SHADOW
WORK
What is Shadow Work?
Jungian shadow work is the practice of facing the parts of yourself you’ve tried to forget. The anger that felt too intense. The needs that felt too demanding. The fears that felt too vulnerable. These are the parts that once made you feel unlovable or unworthy, so you buried them deep. But hiding them didn’t erase them. They linger beneath the surface, shaping how you respond to the world, how you see yourself, and how you connect with others.
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Carl Jung called this the shadow. It’s the side of you that holds everything you deny, reject, or suppress. It’s not wrong. It’s not broken. It’s just hidden, waiting to be acknowledged. From a young age, we learn what parts of ourselves are acceptable and which ones are not. We adapt to fit in, to feel safe, to be loved. We smile when we feel angry. We act strong when we feel scared. We shut down our real selves to avoid rejection. But those buried parts don’t disappear. They become the shadow. Over time, they find ways to speak. They show up in self-sabotage, in repeated patterns, in intense emotional reactions that seem to come out of nowhere.
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Shadow work is the act of turning toward those parts rather than running from them. It’s the decision to see yourself honestly, to hold space for the anger, the fear, the grief, and the neediness without judgment. It’s the process of asking what you’re hiding from yourself, what old wounds you’re still carrying, and why the same patterns keep repeating. This work isn’t about becoming a perfect version of yourself. It’s about becoming a whole version of yourself. The one who can hold the light and the dark without shame.
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Jungian shadow work is raw, revealing, and deeply healing. It isn’t easy, but it’s necessary. It’s the process of reclaiming the parts of yourself you lost along the way, integrating them into the person you are now. It’s about finding freedom in the places where you once felt trapped. Jung believed the shadow holds profound power – the power to transform pain into wisdom, rage into strength, and fear into truth. When you learn to face the shadow, you don’t just heal. You become whole.
Shadow work and Tarot Reading
Healing through shadow work using tarot is possible.
Remember: growth is not comfortable, nor easy.
Inner Shadow
The shadow self is the place where the things we’d rather forget get buried. The anger that simmers just beneath the surface. The fear that we can’t quite shake. The parts of us that feel too heavy to carry, so we lock them away. But they don’t disappear. They wait in the dark, influencing how we act, how we love, how we see ourselves. Shadow work through tarot is a way to sit with those hidden parts, not to banish them but to finally understand them. It’s the moment when the things we fear become the things we learn from – when what we’ve been avoiding becomes the place we find our strength.
Emotional Healing
Emotional healing is the work of tending to the wounds we can’t see: the disappointments that linger, the heartbreaks that refuse to fade, the grief that sits quietly in the background. It’s not about forgetting what happened but about making space for those feelings to be acknowledged and processed.
Tarot serves as a gentle guide, bringing clarity to what’s been buried and helping us understand the patterns that keep us stuck in old pain.
Emotional healing is the process of letting those feelings move through us rather than defining us. It’s a way to reclaim our heart piece by piece.
Inner Child
The inner child is the part of you that still remembers the innocence, the wonder, the pain. It’s the version of yourself that felt things deeply before life taught you to hide those feelings. The inner child carries the unmet needs, the unspoken fears, the desires that were pushed aside to survive. Tarot can help you reconnect with that part of yourself, the one that’s still waiting to be heard. It’s about listening to what your younger self needed but never received: love, safety, acceptance. Healing the inner child isn’t about changing the past. It’s about holding that child with compassion and giving them the voice they never had.
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