What is Healing The Shadow?

Who grows by only looking at the bright side of things?

Philosopher & priest, Richard Rohr

Healing The Shadow - a type of shadow work - is a deep process psychotherapy and will include embodied parts work if it works for you to use this technique.

In Healing The Shadow, we believe that all parts of you are trying to help, no matter how challenging, obstructive or unpleasant the ways in which they manifest.

Most of the time, for most of us, our experiences and interactions with the world around us take place through the complex web of our internal filters. As these are frequently hidden from our awareness, we have little or no conscious choice over how they act and so we will tend to see others not as they are, but as we are.

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

In your sessions with me, I will work alongside you to find and start to develop understanding and connection with wounded parts of you that may have been hidden for many years. These parts 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.

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

I will support and facilitate you in shadow work sessions that aim for inner transformation and the healing of some of the deep emotional wounds that will have caused parts of you to go into shadow in the first place.

Shadow work is an opportunity for deep personal re-integration.

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

“Every shadow is ninety percent pure gold”

C.G. Jung

Read about carpet work on this page of the site.