A Shadow Work Coaching Service Can Help Reclaim Your Life
When you find it difficult to face your feelings, or navigate subconscious mindscapes, an experienced Shadow Work coach can offer a guided approach and hold space for you to feel safe. Many people get caught up in the emotion rather than view the emotion. Once you learn how to become the witness, you can gain insight, understanding and the self is revealed. The veil is lifted, and clarity offers an aha! awakening moment.
What makes a good shadow work coach?
- Experience in working with others and references is a good start.
- More importantly, qualification as a shadow work coach is first-hand experience. The reason is that you have someone with you that knows the ropes. They know what it is you are about to face, and they know how to work within the subconscious patterns.
- You are also looking for a coach that can hold space and intuitively steer the course. One that knows how to guide you back on the path if you are taking a sidestep.
- And the ultimate attribute is an unconditional love for fellow human beings. This may come without a mention, just a knowing.
- Avoid textbook driven therapist who cannot connect on an energetic, empathetic platform of intuition. Some people visit certified therapist, pay regularly and really, learn very little, and gain no ongoing skill for dealing with difficult emotions.
A shadow work teacher, coach and inner journey facilitator must openly offer clients a working environment where all parts are welcome. At times there are clients that have very difficult issues to deal with. Many therapists do not want difficult clients. Not all therapists are a good fit for the emotional problem at hand. Make sure your therapist or coach resonates with you.
Emotions can often be elusive and immature due to suppression, guilt or shame. Helping clients to explore their feelings so they can come to know their true self is where the work begins.
When we come to recognize our character parts that we have been holding back, we allow growth in a world that we need to fully engage with.
This could be our career, our relationships, our parenting, our self-esteem. Our belief of any given environment is gently exposed to find clues as to whether or not it is working for us.
I like to help others find a way to discover what they are carrying in their emotional suite case and how to lighten their load and reclaim their life.
This offers clients the opportunity to experience more laughter, love and joy. It really is shining a light within the shadow.
It is like an exploration of different subconscious patterns and how they play out in our lives. We are looking for the parts that we have hidden. We allow them to play out in a safe environment where there are no consequences in the real world. We get to know what your true reality is and how it shows up for you.
How Do You Identify Your Shadow?
Shadows can show up as how we judge others, and the relation that judgement has with us. How do we interact with others.
Take anger. You may be disgusted in the anger your father has shown towards you. Others may notice that you have an unhealthy anger issue. On a broader perspective, anger that is displayed to communicate the protection of oneself or others is a good thing. It may be a situation where someone needs to know how they are affecting another person. But when anger is bottled up, and not expressed in a reasoning way, an outburst can eventuate.
The shadow can also show up as an admiration of others that we feel we could never aspire to. It could be a limiting belief. How do we interact with ourselves to find these limiting beliefs and where they came from.
We have had moments in our lives that can leave our spirit shattered. A shadow work coach acknowledges this and at the right moment of the session, the spirit is called back and your shattered energy is reclaimed.
In essence, a Shadow Work coach helps you to reclaim your life.
Emotions and Shadow Work
We have so many emotional parts playing within our psyche. They are all linked to clusters of cellular memory throughout our body and brain. An emotional trigger of any pattern is a result of our sensory perception activating neurotransmitter to instruct the nervous system to respond. Our emotions then produces an electrical current that emits from our body and an action that is perceived to be relevant can take place.
Shadow work coaches work with you to identify emotions, memories, and patterns that have not had the opportunity to have their needs met and nurture them into something beautiful. This is an art of discovery, acknowledgement, and the necessary input for transformation.
That is the skill you are searching for in a coach. It is not a miracle cure. Rather a methodical exploration and repair of repressed and festering subconscious programs that need to feel free to show up with unconditional love, understanding and assisted with embracing a helpful perspective.
There is nothing wrong with you, you have become who you are in order to survive. A shadow work coach helps us go beyond survive and into thrive.