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 ...

Shadow work is a buzzy word in both the mental health and spiritual realms. You’ve probably seen a number of social media posts asking you to tap into your “shadow self” and learning to love your ...

Earlier this year, a spiritual coach and reiki healer who goes by the name Zen Oasis posted a video to TikTok explaining the idea of “the shadow self” to her 167,000 followers. Sitting lotus-style in ...

The latest mental health trend on TikTok is a curious one. “Shadow work” is rooted in ideas developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, repackaged into a viral book written by a self-help author and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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