Shadow work is a type of psychotherapy that focuses on the parts of the psyche that people often keep hidden, such as trauma and resentment. Some people may refer to this as the “shadow self”. The ...

Do you ever get the sense that you have a dark side? Are there parts of you you’d rather keep hidden? These are common feelings, and it turns out that they may hold some truth. Some experts even ...

Shadow work can promote self-awareness by helping you get in touch with suppressed emotions. Exploring and acknowledging "shadow" traits that prompt discomfort can lead to self-acceptance. Explore ...

These past few years have felt like an unrelenting confrontation with the darkest facets of human nature. Multiple quarantines and the inescapable news cycle have left us with precious little respite ...

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 ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. To understand what shadow work is, we must first define the “shadow.” The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who is perhaps Sigmund Freud’s most famous ...