Earlier this year, a spiritual coach and reiki healer who goes by the name Zen Oasis posted a video to TikTok explaining the idea of “the shadow self” to her 167,000 followers. Sitting lotus-style in ...

Many of us have experienced the unsettling circumstance of living in the shadow of someone else for various reasons. Sometimes it is a relative or acquaintance whose work or achievements shine ...

You may have heard the term "shadow self" before. The idea of a shadow self has long roots in our history. As a child, I found some fascination with a fictional work by Robert Louis Stevenson entitled ...

What Is Shadow Work? Embracing the Hidden Parts of Ourselves Source: Image by Author Shadow work is a psychological and introspective practice aimed at uncovering the hidden, often repressed parts of ...

The latest mental health trend on TikTok is a curious one. “Shadow work” is rooted in ideas developed by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, repackaged into a viral book written by a self-help author and ...

The process of learning to be a better person or be a happier version of yourself often involves introspection. Like with shadow work, which is a type of psychotherapy that has you look inward. At its ...

Shadow work is the process of exploring the unconscious reasons behind your feelings or behaviors, particularly uncomfortable emotions that seem out of character or beyond your control. For example, ...

TikTok is making us reflect on our mental health again with its new trend, ‘Shadow work,’ as the hashtag has already amassed over 2.3B views. Still, we’re wondering why, as the psychology-based ...

At a time when conversations around self-discovery are surging, the analyst's theories on the collective unconscious, archetypes and shadow are increasingly influencing the work of social media-savvy ...