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Shadow Work Explained: How to Heal and Integrate Your Hidden Self

• Christine Renee, Isabel Wells, and Shantel Ochoa • Season 3 • Episode 18

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What if the parts of yourself you’ve been hiding aren’t broken—but the very key to your healing? In this transformative episode on shadow work and self-healing, Christine Renee and Shantel Ochoa reveal why shadow work isn’t about battling your “dark side,” but instead learning to love, accept, and integrate the hidden aspects of yourself.

Christine shares a vulnerable story about her own shadow activation around body image, showing how most shadows form before age eight as protective mechanisms. From there, you’ll be guided through a powerful 5-step shadow work process designed to help you heal and integrate your shadows:

✨ Recognize triggers with self-awareness
✨ Meet patterns with curiosity instead of judgment
✨ Practice radical self-acceptance with accountability
✨ Alchemize old beliefs into new possibilities
✨ Integrate through conscious routines and emotional regulation

You’ll also learn how shadows commonly show up in everyday life—through grief, addictions, people-pleasing, escapism, or emotional reactivity—and how compassion can transform them from destructive cycles into sources of wisdom and strength.

If you’ve been curious about shadow work, trauma healing, or spiritual awakening, this episode reframes shadow work as a path to wholeness, resilience, and emotional freedom. You’ll walk away with practical tools and spiritual insight to support your healing journey and reclaim the energy that has been trapped in old patterns.

Whether you’re new to shadow work or seeking deeper integration, this conversation will help you move beyond self-sabotage and step into a life rooted in authenticity, self-love, and inner power.

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Speaker 1:

It's time to remember your divine purpose and limitless potential. Welcome to Wisdom Rising, the official podcast of Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. Join shamanic Reiki practitioners Christine René, isabel Wells and Chantelle Ochoa as we guide you on a journey of radical self-discovery and spiritual guidance. Each week, we'll dance through the realms of shamanism, mysticism, energy, healing and personal development to illuminate your path to true healing and self-sourced wisdom Through weekly inspired conversations and interviews with leading spiritual and shamanic practitioners. We are here to help you acknowledge, reconcile and balance your energy so that you can awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within. Welcome back, my friends, to another amazing episode here on the Wisdom Rising podcast. In today's episode, once again, you're getting an exclusive webinar replay from our Shadow Work 101 community webinar that Christine and Chantel hosted last week. This incredible webinar dives into shadow work as a topic that is often misunderstood and very intimidating, and so in today's webinar, in today's episode, christine and Chantel are going to talk about what is and isn't our shadow. How does the shadow develop? Where's the connection to our inner child, our limiting beliefs, our subconscious mind, our inner critic? How do shadows reveal themselves and how is that connected to the times when we feel triggered? And also, how do we heal our shadow self? Through self-awareness, through curiosity, self-acceptance and alchemizing the energetic patterns of limiting beliefs, so that we can rewrite the stories of our lives and create more embodied, expansive routines. This is once again part of our Soul Rising webinar series. You've heard a few of these on the podcast now, and this topic dovetails beautifully with our previous episode on inner child healing. So if you're interested in learning about the inner child aspect of shadow work, be sure to check out that episode. And as with those previous episodes, today's show does include references to the slideshow, the chat and the giveaway. So if you want to see the slideshow for today's podcast, be sure to head over to our YouTube channel. And if you want the chance to be entered into a giveaway or participate live in a chat with our spiritual community, be sure to check out our spiritual events page on moonrisinginstitutecom. We have so many incredible free offerings, master classes and workshops planned for you in the coming months, so be sure to check out that link. It is in the show notes, as is every other link that we mention in today's episode. And of course, you'll hear us talk about at the end, our soul rising shamanic reiki course.

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Speaker 1:

So be sure to reach out to us if you're interested. You can email us at mystics, at moonrisinginstitutecom, send us a message on Facebook or join our Moon Rising Shamanic Mystics Facebook group, a community of over 4,500 incredible individuals walking this work right alongside you, including grads who are happy to talk to you about what it's like to be a Soul Rising student. And, of course, don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube. Subscribe to the podcast, follow us on Instagram and share this work far and wide, because that's what's going to allow us to cast this net of light and healing around the planet. I hope that you enjoy today's episode. We would love to hear from you and connect with you in our community or through email and, of course, we'd love to hear your top takeaway from today's episode. Shadow work can be deep healing work, but it doesn't have to be as heavy or intimidating as we often think, as you'll hear in today's show. So, without further ado, let's dive in.

