When we know better, we do better. And as we grow more deeply in ourselves and more grounded in our truth, we find that some of the things, behaviors, people and tendencies that we used to accept, that we used to enjoy and that we used to readily embrace, some of the things we used to settle for… well we find that they no longer serve us. They no longer align with the person that we are growing into. And that’s okay. This is a natural part of the process of growth. Along with growth, comes a natural tendency to OUTGROW things, people and places.

Change is NEARLY ALWAYS accompanied with some level of discomfort, some level of resistance. And this resistance, this discomfort IT’S A NORMAL PART of the process of change. Your body is constantly trying to level out, to maintain its own sense of homeostasis, and so sometimes when we do things differently, when we branch out and away from our normal patterns, it sends kind of like a shock, a false alarm through your nervous system. And that’s where this feeling of resistance come from. Shifting into something new, can sometimes feel like a threat to your nervous system, but in reality the only threat occurring is you challenging that baseline.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank you for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. I have specifically designed this meditation to really help us to INTEGRATE some of the material from last week’s podcast episode "Challenging our Limiting Beliefs as we Challenge our Negative Self-Talk".

I designed this episode to support us in RELEASING any of our unhelpful or unsupportive self-talk tenencies. It is my hope that this mediation practice supports you in your healing journey with shadow work. Join me as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to ourselves through this guided meditation practice.

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Illuminating the Shadow EP. 26: Challenging our Limiting Beliefs as we Challenge our Self-talk

What if I told you our self-talk tells us the stories and narratives behind our beliefs, our behaviors and our actions. What if I told you that that inner dialogue has BOTH the capacity to propel you forward, to encourage you, to motivate you, and to comfort you in times of pain, BUT that inner dialogue of ours, it also has the capacity to hold us back, to keep us stuck frozen in fear, it has the capacity to keep us stuck in the repetitive patterns and cycles we find ourselves in?

Do you ever question that inner dialogue, challenge it maybe even, when you notice that its unhelpful or harmful? Did you know that you can actually TRAIN that inner dialogue, that self-talk to better serve you and your needs. You can actually TRAIN that inner dialogue, that self-talk to support you through times of transition, times of stress?

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Illuminating the Shadow MEDITATION EP. 25: Transitioning through Nature's Seasons: A Guided Visualization

Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank you for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. I have specifically designed this meditation to really help us INTEGRATE some of the material from last week’s podcast episode.

It is my hope that this mediation practice helps to instill a sense of safety during times of chaos and upheaval. It's my hope that this guided visualization helps you to develop a sense of trust in yourself through life's natural changing seasons and especially during those times of transition. Join me as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to ourselves through this guided VISUALIZATION meditation JOURNEY.

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Illuminating the Shadow EP. 24: Learning to Lean into the Discomfort of Change

How do you approach change or those more transitional periods of time in your life? How do you comfort yourself during these times of change? How do you cope with periods of transition? How can we find a sense of groundedness within ourselves, in the midst of the chaos and the upheaval?

In today’s episode, we will be really exploring our relationship with change, and how we tend to approach and navigate through those more challenging periods of upheaval and transition. In this episode of Illuminating the shadow, I want to encourage you to reflect upon some of the ways that you tend to approach times of change. I want to encourage you to try to approach change as necessary and important PART of the process, rather than looking at it as an obstacle or hurdle that you have to overcome. Change is the one really CONSTANT thing in life.

In this episode we'll be discussing how we can better support ourselves through the uncertainty and the discomfort of change and how we can find a sense of safety, within ourselves, even as we are experiencing deep change. We will be discussing tools that we can utilize during those times of uncertainty, so that we can better support and empower ourselves during the process of change and through the discomfort of uncertainty.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank you for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. Through this Reiki-infused, guided meditation practice, I hope to really facilitate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-trust. Join me as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to both ourselves through this heart-felt guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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Illuminating the Shadow Ep. 22: Sometimes we just need to SLOW the F*** Down!!

What if we valued REST, just like we valued play or like we glorify the daily grind? What if we didn't have our sense of self-worth so wrapped up in our ability to perform and so wrapped up in our ability to handle shit? What if the measure of a good day wasn't how much you accomplished or wasn't how productive you were, but rather how you feel how you felt throughout the day?

We live in this society that GLORIFIES the HUSTLE and praises the GRIND and the all the perseverance and hard work, while condemning burnout and demonizing REST. In a society that demand results and that glorifies the grind, rest is a rebellious act. What if we REBELLIOSLY allowed ourselves the REST we need, as we need it? JOIN the REBELLION and TAKE a NAP!

