Introduction to Shadow Work

A Grounded, Live Exploration of Patterns, Emotions, and Inner Awareness 

This live, 4-week online container is an introduction to shadow work; a way of understanding the emotional patterns, reactions, and inner conflicts that shape how we relate to ourselves and others.

Shadow work isn’t about fixing yourself or digging endlessly into the past. It’s about learning why certain emotions feel hard to hold, why familiar patterns keep repeating, and how parts of you learned to hide in order to stay safe.

This space offers education, reflection, and gentle practices to help you understand your inner world with more clarity, compassion, and choice.

Live on Four Sundays

Feb 8, 15• Mar 1, 8, 2026
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST (via Zoom)

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What This Space Is (and Isn’t)

This container is:

  • An educational and experiential introduction to shadow work

  • A space to build awareness, language, and self-understanding

  • Grounded, paced, and supportive, not intense or confrontational

This container is not:

  • Therapy or a replacement for mental health care

  • A quick fix or emotional breakthrough experience

  • A place for forced vulnerability or emotional exposure

What You’ll Get

  • ✺ Live Group Sessions (two/month)

    Two-hour Zoom sessions in a small group. Each month includes one teaching and reflection session and one integration and discussion session. These are guided conversations designed to help you slow down, notice patterns, and apply what you’re learning.

  • ✺ Foundations of Shadow Work

    A clear, accessible introduction to what shadow work actually is, where it comes from, how it works, and why it shows up in everyday life. The focus is understanding, not intensity.

  • ✺ Private, Moderated Community Space

    A quiet, intentionally held space for reflection and connection.
    Not chatty. Not performative.
    Designed to support integration without emotional outsourcing.

  • ✺ Somatic Practices

    Optional, gentle practices to support regulation and awareness, helping you stay present with emotions rather than overriding or suppressing them.

  • ✺ Projection, Triggers & Relational Patterns

    Learn how emotions like anger, shame, guilt, and fear often show up through reactions, judgments, and relationship dynamics and how to work with them without self-blame.

  • ✺ Integration Tools

    Learn how to walk with your shadow beyond the container through compassion, self-trust, and emotional sovereignty.

How the Container Is Structured

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Week 1: Meeting the Shadow

We begin by understanding what the shadow is, how it forms, and why it exists. You’ll learn how family systems, culture, and early experiences shape the parts of us that learned to stay quiet or hidden, not as flaws, but as adaptive responses.

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Week 2: Projection & the Mirror

This week focuses on how the shadow shows up in everyday life through triggers, emotional reactions, and relationship patterns. We explore how noticing these moments creates information, not shame.

Week 4: Integration & Inner Sovereignty

The final week focuses on integration; how awareness turns into lived change. You’ll learn how to relate to emotions and patterns differently so insight becomes something you practice, not just understand.

Week 3: Embracing the Exiled Self

Grief, anger, guilt, shame, fear; we explore how certain emotions became difficult to hold, and what happens when we learn to meet them with curiosity instead of suppression.

Payment Options

This offering is available through three self-select pricing options:

  • Supported Tier — $25

  • Sustainer Tier — $50

  • Supporter Tier — $100

All tiers provide the same access to the container. Please choose the option that best reflects your current financial capacity.

After selecting your tier, you’ll be directed to a secure checkout page to complete payment and finalize your registration.

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Frequently asked questions

  • The Shadow Self is a live, four-week online container focused on understanding and integrating the parts of yourself shaped by shame, fear, anger, grief, and unmet needs. This work blends education, guided inquiry, journaling, and somatic practices to support lasting emotional awareness and integration.

  • No. This container is educational and reflective in nature and does not replace therapy, counseling, or medical care. While the work can be deeply meaningful, it is not designed to diagnose, treat, or resolve mental health conditions.

  • No prior experience is required. This container is appropriate for both newcomers seeking orientation and those with experience who want to deepen their understanding in a structured, grounded way.

  • Emotional responses are a normal part of this work. The container is intentionally paced, with an emphasis on nervous system awareness and self-responsibility. Participants are encouraged to move at their own capacity and seek outside support if needed.

  • There are four live sessions held weekly. You can expect optional journaling or reflection between sessions, but nothing is required beyond what feels sustainable for you.

  • Live attendance is strongly encouraged to support relational depth and continuity. Limited replays may be provided, but this container is designed as a live, participatory experience rather than a self-paced course.

  • This container may not be the right fit if you’re seeking fast fixes or prescriptive solutions. The work focuses on understanding patterns, building awareness, and cultivating integration over time.

  • We explore how the shadow shows up in everyday life—through reactions, relationships, self-worth, guilt, grief, and emotional patterns—and how these dynamics can be met with clarity rather than avoidance or self-judgment.

  • Readiness often looks like curiosity, honesty, and a willingness to sit with discomfort without needing immediate answers. If you’re seeking understanding rather than fixing yourself, this work may be supportive.