Shadow work is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the parts of the psyche that people often keep hidden, such as trauma and resentment. Some people may refer to this as the “shadow self”. The ...

Shadow work is the process of exploring the unconscious reasons behind your feelings or behaviors, particularly uncomfortable emotions that seem out of character or beyond your control. For example, ...

Do you ever get the sense that you have a dark side? Are there parts of you you’d rather keep hidden? These are common feelings, and it turns out that they may hold some truth. Some experts even ...

Interested in kicking off your own shadow work healing journey? Here’s what you need to know. This concept stems from psychoanalyst Carl Jung who defined the shadow as “the unconscious part of our ...

These past few years have felt like an unrelenting confrontation with the darkest facets of human nature. Multiple quarantines and the inescapable news cycle have left us with precious little respite ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. To understand what shadow work is, we must first define the “shadow.” The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who is perhaps Sigmund Freud’s most famous ...