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Do you ever feel like things are just out of your control? Or like the world feels bleak or hopeless? Does it ever feel like you’re on a sinking ship, and there are no remaining life vests on board? Or maybe you are f***ing pissed off at the state of the world? Is the current political climate and all this bull$#h!t legistlation negatively impacting your mental health and overall well-being? Have you noticed a drastic increase in your stress levels and in your inability to deal with life’s ordeals?

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow podcast, we be exploring coping skills and I will be giving you an applicable list of suggestions for different coping skills and strategies that you can try on your time. It’s my intention that this material serves you, that it supports you in your own journey of personal growth and self-awareness. And its my hope that the next time that you feel yourself slipping into those patterns of struggle, that you remember something from this episode that you can use to sooth yourself, to sooth your hurt and pain, in a way that is both constructive and supportive for you.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. Through this Reiki-infused, guided meditation practice, I hope to really facilitate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-worth through the use and integration of our own internal boundaries. Join me as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to both ourselves through this heart-felt guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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In this episode, I hope to facilitate a safe space for you all here to really explore and re-examine how some of your beliefs on your internally-driven boundaries as we shine a gentle light of awareness upon some of our beliefs on our own personal & intrinsic boundaries and how these beliefs & these tendencies we hold, how they exhibit through our lives. We are going to speak about how our beliefs are reflected back to us through these intrinsic boundaries and are echoed back to us through our self-talk, through our inner dialogues and how ultimately these internal boundaries they help us to define & develop our sense of our self.  

Our internal-most boundaries, at a most basic level, reflect our values, they reflect what we choose to PRIORITIZE and they reflect what we hold true. When we honor our own internal boundaries, our own intrinsic boundaries, we have the capacity to break our old patterns of self-neglect, self-abandonment, and we can transition out of our victim-based internal narratives and we can step into our own personal power we can then re-write some of these narratives, as we see that they are no longer serving us. And so we’re going to explore these themes a bit deeper today, because BOUNDARIES literally hold the KEYS to your LIBERATION. Your boundaries keep you SAFE and STRONG in your CONVICTIONS. Boundaries allow you to FREELY and CONFIDENTLY speak your truth and to help you meet your personal needs while upholding your personal values. Boundaries allow you to PRIORITIZE yourself & your needs FIRST. When we set personal boundaries WITH ourselves its an opportunity for us to RECOGNIZE and honor our own NEEDS, our own values and our own priorities.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. Through this Reiki-infused, guided meditation practice, I hope to really facilitate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-worth through the use and integration of our own internal boundaries. Join me as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to both ourselves through the awareness of our inherent needs and energetic boundaries, through this heart-felt guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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Illuminating the Shadow: Shining a light of awareness on the BOUNDARIES we MAINTAIN with Ourselves

So in the past several episodes of Illuminating the Shadow, we spoken pretty heavily about boundaries, AND we’re not done yet! But in those episodes, we spoke about the need for addressing boundaries in our social interactions, and in our relationship dynamics, we spoke about addressing boundaries with others. In today’s episode we will be building a bit upon some of that context, some of that foundation, and we will be discussing our own personal boundaries that we set with ourselves, as we shine a gentle light of awareness upon some of our experiences, tendencies and beliefs about the boundaries that we set and maintain with OURSELVES. These more intrinsically-motivated boundaries that we maintain with ourselves they reflect our own inherent NEEDS. These intrinsic or internally-driven boundaries are deeply rooted in our core beliefs & reflected in our core values. These internal boundaries reflect back to us in our self-talk, our internal narratives and they reflect back to us in our own perceptions of ourselves, in the ways that we view & understand ourselves. You know how people always say that change begins within? Well, they are right and this work in BOUNDARIES begins from within, as well.  True and effective boundaries, originate from our own inherent needs & internal boundaries, radiating outwardly to our external and shared experiences. And so chances are, that if you struggle asserting and maintaining clear boundaries with others, you more than likely struggle asserting and maintaining clear boundaries with yourself.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. This meditation practice builds upon the foundation we laying in the last several episodes (Episodes 13-15) of Illuminating the Shadow, in which we discussed BOUNDARIES. I wrote this mediation episode in an effort to cultivate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in shadow work through self-awareness & radical self-acceptance. It is my most heartfelt intention that this mediation supports you as we work to integrate some of this work on boundaries.

