You ask, I answer! The main question I had on my previous video was "What actually IS shadow work?", so hopefully this can address some of those concerns.
3 Book Recommendations:
Owning Your Own Shadow, by Robert Johnson
Romancing the Shadow, by Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf
Integral Life Practice, by Wilber, Patten, Leonard & Morelli
A fair number of commenters have been very kind and asked for Amazon links to help support the channel. Although, that is not the purpose of these videos, I will provide links here should you wish to purchase a book via them (I'll get a kickback of 1-5%, I think - I haven't researched it!).
Owning Your Own Shadow, by Robert Johnson https://amzn.to/4kQaP5c
Romancing the Shadow, by Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf https://amzn.to/3Fs2Nj0
Integral Life Practice, by Wilber, Patten, Leonard & Morelli https://amzn.to/3FDi800
(At the time of writing, you can get these books for £6, £13 and £6.50 - an absolute steal!)
Auto - self-directed
Biblio - books/library
Therapy - Healing
So, autobibliotherapy = self-directed healing via books
In this 3 hour playlist, I will summarise my library down to 15 book recommendations that will significantly impact the effectiveness and depth of your inner work journey.
Aims:
• To provide a full curriculum to complete 5+ years of scattered Inner Work in 1 focused year
• To introduce you to a wide and overlapping set of theories and modalities to approach your inner work from all angles, including:
- unconscious and shadow work
- height psychology
- somatic therapy
- personality development
- Life coaching and plans/guide for the future
- Philosophy (existentialism)
- Anthropology (the study of human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture)
- Transpersonal psychology and psychosynthesis
- Inner critic and parts work
All with key books for each element to take the study further
• To address various interrelated aspects of yourself instead of isolating elements arbitrarily, and formulate a plan on how to do this inner work
• To increase your attention span so that you can sit down and read, leading to lower screen time
0:00 Let’s Focus on 2 Aspects: Persona, then Shadow
0:38 The Persona - Explanation, How It Developed, Role and Purpose
2:20 The Key Tension: Fitting In vs Being Unique (Outward vs Inward Reality)
2:53 The Shadow – How It Relates and Complements the Persona
3:50 Shadow Development – The 360 Degree Personality (Robert Bly)
5:24 This Video is a Response to Your Questions – Please Keep Sending Them In!
5:56 Diagram – How Shadow Material Inevitably Builds Up
7:07 Anger Example – Traits and Personality as Functional
9:00 The Need for Both the Persona and the Shadow for a Fulfilling Life
11:05 3 Book Recommendations (PLEASE READ THESE!)
12:07 Key Summary of Shadow Work
#shadowwork #persona #carljung