“Think of your favorite color, now think of the next color that pops into your head,” Luna says. “That’s your shadow work color.” Shadow work is a ritual meant to heal your “shadow self.” Your “shadow ...

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 ...

Do you have a hidden talent that you keep secret from everyone you know? Or a deep, dark fear that you keep suppressed, or an aspect of yourself that you find shameful? If so – and most people do - ...

The process of learning to be a better person or be a happier version of yourself often involves introspection. Like with shadow work, which is a type of psychotherapy that has you look inward. At its ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...