Everyone talks about “healing your shadow”—but what the fuck is the shadow, and what does “sitting with it” actually mean?

In this deeply personal episode, I share how one seemingly small encounter with a neighbour triggered an old childhood wound—and led me from anger, fight-or-flight and thoughts of injustice to the frightened little sentry underneath it all.

We explore anger as information, emotion as energy in motion, spiritual bypassing, safe emotional expression and the parts of ourselves that were pushed out of sight because they didn’t receive the love, protection or permission they needed.

The shadow is not something dark or nefarious within you. It is a part of you waiting to be acknowledged, witnessed and loved back into the wholeness it always belonged to.

Shadow work is not searching the darkness for what is wrong with you. It is taking love into the places where love was missing.

And remember—don’t step on your shadow.

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Kristin Day (aka Kiki) is a naturopathic herbalist, nutritionist, counsellor, kinesiologist, Compassion Key practitioner & holistic healer treating root cause with 38 years of experience. Soil to Soul explores healing from the ground up — inside out, organically, holistically, soulfully.
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