What is Shadow Work?
Shadow work is the Jungian practice of bringing unconscious, rejected, or undeveloped aspects of the self into conscious awareness. It is not about dwelling in darkness — it is about recovering wholeness.
Why the Shadow needs to be met
The Shadow forms because certain qualities do not fit the persona developed for our particular world. What is excluded does not dissolve — it waits. Over time, the unmet Shadow expresses itself through compulsive behaviour, through what we find intolerable in others, or through symptoms.