Shadow

shadow alchemist colleen helps spiritual leaders who are done hiding and ready to remember who the fuck they really are she activates leaders into multi six and seven figure years through shadow integration entity expansion, and embodied leadership.

If you've been feeling like you're playing small, dimming your light, or holding back parts of yourself to feel safe, this episode is for you.

We're diving into shadow work, leadership, money, identity, and what it truly means to stop hiding and lead unapologetically.

So, hi Colleen, thanks for being here.

I'm so excited to be here, Kathy.

And I started to realize that my MO and a lot of my gifts were wrapped around being able to help people clear the energetics in their pathways.

And so I just started to own that.

And I don't just do shadow work.

And what I was saying earlier that I think I got sidetracked from is that I felt so much better after coming onto this show and just kind of spilling the beans on a lot of the shit I wasn't proud of.

And are you familiar with the Shadow Self? It's a concept by Carl Jung.

Yes, I'm familiar with that.

Yeah, so the point of that is that they say if the shadow self is compressed too far, then you end up letting it control you.

And so I believe that letting that surface, like, this is going to be embarrassing to say, but fuck it.

The only thing I've been able to even think about jerking off to is that goofy bitch that catfished me now.

They realize it's like not attached to reality at all.

And a lot of times they kind of will come to, but at the same time, people have started to have their identity so attached to this shadow self that they've created on the internet that they just become their shadow.

Carl Jung talked about shadow integration, which is essentially like you have these parts of yourself that you don't show people.

Right.

out there, the important thing is to see what works for you and to find someone who you can connect with and you can have a good solid relationship with to guide you through.

There's a lot of talk about doing shadow work and stuff out there.

Do you think that that's just a secondary way of loose harvesting?

We live in a matrix.

So there's fake everything, there's fake spirituality, fake healing, fake everything.

So you have to be very, very discerning.

But I think the word shadow work, as I understand it, comes from the shadow in us are all the things that we don't own about ourselves.

So, you know, if I don't own something about myself, it's a normal human tendency to then see it in another person it's called projection and then you hate the other person for those qualities that you yourself can't own that you have so there is a value in doing you know depends what you want to call it i call it trauma work because we're all traumatized if we're born on this planet to one degree it's just a continuum of trauma um So I think psychologically, that's what shadow work means.

Yeah.

So is that like ma- So if we were to look in the realm of, like, witchcraft and magic, you know, we talk a lot about shadow work, sort of ritual healing or ancestral sort of veneration.

Is that, is that how we can begin to sort of investigate, like, those deeper sides of ourselves that we need to really kind of work on that, that trauma that's there?

100% shadow work is the key, right?

Okay.

Um, I don't tend to work with rituals, uh, very much because I feel like they're very repetitive in, in, in following certain paths, you know? Um, and, uh, witchcraft is, uh, a very interesting art form that is very connected to the Earth.

It's very connected to Earth and, and, and the elements and, you know, all of these natural systems.

Um, when we talk about shadow work, we're really talking about the psychological.

Right, and so sometimes nothing necessarily changes when the light came on.

It's just that we can see what's already been there, and that comes in with the shadow work that you do.

And people often talk about shadow work when they talk about spiritual awakening and going through a spiritual growth process.

But not everyone really understands the context of it or what it means.

So- Um, even in psychology, Carl Jung and the, there's a psychological concept that he brought up as well about the shadow, the shadow within us, and it's often misunderstood again as being evil or being bad or having the parts of us that are undesirable, right, within us.

Again, I'm not enough, right? So finding out what it's actually, where- which behavior or which thing you did to keep yourself safe and how that relates to what you're doing now is a really big step to be able to creating that because i- and even though you've got awareness with that, it doesn't automatically change the patterns that you have but it does give you the opportunity to work on it because you don't know what you don't know.

Right? And so if this stuff is sitting in there and we're not bringing the light to it and we're not illuminating it, then it's just going to continue sitting there and spitting out the program from within the software that's gonna have you thinking and feeling and behaving in ways that aren't lining up for your best interest or wellbeing.

And I, I mentioned before about the triggers, right? Looking at that's when we actually really get to go deep into this space of self-exploration and that's the important time to do the shadow work when- Mainly emotional triggers.

You're living with a more of a purpose.

Um, but then also too is that's the shadow work because something may annoy you on a regular basis.

You gotta ask yourself why, right? [laughs] Right? Because-

Oh, yes