Join me as we act to RECLAIM the parts of ourselves that we've lost along the way, as we act to cultivate a deep and meaningful sense of groundedness in our sense of self through this heart-felt, Reiki-infused, guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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What if I told you that buried deep within the discomfort of your emotional triggers lie the very keys to your healing? What if I told you that buried deep under the discomfort of your most painful frustrations, your most painful resentments lie the very keys to your freedom? What if I told you that buried deep below the painful exterior of your most hurtful experiences and your most painful memories lie the very patterns and wounds that need your attention and healing?

And that when that feeling of emotional stirring goes off in your body, presenting as an emotional trigger, it is in internal alarm, and a call to action, and that emotional trigger is often leading you right to a BOUNDARY that was violated, challenged or that needs your attention and re-evaluation. Our unhealed wounds arise to the surface as emotional triggers, characterized by their sharp emotional response often reminiscent of a past trauma or repeating trauma or pattern or belief. These triggers serve as a prompt and a deep call to action. This is a call to acknowledge the wound, to examine and honor it and to offer that trauma wound the space it requires to heal.

It’s time to honor our boundaries as we HONOR ourselves and explore our emotional triggers, as the vital messengers they are. And yes, they are vital messengers, they point us to what needs our attention and response. So today, we are going to continue our discussion on boundaries, as we dive in deep just shine a gentle light of awareness upon some of our patterns, habits, and beliefs surrounding boundaries and how we can maintain and assert clear and  sustainable boundaries with others.

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BOUNDARIES do not BIND, they LIBERATE

So as you begin to reflect upon the relationships in your life… relationships with your family, relationships with your friends, your partner, co-workers… Do you feel HEARD? Do you feel VALUED? Do you feel safe? Do you feel like you can openly express your own needs? Do you feel safe expressing your boundaries?  When you think about boundaries within your relationships… What comes up for you? As you begin to reflect upon the boundaries you see as examples in your life, in your relationships, perhaps you begin to question whether or not these cycles and beliefs about boundaries that once held you, that once kept you comfortable and safe in what you knew at the time, if you are beginning to see that these behaviors and beliefs aren’t serving you any longer, and you’re ready to release yourself from their holds, well it may be time to start to begin to think about your own personal journey in boundaries. Boundaries are the common ground and the very foundation of where our personal values & beliefs, our sense of self and our emotions meet. And they are also sometimes where they clash.

What if I told you that people treat you EXACTLY how you allow them to treat you? What if I told you that we show people HOW to treat us and we show them the very BEHAVIORS that we find acceptable, and these behaviors and tendencies are directly reflected in the very BOUNDARIES (or lack of them) that we set forth?    

While boundaries may seem limiting or restrictive sometimes to others, when used appropriately they are QUITE the opposite and they are LIBERATING AF!! OUR BOUNDARIES KEEP US SAFE. But boundaries are much more than that, when we set boundaries, we then have the capacity to recognize and accept and to MEET our own needs. Boundaries are the courageous manner through which we act to nurture ourselves, through our confidence to SPEAK our TRUTH. When we set boundaries we have the courage to LOVE and honor ourselves and to meet our needs, and we can then act to reclaim our power and to re-write some of our outdated narratives, if we find that they are no longer serving us.

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow podcast, we will be shining a gentle light of awareness upon some our beliefs, tendencies and patterns when it comes to our relationships with others, as we continue our discussion on boundaries.

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BOUNDARIES do not BIND, they LIBERATE

What if I told you that people treat you EXACTLY how you allow them to treat you? What if I told you that we show people HOW to treat us and we show them the very BEHAVIORS that we find acceptable, and these behaviors and tendencies are directly reflected in the very BOUNDARIES (or lack of them) that we set forth?    

While boundaries may seem limiting or restrictive sometimes to others, when used appropriately they are QUITE the opposite and they are LIBERATING AF!! OUR BOUNDARIES KEEP US SAFE. But boundaries are much more than that, when we set boundaries, we then have the capacity to recognize and accept and to MEET our own needs. Boundaries are the courageous manner through which we act to nurture ourselves, through our confidence to SPEAK our TRUTH. When we set boundaries we have the courage to LOVE and honor ourselves and to meet our needs, and we can then act to reclaim our power and to re-write some of our outdated narratives, if we find that they are no longer serving us.

You know how I am always saying that there is power in your voice and there is medicine in your story and that you are active writing your own story through your own interpretations of your experience and your own narrative? Well that narrative, that story of your life, it is reflecting back to you in the very boundaries that you set with others.