Speaker 2:

Here is our Shadow Work 101 presentation with myself and Chantel, to kind of to give you the scoop, the real deal. And so, as we start, meet your team. I'm Christine Rene for the Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. I am the visionary, I'm the one who kind of gets these big downloads of what we're supposed to be doing and creating the bigger picture of our programs and offerings and holding the sacred space for the bigger container as well as, like, bringing in new information, organizing our team, supporting our facilitators and as well as teaching. You know, I think we all love that aspect too, like I know, like I know, like I am, that I was born to teach this stuff, like this is my soul's calling, and so I'm really happy to be in this space to share with you tonight, and I'm so excited to have Chantel with us as well. So, chantel, will you just give us a little snippet about yourself as well?

Speaker 3:

Yes, Hi everyone, I'm Chantel Ochoa and here at Moon Rising and so really tuning within and to help you to walk that path and where your authentic self is, and so bringing that forward in many different ways and showing up for you wherever you need me to come, but showing up with Christine and Isabel to really bring forward a well-rounded balance between the visionary, the mystic and the alchemist. So welcome to our presentation here tonight.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, I'm so excited and, just you know, this is also a really good time if you have your pulsanto, your sage, taking a nice deep breath, tuning in to your genetic self, because all of us here are in a sacred container, like just knowing that we are here to learn, to grow, to expand our knowingness and learning how to take next steps on the self-healing journey. So welcome, welcome, everyone. Okay, so for tonight, what are we up to? This is what you can expect from this presentation. What is and isn't our shadow so important to know? How does the shadow develop? How do shadows reveal themselves? How do we heal our shadow selves? And we're going to do questions and answers in the giveaway. Anything you want to add to that, chantal.

Speaker 3:

I would just say, if you want to take some notes or write down any questions that you have for the Q&A at the end, that would be really helpful, especially because we just want you to be able to take it all in now and not try to remember what it is that you want to ask at the end. Yeah, so just take your notes and we'll get to those at the end. Very good, so what is and is not our shadow? Our shadow self is the unconscious part of who we are that we have pushed away, are repulsed by that we are hiding from, but is a part of us and are parts of our personality, desires and traits that we find unacceptable.

Speaker 3:

Our shadow is not the habits, the addictions or the behavioral outcome. Those are just the cries of attention from the shadow self. So we see our shadow self as being an aspect of ourself. It's all of our bad habits, our addictions and behaviors that we aren't fond of, that we try to suppress, we try to ignore that we aren't fond of that. We try to suppress, we try to ignore, and what ends up happening is that these shadow aspects grow and eventually they will show up, and so when we see them, it's not ignoring but giving light to them. It's integrating them. It's giving ourselves that self-love that we need so that we can find balance within our light and our shadow self.

Speaker 2:

You know, what's really interesting is tonight is our full moon, blood moon, lunar eclipse and so.

Speaker 2:

I feel like right now, right in this astrological moment, things are definitely, you're definitely feeling it. I know personally, I have a medical procedure on Tuesday and I've been like oh hello, shadow over the last few days, right, and so I wanna give you a very personal example of what this can look like so that you can kind of recognize it in your own lives. So for me, there's a couple of things going on. Yes, I have this medical procedure coming up on Tuesday, but and that has got some things that are pulling to the surface the other thing that's pulling things to the surface is my daughter just entered middle school and I was severely bullied in middle school for being the size that I was. I was really underweight, I looked like very skinny, I was just very tiny and I was called the anorexic girl and everyone bullied me and I was like my only member. Memories of middle school is getting bullied and crying in corners and at one point I even had an Asian gang trying to take my life. You know like it was. It was pretty, it was pretty severe and right now, with the surgery coming up and with the weight, that I'm not surgery, I'm sorry. This procedure that's coming, I'm not having surgery.

Speaker 2:

I'm really, I'm not that bad, but it's brought up a lot of like my body image, stuff of like, okay, here I am going to be very vulnerable, and I'm having to recognize that, like I'm going to be in this vulnerable state and like the voices in my head are saying things like oh, I don't look in the mirror, you're just ugly.

