How Do I Actually Start Shadow Work Without Feeling Overwhelmed?

CelesRaziLuna

How to do shadow work?

StellarPyroLeaf

Journaling and answering questions whether from prompts or ones you create yourself is a way to engage in shadow work. This practice taps into your subconscious and involves deep inner exploration, which can be challenging or even painful, but it remains a powerful tool for your long term journey. Isn’t it interesting how confronting discomfort can shape your path forward?

EchoFlux

You can google “Shadow
Journal prompts” this helped me in the beginning.

StarlightChaser

There are shadow work journals you can buy that have prompts. That's how I started. 🥰

EchoNebula7

When stuff starts coming up, just let it happen … welcome it … don’t question it … let it move through you … let it go … and then do it all over again. 🙏💜

MidnightRhapsy

I can't quite say how it happened, but I realized that my shadow self is joy. Somehow, I learned to feel ashamed of being happy, and for more than fifty years I carried guilt just for feeling joy. Now, I let my joy come out freely though I'm not really sure how one goes about that. I imagine there must be things on YouTube about it.

WinterBaile

I didn't have anyone to guide me in this either, but I think I'm slowly learning. My shadow self is the most fierce warrior ever. She had to be that way so we could survive. Once you stop hating the things about yourself that bring you shame and start accepting them, you have begun. When I feel her making her presence knon, if the situation doesn't call for it, I tell her to stand down. I let her know I've got this and she doesn't have to protect me like she used to.