Marking Jung’s 150th birthday with a journey into the home of his work in Zurich, Switzerland. There’s something that happens to the senses in Zürich. Everything widens. The air feels pure, honest, like breathing straight from the heavens. Even when you're close to something, it somehow stretches into a vastness that asks you to take a step back and see the whole picture. Like a living painting, dimensional and deep. It feels fitting to write this now, just after what would h

Why Shadow Work Is a Social Responsibility (especially today) Every day, we walk with a part of ourselves we can’t quite see. It shapes our reactions, feeds our patterns, sabotages our goals, and colors our relationships. It appears in the partner we choose again and again. In the story we tell ourselves when we fail. In the judgment we place on a stranger we barely know. That part is the shadow. Or, more specifically, the darker mirror of ourselves. In this live conversation

Dr. Connie's recent interview Explore Shadow Work in many contexts: relationship, politics, spirituality. In this interview, you will hear a wide range of applications, including how shadow projection has been weaponized today and how to stop contributing to the darkness.

Creativity in Shadow Work with Dr. Connie Zweig and Keila Shaheen There is a quiet moment that every one knows. And it arrives before the words hit the page, before the brush touches the canvas, before the melody finds its sound. It's the moment of stillness that can feel like nothingness, and yet, beneath it, something is being cultivated. In my recent conversation with Dr. Connie Zweig I explored this space. It’s the space where creativity and shadow work meet and how much

The answers cracked something open and revealed the sacred ache we all carry. What do you yearn for? Not what you want. Not what you say you’re working toward.But what aches beneath your chest when it’s quiet enough to hear it? Within each of us is a sacred yearning- a pull not toward achievement, but toward home. A longing for something we can’t fully name: belonging, union, peace, God, love, wholeness. This longing isn’t weakness. It’s the soul’s compass. It is what sets us

Is your shadow sabotaging your creativity? Do you get stuck starting out? Trusting your intuition? Completing a creative project? Bringing it to the world? You can detect a shadow character at each stage of the creative process and break through to open the portal to the creative unconscious. 🖤 Thanks for reading Shadow Work to Expand Awareness : a space where inner work meets the outer world through shared prompts, writings, and livestream conversations with Dr. Connie Zwei

The strange dissonance of living in this world as an INFJ I’m an INFJ (Or, the strange ache of feeling everything all at once.) There’s something quietly tragic about being the “rarest” personality type. Not because you feel special but because you often wish you didn’t. I’ve known I was an INFJ since I was a teenager, back when online quizzes felt like horoscopes with better vocabulary. “Introverted, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging”. Those four words that at first felt like a di

A Case for Conscious Consumption and the Birth of Self-Media What if the most valuable thing you ever gave away was your attention–and you did it willingly, day after day? We don’t often ask where our minds go when we scroll. We ask what we’re watching, who we’re following, what’s trending…but not: Who is watching the scroll? Or: Where did my awareness just drift to? And: Am I really in control here? The answers to those questions may hold the key to understanding what it

Connie's Newest Insights about Shadow-Work Although we want to disown our troublesome parts of ourselves, they frequently express something important. The rage we push away, for example, may simply want respect or safety. The addictive impulse might actually be a quest for deeper meaning. The shadow’s seemingly negative behavior encodes a message: an unmet need, a forgotten spark of creativity, or a repressed longing for closeness. In shadow work, we learn to decode these mes

How to learn dating as shadow-work Let’s redefine dating as the shadow’s search for shelter in another, rather than the ego’s search for the perfect mate. Let’s focus on our inner work, rather than on others. The divine madness of finding an erotic partner is choreographed by the shadow in its quest to recreate familiar but unconscious feelings that were embedded in childhood as “love.” And so abused children find abusive adult partners; children of alcoholics find adult part

Understanding the Collective Shadow and Its Role in Social Unrest Shadow Work as a Social Responsibility to Humanity In the realm of personal growth, shadow work is often seen as an inward journey—an exploration of the unconscious parts of ourselves that we disown or deny. But shadow work is not just an individual practice. It extends outward into society, shaping politics, culture, and history in ways we often fail to recognize. The collective shadow—our shared, repressed fe

For a New Era of Self-Discovery There are conversations that open doors. Ones that leave you feeling like you've just stepped into a deeper understanding of yourself, the world, and the hidden dynamics that shape both. My recent conversation with Dr. Connie Zweig was exactly that. Dr. Zweig, a pioneer in shadow work and spiritual psychology, invited me to speak about The Book of Shadow Work , diving into the ways our unconscious patterns play out in relationships, our search

Meet THE BOOK OF SHADOW WORK, and Dr. Connie's revised edition of MEETING THE SHADOW Dear Friends, Today, I am thrilled to share two transformative projects that have been years in the making—one from my heart and one from a mentor and dear friend who has profoundly shaped my journey. My first narrative nonfiction, THE BOOK OF SHADOW WORK , is officially out today! This book has been a labor of love, inspired by the countless voices and stories of those who embraced The Shado

Navigating Shadow Work in Families “The family holds mythic power – the source of all good, the defense against evil. It’s exalted as a sacred ideal, which promises roots, blood relations, future generations. It ties each individual life to its fate, imprinting it genetically, biochemically, and psychologically with blessings and curses. To imagine life without family is to imagine life in free fall, without a container, without a ground on which to stand.” -Connie Zweig, Rom

A Reflection on Shadow Work in Relationships Following our series on myths about the shadow, we're going to take a deep dive into the many contexts in which the shadow erupts: relationships, work, creativity, social media, politics, religion/spirituality, and aging through the lifespan. These are the realms of life where the unconscious—the shadow—whispers its truths, often disrupting our carefully constructed narratives. When we choose to pay attention, we discover that thes