The aim of shadow work is to reclaim the gold that has been hidden away in our shadow, along with these unwanted behaviours. We believe in our journey of personal development, sometimes before we are ready for coaching we have old wounds that need healing and understanding. By bringing together this deep archetypal healing and both creative development and transformative coaching our clients are more able to create the lives they want.

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For example, if we’ve hidden away our ‘selfishness’ we may have lost touch with our ability to take good care of ourselves. If we have hidden away our ‘neediness’ we may have lost touch with our ability to connect with others and accept their support. If we have hidden away our anger we may have lost touch with our sense of power and agency in the world, and our ability to make a difference. 

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So shadow work supports clients in getting to know these lost parts of themselves and reclaiming and reintegrating the parts which are valuable to them. However, to bring such shadows out into the light usually comes with huge risks.

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These parts were put away because it wasn’t safe to show them – sometimes our very existence depended on us hiding them away. So potentially bringing such sides of ourselves out of shadow could be detrimental to our psychological well-being and lead to further pain, repression and denial.

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In our work we recognise that before aspects of the personality can safely be brought out of shadow, there is a need for the original wound which caused the loss of this aspect of ourselves to be explored and healed. For this reason we focus on Healing The Shadow, and working in the light with all parts of us.