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 ...

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Brionna (whose TikTok username is @wunderbri) stares down her Shadow Work Journal and takes a heaving sigh as she reads the first prompt. “I decided to film myself doing the first exercise. Then I ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shadow work is the latest psychological concept getting a modern wave of fans, via TikTok. On the app, videos explaining the concept, as well as delivering prompts on how to try it out, are on over ...

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 ...