Shadow Work. Part 2 – The Psychology of Shadow Work: Jung Meets the Soul

Let’s go deeper.

Jungian psychology gives us a language for what mystics have always known: there’s a world inside us that shapes the world outside. Jung described the psyche as made up of the ego (our conscious self), the persona (the mask we wear), and the shadow (our hidden self). Beneath all of that lives the Self, the divine essence trying to become whole.

For those on the twin flame path, think of this as the process of inner union before outer reunion. The ego and shadow are like separated lovers within you, constantly dancing, rejecting, learning to merge.

Science supports this inner alchemy too. Studies in depth psychology show that unacknowledged emotions don’t disappear; they manifest as anxiety, projection, or repetitive patterns in relationships. Shadow work brings these patterns to light so they can heal.

In my poem, the line “plenty of drama not mine, inherited, learned” speaks to the ancestral shadow, generational pain that lives in our DNA. Jung called this the collective unconscious, a field of shared human experience.

To heal the shadow is not just personal, it’s ancestral and cosmic. You’re clearing timelines, healing your lineage, preparing the vessel for divine love.

When you cry during shadow work, that sea of grief, it’s not weakness. It’s sacred release. Jung compared this to the nigredo stage of alchemy: the dark night before rebirth. Every tear carries wisdom, every breakdown is the soil for your breakthrough.

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With warmth,

Eve