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow podcast, we will be shining a gentle light of awareness upon some our beliefs, tendencies and patterns when it comes to our relationships with others, paying particular attention to our personal boundaries.

Join me as we will explore these themes an much more as we seek out to illuminate the shadow together.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. This meditation practice builds upon the foundation we laid in the previous episode (Cultivating Mutual Support & How we can Honor Ourselves WHILE Supporting Others). I wrote this mediation episode in an effort to cultivate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-worth, and to support us as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to both ourselves and to each other. Join me as we act to cultivate a deep and meaningful sense of MUTUAL SUPPORT and MUTUAL ACCEPTANCE through this heart-felt, Reiki-infused, guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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Illuminating the Shadow: Cultivating Mutual Support & How we can Honor Ourselves WHILE Supporting Others

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow, we will be exploring our own lens of perception and how it contributes to our understanding of the world around us. As we shine a gentle light of awareness upon some our beliefs, tendencies and patterns and how they reflect back to us in the boundaries we maintain with each other. We will be diving in deep to further explore and examine how some of our habits and patterns and beliefs are reflective in our exchanges with others. We will be discussing some practical ways to bring more clarity and more understanding into our interactions with others, into our dialogues, our miscommunications AND into our disputes with others, as we work to facilitate a shared space of mutual understanding. Working to foster and encourage clear and direct communication in our daily social interactions and in the relationships that we value, so that we can engage with others in a way that supports them while simultaneously offering us that same support, that mutual understanding.

Upon this common ground, is where we can meet each other with understanding and grace, despite our differences. We have such a beautiful capacity to support each other, while simultaneously advocating for ourselves and our own needs.

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Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this meditation episode of Illuminating the Shadow. In this meditation, I hope to really cultivate a safe and nurturing space that aims to support you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-worth, as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to both ourselves and to each other, through this heart-felt guided meditation practice. Enjoy!

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Illuminating the Shadow: Thank You for Being a Friend

In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow podcast, we will be shining a gentle light of awareness upon some our beliefs, tendencies and patterns when it comes to our relationships with others. We will be diving in deep to explore some of the ways that we try to support and care for those we love, and as we begin to reflect upon our relationships and how we show up in them, as we begin to reflect upon our past experiences and as we begin to ask the hard questions, we begin to invite more clear and direct communication into our relationships, and more mutual understanding. In cultivating this sense of clear communication and this sense of mutual understanding, we can then act to support and love our people, in a way that is truly considerate and supportive more contentiously.

Deep down, I believe that we want to help each other, we want to offer our support and we want to ease the pain or the tension that our loved one is experiencing. That’s our intention, to support, to help. But… just because that is our intention, it isn’t necessarily always the actual outcome. So how do we bridge this gap- this gap between TRYING to be supportive and help and ACTUALLY being support and helpful?

Join me as we will explore these themes an much more as we seek out to illuminate the shadow together.

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Illuminating the Shadow Meditation: Deeply Rooted in the Safety of the Sense of Yourself

Hey there, friends! Welcome and thank your for joining me in this bonus episode of Illuminating the Shadow. In this bonus mediation episode, I hope to really facilitate a safe and nurturing space that supports you in your own personal journeys in self-awareness, radical self-acceptance and self-worth, as we work to cultivate a deeper sense of connection to ourselves, through this guided meditation practice. May we all grow deeply rooted in the safety of the sense of ourselves, and more deeply grounded in belonging. Enjoy!

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In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow, we will be shining a gentle light of awareness into some of those dark and shadowy corners of our own personal experience, as we dive in deep to explore how some our own habits and beliefs around self-worth are demonstrated in some of these behavior patterns and tendencies we hold.

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In this episode of Illuminating the Shadow, we’ll be building upon the basis that we explored in Episode 3, and we will be discussing a bit more in depth: what a sankalpa is, the different ways we can use a sankalpa: distinguishing between both traditional & non-traditional means of usage, and I’ll be guiding you through an exercise that will set a working foundation for you to discover your own sankalpa; and I’ll even be offering you up a few temporary options for “working sankalpas” to better support you in your own efforts towards cultivating your very own sankalpa, in your own time and as you’re ready. So it is my intention, that no matter where you are on your journey, that I can meet you there and offer you something of value, something of service from this experience.

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Important Timestamps

[00:00] - Welcome

[03:37] - Disclaimer

[06:44] - Let's do the hard things, I'll go first!

[12:18] - What's a Sankalpa?

