Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path

Send us Fan Mail Fear of success is often disguised as procrastination, excuses, "rational" thinking, and dragging our feet. It's so much easier to talk ourselves out of living a life we love and going after our dreams than it is to take the necessary steps to making it happen. Even if we KNOW it will completely revolutionize and change our lives. Fear of jealous people and judgemen...

Send us Fan Mail Judgment is hard to avoid and is in fact one of our oldest mental patterns. Our minds want to look at this as black and white, good and bad, yes and no, but it's not that simple. We are complex and so is our pain. In this episode, we dive deeply into the shadow of judgment and where it comes from. We reflect on our own pain, the mirror of judging others and situations, and ar...

Send us Fan Mail Money can be one of the most shadowy things we all experience. It has the ability to destroy, inspire, create, oppress, and manipulate. Part of the money shadow is the struggle with our relationship to money. I touch on these elements and more in this week's episode. I speak about my shadowy money journey and the familial ties to money wounds. This episode features some of th...

Send us Fan Mail Negative self-talk is something that permeates many of us and can be pesky to deal with. In this episode I speak to my troubles with self-talk, worthiness, body dysmorphia and body image, as well as what I've done to mitigate the harmful effects. Negative self-talk can be a symptom of trauma, though not one that is unable to shift. I dive deeply into what has worked for me, t...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is both deep and zany. Tons of story-telling, metaphors, laughs, truths, and deep vulnerability. We discuss what leads to a break up, how to recognize when one is coming, the emotion experiences and patterns, infidelity, boundaries, as well as the stages of grieving that occur. There is talk of redemption, reflection, resurrection, and restoration of the soul. So much...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is HEAVY and contains a trigger and content warning. In this episode, I talk about my alcoholism, what led to my addiction, and the realities no one tells you about drugs and alcohol. I speak to societal problems I see repeating themselves, high schooler, college kids, and adults alike. All of this came about as a result of watching the first season of Euphoria and re...

Send us Fan Mail Happy Aries Season! I got to enjoy a wonderful conversation about anger and annoyance with my friend Amelia Passer in this episode. We discuss the roots of anger, how we experience it, and what we do when those kinds of emotions come bubbling up. Acknowledging anger as a natural process of healing grief and speaking on our responsibility to our anger and to others we share space w...

Send us Fan Mail I’m delighted to host Briana Georjae for a second edition of Spiritual Hygiene and it’s uses in Shadow work. This episode is a beautiful and knowledge-packed channel, highlighting a deeper understanding of what spiritual hygiene is and how it can be helpful in relating to our shadows. She teaches us when spiritual hygiene tools are needed and how to utilie them. Briana brings her...

Send us Fan Mail This episode was a sensitive one for me. I touch on issues like the pandemic, the invasion of Ukraine, emotional defeat and some of the forms in which it shows itself. Within the episode, I speak to a challenging moment I experienced during the pandemic and some of the lessons that came from it. I read a poem, fitting for the times, by Khalil Gibran and teach an easy and powerful...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I speak on compassionate care for the self that is shadow work. With simple shifts of perception and ways of looking at things, the darkness and shadows within us begin to shift and lose some of their weight. Tons of metaphors, two poems by an ancient poet, views on society's obsession with immortality, and much more. This is an intimate dive into lessons I’v...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to our first featured guest show! Today, we were lucky enough to spend time with Briana Georjae: a folk herbalist, yogi, and energy hygienist. We learn what energy hygiene is, why it's important to do along side the shadow work path, and many different ways to practice it. If you've recently become curious about shadow work, are on your path, or are simply listen...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome back! Join us as we dive into discomfort... as the vehicle to growth. This episode includes a few personal stories about my experience with discomfort, which led to expansion and clarity. We will also discuss the process of growth and face truths about our collective human experience. Quotes from Yogi Berra and Chani Nicholas are shared and their wisdom explored. Chloe Lio...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Down With My Demons Podcast! Join me, your host Chloe Lionheart, on this very first episode to find out a bit more about me, what you can expect from the show, and how you can get involved. This show features parts of why I am starting this podcast and what inevitably led to it being realized. Shadow work, quotes from Carl Jung, pieces of my personal shadow journey,...