Shadow Work with Klara

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The shadow holds the parts of yourself that you’ve hidden, rejected, or disowned. It may show up in relationships, work, or self-sabotage.
As Jung said:
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.”

Shadow work allows you to:

• stop repeating painful relationship patterns
• release projections (the stories you put on others)
• reclaim energy, power, and creativity
• integrate “forbidden” emotions
• soften harsh self-judgment
• develop authentic boundaries
• mature the inner masculine and feminine
• access deeper intuition and inner authority

Shadow work is not comfortable — but it is profoundly liberating.

The emotions, impulses, and traits you learned were “too much,” “not enough,” or “wrong.”
Example: anger, sexuality, ambition, neediness, vulnerability.

What you criticize or

idealize is triggered  by in others.
The shadow you refuse becomes the face of the people around you.

The distorted forms of your inner archetypes:

• The Warrior becomes aggressive or passive.
• The Lover becomes needy or numb.
• The Magician becomes manipulative or disconnected.
• The King/Queen becomes controlling or powerless.

In women’s cycles:

• Maiden shadow → fear of being seen
• Mother shadow → overgiving, depletion
• Enchantress shadow → rage, chaos, self-sabotage
• Crone shadow → withdrawal, shame, invisibility

• Breath as the doorway
  Breath softens defenses and reveals what the ego hides.
• Active Imagination
  We invite inner figures to speak (animus, inner child, archetypes, subpersonalities).
• Somatic witnessing
  The body reveals what the mind avoids.
• Projection retrieval
  We separate fantasy from reality and return the libido home.
• Integration ritual
  What once felt dark becomes a source of strength.

1. Think of a person who triggers you.
2. Write: “What exactly bothers me about them?”
3. Replace their name with “I.”
4. Notice the part of you that wants to be acknowledged.

Example:
“He is selfish.” → “I am selfish.”
Maybe there is a buried need in you to choose yourself.