Tag: Shadow Work

The Medicine of Darkness: Honoring the Cycles Within

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As we transition into the Fall season, the shifting energies around us reflect a deeper truth that we, too, experience within. Just as nature moves from vibrant summer blooms into the quietude and rest of autumn, we are invited to honor the balance between light and dark within ourselves. 

It’s easy to resist change, to fear the unknown, and to cling to what we think we can control. But this resistance often leads to suffering, keeping us in survival mode and preventing us from embracing the flow of life.

In Fall, we are reminded of the cycle of death and rebirth. The leaves fall, creating space for new growth. Similarly, within us, there is a need to surrender to the darkness, the uncharted places we may fear, and allow them to be the fertile ground for new possibilities. 

When we release our grip and trust the process of life, we create the conditions for profound healing and growth. 

Darkness is not something to be feared but embraced. Life itself begins in the rich soil beneath the surface, where roots grow strong, before blossoming into the light. 

Just like nature, we, too, need the dark to nourish us. It’s in the descent into our shadow—those parts of ourselves we’ve rejected or disowned—that true healing begins.

This is the medicine of darkness: integration, acceptance, and ultimately, growth toward the light.

In psycho-spiritual healing, we honor the interconnectedness of mind, body, and spirit. The true magic happens when we explore the deeper parts of ourselves, not just in the intellect but in the heart and body.

Multidimensional healing, whether through therapy, bodywork, or spiritual practices, supports this process, aligning us with our innate wholeness. Those parts of you that have felt unworthy or unloved are waiting to be embraced, so they can return to their rightful place in your whole being.

This is the journey to clarity, peace, and the freedom to create the life you desire.

Through conscious awareness, we see that we are not our thoughts. The beliefs and patterns ingrained in us over time do not define who we are at our core. Beneath these layers is your true self—pure, innocent, and whole.

Fall invites us to release these old patterns, much like trees shedding their leaves, so that we may create space for a more aligned, joyful life.

This season, I invite you to explore these parts of yourself with gentleness and curiosity. As you shed the old and embrace the new, allow yourself to be supported in this process of transformation.

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Tender Rebirth: Trusting the Path of Love

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In our darkest hour, it might feel impossible to believe that something good could come of our pain.

In our moments of deep despair, we might see the world as an unsafe place for the tenderness of our hearts, and the ferocity of our love to be seen and held.

But my darling, life is not trying to break you down, it is trying to break you free.

If it’s true that we are all here to learn to love and to live fully, then it is also true that everything you experience is a doorway.

You are safe to enter.

It may feel like a very long journey, but if you keep your heart and eyes open you will see and feel the glimmers of hope along the way. Each smile from a stranger, each sunrise and sunset is there to help remind you of the simple blessings, guiding you back to love.

There is hope when you let the rain kiss your skin, or the birds sing their songs just for you.

There is hope, when the ocean crashes on the shores and you let the earth cleanse you of your sorrows.

When you let yourself be held by the very foundation in which you rest.

 

When you remember that you were never abandoned because love is all that you are.

 

Never forget the power of your intention, and the strength in your courage to forge a new path. To emerge from your cocoon as a butterfly, no matter how long it takes you to find your wings.

The tragedies and losses and heartbreaks you endure are not a punishment from God, or a sign that you are somehow broken or unworthy, or just not cut out to have what you want.

We all suffer, and we all come face to face with death – of dreams, of potential futures never birthed into being, of loved ones, of parts of ourselves we had to leave behind, of parts we’re still reclaiming.

This life is fleeting and in the end, all that matters is that you did what you came here to do – love. So please don’t close your heart for good, you are too precious to hide away forever.

Take your time, be with whatever it is you need to feel through, and when you are ready…come home.

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Embracing the Underworld: A Journey of Shadow Work and Renewal

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Collectively we are dealing with radically uncertain times. All around us, we are feeling the charged energy vibrating throughout the cosmos. You may even be feeling triggered and unstable in many areas of your own personal life.

