When we work with the shadow, the aim is not to get rid of parts of ourselves, it’s to reclaim them.

Each of us is born whole, like a 360-degree ball of human potential. When we push parts of ourselves into shadow, our anger, our neediness, our laziness, our selfishness, we aren’t removing something bad, we are hiding valuable internal resources. At the centre of every shadow is gold.

Shadow Work is about bringing these parts back into awareness and reintegrating them, learning how to use them consciously and safely, rather than being driven by them unconsciously.

When you step into a shadow part on purpose, you stop being controlled by it unconsciously. You gain choice, integration and access to the gold at its core.

The aim of Shadow Work is wholeness and integration, conscious access to all the parts of you.