Soothing the Shadow

A new approach to recovery

Sobriety and recovery are paths of forgiveness, reclamation, and empowerment. Yet, they are susceptible to self-punishment, shame, guilt, condemnation, or over-identification with our behaviors. These emotional loops are not so different from addictive substances. This can keep people at the mercy of an authority figure or group outside of themselves and create more shadow than it integrates.

The shadow is all of ourselves that we do not want to face, what we have repressed, denied, turned away from, and abandoned. The parts we judge as bad, wrong, unworthy, shameful, or repulsive. The more we avert our eyes from these parts, the stranger and more self-destructive our behavior can become: projecting these parts onto others, self-sabotage, addictive behaviors, or creating exactly what you wish to avoid. When we find a way to see ourselves fully without judgment, we and the shadow are invited into wholeness.

This is a group for people that wish to face and ultimately befriend and soothe the shadow. To move from a loop into a spiral. To integrate the parts we have disowned and find our way to change and making healthy choices. It can be difficult to put down old habits without knowing what to pick up. This is a group for exploration and discovery of that. Life is more than subtraction. Finding what is additive is essential.

Through emotional investigation, energetic exercises, and group interaction, we will all go beneath the behaviors to explore the roots that inform them and embody the medicine offered by our collective shadow.

Exchange $22

Spiral Mirror provides one free, community spot. Click here to connect with Dan & Corinna at Spiral Mirror for more information. (Note: it has been claimed for this event.)

DAN CHUNG is co-creator of Spiral Mirror.

He is an energy healer, group facilitator, and community builder.

You can find more about him and his offerings at DC Dreams.