I believe the world is experiencing a spiritual descent into the Underworld.

When I speak of the Underworld, I’m not referring to a physical place, but a metaphoric place within ourselves. The Underworld is the deepest, most hidden part of ourselves where we suppress, repress, and bury all that we don’t want to look at, see, deal with or heal.

Carl Jung refers to this as “shadow work.”

Many of us are experiencing a descent into our shadow material, to our own darkness, shedding what no longer serves us.

As we approach these deep parts of ourselves, we have the opportunity to let go; to clear the old, stagnant and oppressive energy so that we may be born again into a more expanded version of ourselves. This requires acceptance.

 

The Universe is in constant expansion and so are we. Just as we are not separate from each other, we are not separate from Nature or the Cosmos.

 

When we look around, we see everything in nature going into a deep sleep or dying away. The trees are losing their leaves, but they are not dead- they are in a time of transition where they will come back to life again in the Spring. This transition is occurring within you, too.

We are planting the potent golden seeds for a new beginning.

We’re called to have patience and enter a state of deep rest, repair, regeneration, and acceptance. To let a part of our lives, or even who we once were, metaphorically die in order to seed, sprout, bud, and bloom again.

This is called resilience.

It is a reminder to all of us –

We must trust and stay open to what is dissolving away to make room for more light, expansiveness, growth and healing.

We must be willing to let go and grieve the death of what once was and no longer needed.

It’s easy to mistake this phase of growth as one where everything that once felt safe and secure seems to be falling apart. But beneath the surface of the dormant soil, things have never been more active.

We are experiencing a phase of initiation, renewal, and rebirth. Collectively and personally.  You ought to give yourself time and space to recover and rest.

This is perhaps the most important part of our growth. And it takes faith and surrender to do it.

This is a very tender, powerful time.  Trust the sureness of the fertile soil.

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How Our Wounds Are A Divine Gift

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These are indeed turbulent times.  The world continues to challenge us, our values, our belief in the goodness of humanity.

How are you doing with it all?

I am sensing, collectively, that many of our triggers are being activated and that is not easy on the nervous system.  It’s not easy to be in our world right now. To feel the discomfort as we watch old paradigms and programs crumble in preparation for something better to be rebuilt.

Both externally and internally, we are experiencing the sacred path of transformation for the purpose of transcendence.  The new earth consciousness.

What we’re being asked to remember is that each challenge we face is an opportunity to deepen our faith and trust in ourselves.

But these challenges feel painful as we reckon with our triggers and how the old way of doing things no longer works to keep us feeling safe.

It may have played an important role in our lives at one point, but what once felt like control, now only adds to our suffering.

 

Journeying through these dark, activating times requires deep soul work. 
We’re meant to lose our inner compass in order to find the medicine within our own being to reorient ourselves. 
To find our center. Where the light never dies.

 

We meet our triggers, our wounds, throughout the many different spectrums of life.  It cannot be avoided.

But the more conscious we become, the more aware, the more we witness them, we’re given the opportunity to integrate them more.

Our wounds are a divine gift of our humanity, our great teachers.  They offer us an opportunity to experience the absolute fullness of life on this earthly plane.

If you are feeling activated by the noise and chaos of current world events, I invite you to witness yourself, drop into the sensations you are feeling in your body, and be with it.

 

This is an invitation to trust the wisdom in your body, to integrate the feelings and allow your heart to soften.

 

You are here because you matter.  Stay true to your values.  Remember who you are, why you came.

There’s so much uncertainty woven into the fabric of these times.  But your job is simply to remember that it is an invitation into deeper intimacy with our bodies, our faith, our inner knowing.

Can you feel it?

Nurture that space, invite in more love.

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Trusting the Sacred Timing in Your Healing Journey

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It can feel really frustrating when you’re trying to shift a pattern, release a behavior, forgive a relationship or heal from trauma, and can’t seem to get there.

