadow and into your conscious awareness - so that you can start to have more choices over how they show up. This work is an opportunity for deep personal re-integration.

Once we know a part of ourselves, we can start to find the gold that is hidden within it.

“Every shadow is ninety percent pure gold”

C.G. Jung

In my personal experience, this deep process therapy has considerably enriched the authenticity and warmth of my connections with others.

Read about carpet work on this page of the site.