Shadow Work

Shadow Work relates closely to unhealed childhood Trauma, for this Excercise I want you to write a letter to your younger self. Explain to her what you may have hoped others would have told you, any expectations they held for you and how it affected you. Instead take the time to play out what you needed in order to grow up to a healthy life. You can add anything else you would like your younger self to know. As you do this envision your younger self as if you are listening to what your elder self is saying to you.

Processing anger in healthy ways is something that many of us were never taught. We were taught to respond and cope with this anger with unhealthy coping mechanisms, we respond with anger. Anger is a human emotion, and none of us are exempt from this emotion. It is our job to learn how to process and respond to anger in healthy ways. For this experience I want you to think of times where you were very angry, and how you responded to this anger. How could you have done things differently? How could you respond differently? It is very important that we turn to things that we love to do in order to express that anger. This could be drawing, painting, meditating, building, making crafts whatever it is that makes you happy. During this experience I want you to think of ways that you could respond to your anger by using the things that make you happy. For this specific experience we are going to draw our anger, our frustration, communicate that anger and harness it into something that you create and make beautiful. Don't be afraid to use colors, and express yourself fluidly. You can listen to music as you do this. Channeling your anger is what you are expressing as you are drawing.

Materials: Pen & Paper

As we do this experience put on the meditation, relax, light and candle find a quiet space.

Self Reflection

Mirroring Your Trauma

The Shadow Self requires a great deal of self reflection for our first experience I want you to write down three qualities in yourself that you feel need work. As you are writing these, I want you to focus on what you feel you can do to work on these qualities. Taking baby steps is just fine. Shadow work doesn't happen overnight it takes time and patience, and a great deal of self realization to work on these.

Keep in mind that the way that you view yourself may be different from others, take this time to reflect on what others have viewed you as, while writing this. Take as much time as you need going over this. Sleep with your piece of paper for three days. The third day, you will burn it outside, releasing them into the universe.