Despite your best intentions and devoted commitment to doing the work, and doing it in so many different ways – peeling back the onion, walking the spiral – all of it.  The reality is, we must release the timeline of our healing in order for that healing to truly arrive.

When we allow ourselves to let go of the timeline, we’re reminded that there are sometimes many cogs that need to turn, that are not just our own, in order for the true healing to happen. 

Sometimes it can be connected to many other people within your system, whether it’s your family system, your relational framework, friendship, social circle, or ancestral line. 

And while we can be devoted to doing our own work, there can also be many threads, both seen and unseen, that are interweaving to conspire towards that true state of healing.  

This is one of the great mysteries of life, particularly when it comes to ancestral patterns and breaking cycles within a family or within a system. (And by the way, our family of origin patterns are always played out in our romantic partnership frameworks until we Consciously heal). 

So, if you’re doing all the work, yet still feeling frustrated with not being able to move through your pain or suffering – remember to trust the timing.  It is all part of the sacred mystery.

 

A Divine order. A Divine timing. A Conscious collaboration.

 

Keep inviting yourself to soften into the mystery. Your path is unique.  You’re courageous for being willing to move through your pain and choose your liberation and ultimate enlightenment. 

So have faith, and trust that healing is happening every moment of every day. And, rest into the mystery of the timing.

Healing is happening and it will happen. 

I’m with you.

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How To Keep Your Heart Open

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One of the greatest challenges of life is to learn how to keep your heart open when you most want to close it.  To stay open through hurt and loss, disappointment, betrayal, and pain.  To allow what’s falling away to fall away.  And to let life crack you open again and again.

The truth is, being human is not always easy.  In fact, often, it feels incredibly hard. But a life well lived takes courage.  It is full of losses and tragedies, as well as triumphs and adventures.

Whatever challenges you may be facing at the moment, life is coaxing you to keep your heart open, no matter how much it hurts. 

To find a way to unfold through the extremes.

 

Perhaps you’re going through a difficult time right now.

Perhaps life is testing you more than you think you can bear.

Perhaps more than anything, you want to shut down and cut yourself off.

Your grief is real.

 

The healing is happening and it will take as long as it takes.

Be gentle and treat yourself with the tenderness of a precious child, because you are one.  Remember that you have all that you need to create the life you are destined to create. 

All you need to do now is to stay open and take the next step. And tomorrow, you will take another.

Trust that you already know what to do. The blueprint is encoded within you.

I believe throughout our lives and through all the extremes, these experiences will be continuous invitations to keep our hearts open.

This is the courageous path from which healing can finally emerge.

Are you struggling to keep your heart open?  Do you feel your soul yearning for a deeper relationship with you?  If you are in need of support and guidance, I am here for you. 

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Integrating the Shadow

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We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds – the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.
-Carolyn Myss

 

When our minds dominate so much of our lives, we tend to feel internally fragmented.

The nature of the mind is to seek understanding and safety.

Splitting life into good/ bad and right/ wrong is a very natural process because it helps us to survive. But splitting life into polarities also creates tremendous suffering within us. 

Why?

Because we grow up learning that some parts of us are “good” while other parts of us are “bad.” We then attach to the “good” parts of ourselves and repress or deny the “bad” parts of ourselves.

When we start to perceive ourselves in a fragmented way, we feel flawed, lacking, and incomplete. We start to feel insecure, anxious, lonely, depressed, and in some extreme cases suicidal.

Our true essence has been diluted. ⠀⠀

We greatly crave to love and embrace ourselves, but how can we fully accept who we are when we hate some parts of ourselves and love other parts?

When we integrate, we unite different parts of ourselves that may have been missing. 

It is in this process we can begin the journey toward true healing.

In order to repair, heal, and grow on a mental, emotional, and spiritual level, it’s important to visit the darker parts of ourselves, often called our Shadow.

The Shadow isn’t just the wounded part of us, but it is also the path towards a more authentic and fulfilling life, a path to becoming whole again.

