Shadow Journaling is your path to discovering, accepting, and appreciating who you truly are.

You've been told to wear masks, to hide what's been labeled as "ugly" or "wrong".

But often, what was deemed ugly was just your uniqueness: the authentic parts of yourself that didn't conform.

These hidden parts, your secret sauce, live in your Shadow.

Through Shadow Journaling, using the three-phase Shadow Journaling Method (Reveal. Reclaim. Rewrite.) we reconnect you with the self you've lost.

I'll be honest: the journey isn't always painless. But the alternative is hiding your authentic self, and wasting precious time and energy.

Facing your Shadow is about observing and acknowledging everything inside (warts and all) and accepting it as part of you.

Repressed parts don't disappear by ignoring them; they lose their power only when we look at them honestly and say, "I see you, but you are not all of me."

Think of yourself like a recipe: you're not defined by one ingredient alone, and at the same time, you wouldn't be complete without it.

Our task is to recognise all the ingredients that make us whole.


Reveal.
To reveal what’s in the Shadow, we need to be willing to look. Really look.

It means having curiosity, honesty and kindness in a process where you accept that not everything you believed about yourself is true, or even helpful.

Reclaim.
We take what is there and we acknowledge it, see it, accept it.

We do not have to embrace it or love it. But we do have to say “this is here.”
And just because it’s inside you doesn’t mean you will act on it.

Rewrite.
This is where we release the energy lost to repression, to hiding ourselves, and we can see a better path forward.

The ego that before was resisting the process, has now been won over, and now it sees a more helpful and positive way forwards.

The internal resistance is reduced, and we can start to create our new reality.

This is not to say this is a one-time process.

As we learn more about ourselves, as we become more and more self-aware, we see ourselves in new ways.

Others see us in new ways, and we will be in situations that may surprise us.

But the good thing is, now we are skilled with tools to help investigate, to explore, and to help us find a way out of the newfound darkness.

What before might have been overwhelming and lead to depression or anxiety, now has become an opportunity for growth, for learning and for integration.