Episode 256: Shadow Work | A Conversation with Jana Spangler
Shadow Work is a phrase that gets a lot of airplay, but it can be hard to get your head around exactly what it means or how it can apply in your life. The “shadow” consists of unconscious, repressed, or hidden parts of our personality. So what might it mean to uncover, understand, and integrate our shadow self? How might this work affect our responses and relationships? “The human soul wants belonging, but the ego really doesn’t know how to give it to us. It just...helps us fit in. It helps us show up and be acceptable—and it thinks that hiding the shadow is the thing that’s going to do it,” explains Jana Spangler. In Episode 256, Susan and Cynthia are joined by Jana for a conversation about the potential benefits of bringing the shadow to light through this specific inner work.
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Hear more from Jana on these ALSSI episodes:
Ep. 69: But She’s Got a Great Personality!
Ep. 135: What About Religious Trauma
Ep. 184: Am I Allowed to Change?
Find Jana on Instagram here and on Facebook here and professionally here
Shadow Work: An Idiot’s Guide, Rainn Wilson with Keila Shaheen, Soul Boom podcast Ep. 36
Find Byron Katie’s work here
Meeting the Shadow on the Spiritual Path: The Dance of Darkness and Light in Our Search for Awakening, by Connie Zweig
Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature, by Connie Zweig