It may feel frightening at first, but it’s the most important step if you want to experience deep, lasting healing.

But you don’t have to do it alone.

I can offer loving guidance as you peel back the layers to all parts of yourself so you may reconnect to the truth of who you are.

When the timing feels divine, please know that I am always here for you.

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Portal of Alchemy

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What a potent time to be alive! 

We are in the midst of several deep portals of transition and transformation. It feels like a deep descent, a painful awakening, a profound transformation, a challenging restructuring, or a symbolic death or tower moment. 

I encourage you to have faith. All is perfectly unfolding; there is a Divine design to propel you into greater alignment with your cosmic destiny and Divine blueprint in this life. 

Have patience. Brace yourself for the alchemy. Soften into the gratitude for the storm and reward that awaits.

Have you noticed the signs?

 We are in Eclipse season (sudden, often shocking losses and gains, meant to realign your path), in the doorway of Samhain (the thinning of the veil between this world and the next), and the Autumnal equinox (emergence into the darkness and shadow matter within). 

 Medicine lives here for your highest good, even if it doesn’t feel like it. More is being revealed for your benefit.

You are being called forward.

How are you greeting these intense aspects? Are you in flow with the rhythms of the portal? Are you consciously witnessing the opportunity, and releasing your grip on the past? Are you embracing the new future?

At this time, we are being called to become still and silent, to rest in order to allow space for our greater vision to emerge. From here, the conscious next right action can take root.

This is a moment to descend into the darkness of the night and face our own inner darkness, feel our feelings deeply, and a place where we can connect to the numinous, ethereal space- the unseen truth.

Are you feeling the call to be released from your inner shadow material? Are you longing to restore yourself after trauma, heartbreak or betrayal? Are you ready to embrace your awakening?

We all have dreams for our life and our future — desires within us that feel significant and essential for living a life of purpose and pleasure.

Many of us suffer in silence, fear slowly strangling our passions and desire to make changes in our personal and professional lives.

Dreams of living our ideal life, doing fulfilling work, experiencing true intimacy in partnership, and achieving prosperity and abundance in our life become muted — but, in our heart, we know these dreams can be realized, yet we struggle to figure out how, and where to begin…

When we are feeling dispassionate, disconnected, foggy, or unmotivated this signals a loss of personal power.

Allow me to remind you to listen to the whispers of your heart. Do you need a container to be witnessed and truly held?

In using a combination of psychology, neuroscience and quantum shamanic journeying, you can regain your personal power. 

This integral approach will help you tap into the power and intelligence of your own True Nature, and with my guidance, I will show you how to wield this personal power to magnetize aligned desires and needs into your life and the lives of others. 

You’ll feel as though you’ve returned to your authentic self, with the promise you were born to realize.

When you are cut off from the truth of your essence, you don’t just fail to fulfill your potential, you experience many other side-effects. 

The challenges you may be facing in the other areas — health, work, relationships, prosperity — are often symptoms of a disconnection from this divine pattern in you.

An integrated, multidimensional approach is the greatest pathway to true transformation and healing.  Working with me as a guide, you will experience an internal shift, releasing deep imprints from the past. Then, your external world will begin to re-organize around you, as your “new” vision comes into focus. 

In this sacred container, you will be guided to step beyond your mind and emotions.

Are you ready to go deep and discover your unique, soulful, intelligent, and meaningful place in the world?

If you have ever thought…

  • I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Past
  • I Keep Repeating the Same Patterns
  • I Just Don’t Feel Whole
  • Why Am I Here? I Don’t Feel Like I Belong
  • There’s Got To Be More to Life…
  • I Long for Meaningful Relationships and Intimacy
  • I Can’t Remember Portions of My Childhood
  • I feel unfulfilled in every area of my life
  • My life is meant for more than this
My blended approach of traditional and holistic modalities may be what you need to reclaim your unique vision and recover your core strengths to put you on your path to personal empowerment.
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