[16:08] - Sankalpa #1

[30:33] - Sankalpa #2

[45:51] - Sankalpa #3

[51:23] - How my Sankalpa LED me here

[56:00] - Closing Thoughts

Welcome to Illuminating the Shadow. I’m Britt Hampton, your host and guide and in this episode I will be very much stepping into my own fear and discomfort as I face my own fears and dive deep into the very darkness, that I’ve been encouraging you to shine a gentle light of awareness upon. So in this episode, I’m going to speak quite a bit more candidly about my own personal experience. This is both scary and vulnerable or me. But I feel like since I am asking you all to be brave and vulnerable in doing this hard work, then I must be brave and vulnerable, myself in modeling it for you. So I’m going to be doing the scary, hard work right here in this episode, right alongside you. That discomfort I spoke about in Episode 2, those growing pains & discomfort that I encouraged you to try to re-frame, or to look at as “growing pains”, as a natural and innate part of the growth process.... Well in this episode, I will be very much stepping into that space of personal discomfort myself.

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I am going to “I’m going to eat healthier in 2022”. “I am going to love

myself more.”  “I’m going to meditate

more.” “I’m going to start working out.”…. 

Maybe you started off strong in the pursuit of a new goal or in the

pursuit of your new year resolution. And then inexplicably life happens! Our

attention is drawn elsewhere and we lose our momentum” or we “procrastinate to

the point of achieving minimal results, then we fall into our old patterns of

self-pity or disappointment” or “we believe that in some way we dropped the

ball, missed the mark, or otherwise fallen short of some self-perceived

milestone we had in our heads” and so we tell ourselves “there’s always next

year” or that we can try again later. And maybe you fall somewhere in between…

Since we find ourselves at the beginning of this new year,

at the beginning of a new cycle, AND at the beginning of our journey together,

I think it’s really important, to lay a solid foundation for our time together.

Welcome back to Illuminating the Shadow with your host and guide Britt Hampton.

So in this upcoming episode of Illuminating the Shadow, we will be discussing… some

habits and tools to support us in facilitating the change that we desire in our

lives.; I’ll also be speaking a bit about the inevitatable obstacles and

challenges that come up naturally through the process of change presenting as

resistance or growing pains and how we identify that resistance, contientiously

re-frame it and gently work our ways through it. In this episode, I will also

be giving you a number of tools and techniques that you can utilize (in your

own time) to help you facilitate a strong basis so that you can EFFECTIVELY

MEET your goals with INTENTION.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your

story.

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True beauty and magic does exist! However, it is often found in the darkest, and most seemingly unexpected of places. To understand this completely, I had to journey into my own personal underworld and experience the true dark nights of the soul. I sat in the discomfort and the helplessness of depression and grief, before undergoing a baptism of fire and I eventually came out on the other side. Illuminating the Shadow seeks out to explore just how to uncover the buried treasures in your own life and story, by helping you to shine a light of awareness into those dark and unseen corners.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your story.

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True beauty and magic does exist! However, it is often found

in the darkest, and most seemingly unexpected of places. To understand this

completely, I had to journey into my own personal underworld and experience the

true dark nights of the soul. I sat in the discomfort and the helplessness of

depression and grief, before undergoing a baptism of fire and I eventually came

out on the other side. Illuminating the Shadow seeks out to explore just how to

uncover the buried treasures in your own life and story, by helping you to

shine a light of awareness into those dark and unseen corners.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your

story.

Instagram: @illuminating_the_shadow

Email: support@illuminating-the-shadow.com

As we illuminate the shadows together, I invite you to explore the stories and narratives we tell ourselves, to gently re-examine the beliefs that we hold tightly to, to explore the patterns and the roots of these patterns we continue to repeat. May we learn to lovingly and wholeheartedly embrace ALL of ourselves as we nurture our inner child, address our deep wounds and traumas and act to cultivate and draw forth the wounded healer in all of us.  

As we illuminate our shadows, we can then draw out the medicine in ourselves and from our experiences and use that sacred medicine as an ointment to heal each other and this world. It is my most heartfelt intention, to aid you in this journey of self-rediscovery and radical self-acceptance, by offering you what I have learned in my own experiences in navigating through these dark and shadowy places.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your story.

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***FULL EPISODES COMING SOON*** Stay tuned, magic is afoot!

True beauty and magic does exist! However, it is often found in the darkest, and most seemingly unexpected of places. Illuminating the Shadow seeks out to explore just how to uncover the buried treasures in your own life and story, by helping you to shine a light of awareness into those dark and unseen corners.

There is power in your voice and there is medicine in your story.

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