WORKING WITH THE SHADOW AND THE GOLDEN SHADOW:

Within this consensual reality we are saying YES.

But which parts of me are saying yes, to what?

How could we be saying “yes” to all the pain and suffering we are experiencing?

Whats the real point of my grief? Where is it taking me?


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Shadow work is about working on gaze between our perceptions of self and other, and this I prefer to constellate within more regular talk-session work but pops up in all sessions.

Shadow is everywhere there is light and dark.

Shadow work unfolds within relationship and longer-term self reflection, and the strongest healing in terms of shadow work comes from witnessing oneself through the mirrors of these relationships.



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ABOUT SHADOWS

WHEN DO WE MEET THE DARK SHADOW ?


“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
- C.G.JUNG


Meeting the dark shadow is like meeting the growth edge of our unconsciousness, but “twisted”. We read it upside down, and inside out. It is a portal.

The Dark Shadow makes themselves known through dramatic painful events we have in our waking life, or nightmarish dreaming lives. The Shadow is not “evil”, it is part of us or a function of our gaze and relationship. Usually is here simply to rearrange our psyche in order to create the new growth. The Dark Shadow exposes our “blindspots”.

Seeing our shadow is a good thing because it is able to be integrated.

The more blindspots we have, the more we are unaware of the energy/entities passing through us which are not as compassionate as they could be or are operating for thier own gain and not for the good or highest benefit for all involved. Usually there is an underlying beleif system of lack on that blindspot.

New growth comes from dissolving old systems which are in the blindspots and for some of us that will show up in our waking lives as a pathway of destruction.

Meeting the dark shadow is about meeting the darkness within that destruction path - relationships that struggle or hit a breaking point. The dark shadow integrated is about owning our own destructive power as part of our processes in wholeness.

It is a constant process and your dark shadow area of the psyche does not stay fixed but evolves as you do.


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WHAT IS THE GOLDEN SHADOW?


Not belonging to C.G.Jung, but evolving later, out of his work - the concept of the Golden Shadow operates on the same psychic function as the dark shadow - but focuses on including all the wonderful, full of life aspects of ourselves that have been locked away [behind trauma].

If we have not been able to be trully authentic or feel validated in emotional realities - The Golden Shadow grows, full of truth, vulnerability and vitality. We canot see our own goodness.

When we feel guilty or ashamed and are not aware of it, like with the Dark Shadow we are not able to consciously address this in our relationships.

Not being able to consciously address something means we are not able to ask for cleaning from spirit...

We can fall easily out of connection and into shadow contacts ie: attachments, competition, survival, lack matrix - based on old programming.

Especially for highly sensitive people or very empathic people (every human is empathic) - or anyone who has experienced trauma, especially from narcissistic/extractivist/unconsciously preoccupied or traumatic family structures, or punitive systems as a child [which, a lot of us have]our shadow can be actually our power-goodness - our strength.

Perhaps our inner authority and clarity of anger, and our intuition is hanging out there. Time to rescue that.


For Highly Sensitive People - this can happen in such subtle ways, if our emotional realities are not acknowledged as ‘true’ subjectively, we can get the idea that we are all wrong.

[We are not wrong, we perhaps are just picking up on nuances that others miss.
Often this means we can be unconsciously “gaslit” by others.]


This is relevant also for in particular for all people who are self-classifying female, BIPOC, and LGBTQI+. within the broader world-body and collective shadows.

This is relevant also for new masculinity in the age of post patriarchy.

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SHADOW AS PROCESS:

Both Dark Shadow and Golden Shadow are a process happening between Subjective and Objective Psyche.

Ie: We are witnessing always from a subjective psyche, so it is always at a level of being painfully tied to our perception of “who we are”.

It is a mind-bending topic sometimes to understand the personal and collective shadows which touch our lives.

That’s why it so important to give time to the process of reflection and discernment.

There is so much power to be found in the shadows for all of us, especially collectively right now.

Working with psyche in this way is an investment - for all aspects of our lives and an investment into the colletive on every level!

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WHICH SESSION ?

If you want to focus on Empowerment Shadow Work (Golden-Shadow Focused) this can be made through all sessions styles. You decide the working style and I make sure to focus on the context/how.

Please bring in your dreams to these sessions.


New client Witness Session 1,5 Hr / 80 Euro
Drop-in Witness Session 1 Hr / 60 Euro
Shamanic Ritual Session [receive] 2 Hr - 120
Shamanic/Akashic Shadow Constellation (Active) 3hrs+ - 180


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LENGTH OF CONTINUED SESSION WORK :

The length of continued session work is up to the analysand to decide as they go. Due to shadow work being all about how an analysand 'sees worlds' and how these worlds are in turn 'seeing the analysand’ it is not up to me to designate a set time period for you.

Regularity is very important for holding new psyche.

Life events will unfold and the souls path will show the way as the shadow speaks through internal mirrors of life events.

Talk Sessions hold space for continued analysis, hold projections within witness, helping each client to discern the origin of the psychic content and to eleviate some of the extra suffering around each polarity while we call in for greater power integration.

Alternatively, for diving straight into certain issues and asking directly for healing to Spirits - We work on shadow integration in the ritual Shamanic Sessions. We go in and "clear out" / "dust off" the shadow [dream fog and mirrors of the mind] with core-shamanic techniques.

For taking the journey yourself and facing content head first [navigating a dream] check out the Active Constellation Sessions.

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No matter which style you choose - techniques 100% specific for each human.

My main aim with this analysis work as regular talk sessions is that each individual learns to self regulate / self heal, making their own way through their shadow content.

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POSSIBLE SESSION PACKAGE:

Shadow and Golden Shadow - Trauma Sensitive Integration Work  / 101 Pack

4 Sessions [ 1 x 1,5 hr Talk, 1 x Constellation Excavation 3hr+, 1 x Witness talk drop-in, 1 x Ritual 2hr. ]

350 Euro [ 90 Euro discount ]

I’m offering this session pack because I would love it if we get deeper into shadow work as a trauma integration process with full body ritual and active journeys.

My suggestion is to book in the session with me once every two weeks to allow for digestion time with what comes up. 


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ON SOUL-LEVEL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE SUBCONSCIOUS :

“Whenever we speak of a "psychological relationship" we presuppose one that is conscious, for there is no such thing as a psychological relationship between two people who are in a state of unconsciousness. ...

.... The psychological relationship is limited in the degree to which that unconsciousness exists.

~CG Jung, Marriage as a Psychological Relationship, Anima and Animus. Para 325.


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ON LOVE RELATIONSHIP :

“Yet, after the inevitable projections unavoidably fall away, we are re-summoned in a relationship to the immensity of our own journey.

Romance may be replaced by something worth being called love, as a result of the humbling encounter with the challenges that our withdrawn projections bring home to us.

This is why love requires big persons, not kids. Kids fall in and out of love at the moment’s whim.

Big people can ride the shifting tides of life, range between intimacy and distance, defense and openness, and grow through their mutual toleration of ambivalence and ambiguity.

Love asks that we confer on the other the freedom to be who they most profoundly are, even as we wish the same for ourselves.”

~James Hollis, Excerpt From: Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life.

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