I Tried This Trendy Journaling Practice for 28 Days To Uncover My Deepest Self — Here’s What Happened
My experience with Shadow Work journaling, including 27 excellent prompts and the best practices I learned
It all felt very hocus pocus.
When I first came across a video on “Shadow Work”, I was 99.99% sure it was all an absurd practice and just another way for some random influencer to charge you with their course or journal.
But then I found articles on reputable websites explaining the practice and offering tips on how to do it.
To say I was confused would be an understatement.
Intrigued, I researched, and it turns out Shadow Work is actually a form of psychotherapy that involves exploring our repressed emotions, fears, and desires to uncover our deepest selves and achieve personal growth.
According to Jungian psychology, we all have a persona — the personality we show to the public — and a shadow self. The latter is private as it often includes traits we don’t like to show or that we aren’t even aware that we have.
The goal of Shadow Work is to shed light on our shadow selves by bringing awareness to our triggers and fears so that we can better know…
