Do you often feel stuck in patterns of self-sabotage, nihilistic depression, lack of creativity, and compulsive behaviours that hold you back from reaching your full potential?

This is a very common problem that has a somewhat counter-intuitive solution. Keep reading to find out what it is.

In our drive to be more liked and successful in getting what we want in life, we carefully craft an image of ourselves that we project into the world. This image is scrubbed of all undesirable behaviours, attitudes, and emotions.

This often starts in early childhood, when we notice that expressing negative behaviours or emotions gets us punished, and acting “nice” gets us rewarded. So we continue to act this way into adulthood, pretending like all those negative behaviours and emotions don’t exist.

They become our shadow: a psychological term for everything about ourselves that we can’t or refuse to see.

Instead of learning how to deal with our difficult emotions (like anger, hatred, rage, jealousy, or desire for sex and power) in a healthy way, we try to avoid feeling them altogether by distracting or overstimulating ourselves.

This strategy of suppressing aspects of ourselves can work temporarily, but in the long run in backfires and creates many problems for our mental, emotional, and physical health. Indeed, the widespread epidemic of mental illness in developed countries is directly related to this.

By disowning seemingly negative aspects of ourselves, we cut ourselves off from our own inner source or energy, creativity, and wisdom. This also reduces our ability to feel authentic joy, flow, curiosity, and love.

The process of re-owning all these repressed parts of ourselves is called integrating the shadow.

Signs that you have not integrated your shadow:

Do any of these sound familiar to you?

When we were younger, we both suffered from many of these problems. It got so bad that it became unbearable.

Separately, we both came to a point in our lives when something inside of us snapped, and we each decided that enough was enough. Something had to change. We started reading books about the unconscious, practicing meditation and contemplation, and trying to uncover the monsters that lurked in our respective minds.

The 2 biggest challenges of doing shadow work

Shadow integration is no walk in the park. The biggest challenge when it comes to this work is being honest with yourself about your unconscious behaviour and repressed emotions. Most people think of themselves as “nice and decent”, and simply don’t want to admit to themselves that they have all those unsavoury parts buried deep within.

The good news is that everyone has a shadow. That’s just called being human; there is no shame in it. Admitting it is the first step.

The second biggest challenge is the syndrome of “I already know this”. If you’ve read some books about the unconscious and done some shadow work yourself, it can be very tempting to think that you have it figured out already.

We have spent many years doing shadow integration work ourselves. Anytime we thought we were “done”, life always found a way to knock us over the head and remind us otherwise. We eventually adopted the Beginner Mind: an attitude of humility and openness, remembering that there is always something more to learn.

After lots of trial and error and sifting through the many (often ineffective) methods of working with the shadow, we found the ones that really produced transformation and condensed them into a course.

Whether you’re a change-maker, entrepreneur, executive, educator, parent, or simply someone deeply dedicated to their personal evolution, this course on Integrating Your Shadow is designed to support you in your transformation.

This course is for you if…

What will shadow integration mean for you?

The famed psychologist Carl Jung believed that making the shadow conscious is a path to spiritual awakening.

At the very least, integrating your shadow is an essential process for reaching mature adulthood (which is unfortunately more rare than people think!).

Completing this course will arm you with a toolkit you can use for the rest of your life. By the end of it, you will not only understand the material theoretically, but be able to experience it and apply it practically.

Don’t let yourself be stuck in the same old patterns of self-sabotage, nihilistic depression, and compulsive behaviours that are holding you back.

Take the Integrating Your Shadow course today and unleash your authentic joy, creativity, wisdom, and energy to make meaningful progress towards actualizing your full potential.

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