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 ...

If you listen to psychology podcasts or follow mental health–related accounts on social media, you’ve probably heard of shadow work. The concept comes from the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung’s ...

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 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, ...

I doubt the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), in all his prescience, would have predicted that his work would one day fuel a TikTok trend called “shadow work”. Life coaches and self-help ...

Shadow work is a profound psychological and spiritual practice that involves confronting the darker, hidden aspects of our ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Considering how expensive and time-consuming therapy can be, it's understandable to crave a faster and ...

Do you constantly feel the urge to heal and grow? Is there a nagging voice that says, “You have so far to go before you can [fill in the blank]”? Healing isn’t always work. For those of us inclined ...

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 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 ...