What's Shadow Work Anyway?

This week’s Crystal Happy Hour is a topic that lives close to my heart - Shadow Work. There are tons of different ways to approach and understand this topic, but the simplest way that I resonated with them is - any work with emotions, experiences or triggers that you would prefer to stay hidden away. It tends to connect with feelings of anger, shame, grief, regret, or any other upset that you may have grown up hiding away. Whether it did not feel safe to express them or you simply were never taught how to move through them - this week’s Crystal Happy Hour is for you. I feel as though Shadow Work has been the foundation of much of my personal growth since opening Sienna Moon. Diving headfirst into a dream will activate all kinds of shadows I did not even know were waiting for me. When I first began moving through them, the heaviness and associations I had grown to have with these feelings were very challenging to move through. In the past year or so, I shifted the lens from which I viewed this work - wanting to use my personal shadow journey as a vehicle towards knowing myself more honestly, seeing these emotions as tools of empowerment and ultimately listening to them as road signs pointing me towards my next right step. 

The state of the world alone has inspired this perspective shift, with so much heaviness and dissonance filling our spaces - digital and in person - evolution felt inevitable. The idea of having everything planned out of knowing exactly how my path would grow just felt unattainable and no longer like the point. Instead I began to feel into the idea of the next right step. When a trigger would pop up or a big emotion would crash over me - I did my best not to give it a whole bunch of power - but instead feel it, listen to it and learn. This was never simple, rarely did it feel good in the beginning, but over time my reactions and perspectives began to morph. Pushing down the feeling or sitting in the heaviness was no longer my automatic experience. I now get to choose to grow and expand from listening to the divine wisdom our shadow selves carry. 

So whether you are new to shadow work or have been immersing yourself in this topic, I welcome you to join me this Friday. We will gather in community, learn more about our shadows, how to listen to them and how to channel this growth into a beautifully authentic healing experience. We will work with some crystals to support this and also move through a guided meditation/shadow sound healing.