Shadow Tag

What's an emotion you are trying to avoid feeling? As a baby, what were you told to not do? How do you define failure? When do you're feeling cared for? Your TikTok For You page could also be asking you some difficult questions recently (the above are only just a few) and calling it shadow work, often through shadow work journals. For those unfamiliar, it is a mental health practice that focuses on confronting parts of ourselves and our lives we can have unwittingly rejected out of fear, shame, guilt, and discomfort and reintegrating those parts back into our being, based on Recent York City-based psychiatrist Anna YusimMD. "Essentially, loving all parts of ourselves because what we resist persists," she...