Podcast: Shadow Work for Beginners: Meeting the Parts You Hide

Shadow Work for Beginners: Meeting the Parts You Hide

Welcome back to The Coven Keeper's Hour. I'm Rowan, and tonight I want to talk about the parts of yourself you've been taught to hide.

You've probably been told your whole life to be *good* — to smile, to manage, to optimize yourself into something palatable. But what about the parts of you that don't fit that story? Your rage. Your hunger. Your doubt.

Shadow work isn't about becoming darker. It's about becoming whole.

Stay with me. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to start befriending the parts of yourself you've been at war with. And why that changes everything about your craft.

Here's what I've noticed in fifteen years of practice.

Every witch who pretends she has no anger, no jealousy, no hunger — that's where her real power leaks away.

Shadow work is the psychological practice of befriending your disowned parts. It comes from Carl Jung's work in the early 1900s, but it's found its way into modern witchcraft because frankly, we needed it. The cunning folk and village wise women didn't pretend to be purely light. They worked with the full spectrum of human experience.

Key Takeaways

• I'm Rowan, and tonight I want to talk about the parts of yourself you've been taught to hide.
• You've probably been told your whole life to be *good* — to smile, to manage, to optimize yourself into something palata
• Shadow work isn't about becoming darker. It's about becoming whole.
• Stay with me. By the end of this episode, you'll know exactly how to start befriending the parts of yourself you've been
• Here's what I've noticed in fifteen years of practice.