Speaker 2:

Or like we would never do that, right, like it's very much looking down at my body right now, because I'm going to be, I'm going to have to be very vulnerable and basically nude for my procedure, right, and so this, very as soon as it came up, I was like, oh, this is my shadow, this is the parts of myself that is pushed away. I didn't want to look at it, I'm repulsed by it, and now I'm having feelings of repulsion about what I look like, right, and so this and I can trace it back to where it started, right, so it has emotions, it has desires, so it's telling me one thing, but that's not the way to heal it. It's asking for attention, right, and so it's not necessarily the things that I'm doing, but it definitely is trying to have this protective layer, which is what we're going to get into next.

Speaker 3:

So noticing there is a root cause to the shadow aspect. There's a reason why that shadow is showing up, why the emotions are showing up for her, why the thoughts are showing up. So it's not like it's just something that is created. It's something that has occurred throughout your life, or even if it's just one time that it occurred, but it created some kind of an emotional response that triggers you when something shows up that's like remind you of an experience in the past.

Speaker 2:

Exactly, and so this is how it develops. It's typically at a very young age when the conscious mind hasn't developed. So before the age of around eight years old, we're just open subconscious, absorbing everything, and so if someone says something to you, you usually absorb it. And so when we have traumas of rejection, abandonment, abuse, our experience of the shadow self develops as a self-protection mechanism to fight, fight, freeze and fawn, right. So for my example of being bullied, I typically would freeze, I would freeze up, I would fawn, I would try to make myself small, I try to get out of the way, I would try to hide. You know that flight or freeze was my protection mechanism.

Speaker 2:

So when it shows up, like right now, it's showing up and it's telling me to don't go, don't do the thing that you need to do for this medical procedure, right? It's saying run the other direction. We are not doing that Right. And so I'm recognizing, oh hello, shadow. So, depending on the trauma experience, the shadow self can be expressed as different aspects. They can show up as inner child, they can show up as your victim, your saboteur, your warrior self. How is it showing up?

Speaker 3:

Yeah, so recognizing the inner child, the victim and the saboteur those are four archetypes that we all come in with right and through birth, but what it is is that that is how you can recognize the version of yourself that is showing up as a shadow. Wendy, are you feeling and how are you feeling like the victim? How are you self-sabotaging yourself? How is your inner child reacting to the trigger or the response that's going on, if we are having any deep emotional cords attached to a situation, to people or a memory that can really charge us in a very negative way, and so then we start having the fight flight, freeze or fawn. Do you want to run? Do you want to stay? Do you want to you know, stay? Do you want to freeze?

Speaker 3:

Whatever it is that your response mechanism is. That's how your shadow is going to show up, and so it can feel really sticky. It can feel like you can't move. It can feel very much like you're stagnant or you need to move, you need to leave, like you got to abandon the situation, abandon the people, and so that is when we feel that emotional charge to our shadow, but we're able to look at it and say, okay, we can fix this because we can go within ourself to do it, and so this is wrapping ourself up in the light version of ourself to be able to bring forward the healing that our shadow self needs.

Speaker 2:

Right, which is still part of our self-protection Right. So this is one of the reasons why I picked this picture on the bottom. It's like she's walking forward. Her past memories are in the past and she's trying to kind of deny those. She doesn't want to look at it, and that's oftentimes. What happens is that we don't want to look at those yucky places from our past. Yet their behavioral traits are still living in our subconscious and they're showing up anytime that we feel triggered.

Speaker 3:

And I love the one on top because a lot of times our first bully can be a wounded parent Absolutely, and we don't look at it like that right. If we are raised by a wounded parent who's really showing up as their wounded child, they will parent from that perspective in that way. So a lot of times we were bullied by our own parents and don't even know it.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it can develop in a lot of ways. Right, and we all have them. And so how do these shadows reveal themselves? The shadow often shows up as habits or traits that are seeking external validation, and is expressed when we feel grief, escapism, extreme emotions, addictions, absorbing other people's energy, opinions, projections, the people pleaser and like so so much more. It can show up in a lot of ways.

Speaker 3:

It really does. So let's talk about grief for a minute. So typically with grief, we look at grief as a loss of a loved one, but really there are so many different facets and layers of grief. It's grief of loss of self-identity, loss of an opportunity, a past love and trauma in the past, relationships with parents and siblings, etc. So these layers of grief don't always get looked at. We just think of them as our experience throughout life. But then grief starts to show up in our behavior and our patterns and those are absolutely things that we need to heal through, not just through the loss.

Speaker 3:

And then escapism is when you want to run and leave and abandon a situation, even if it's for your highest good to stay. So say, you're at work and you have a situation with a coworker and suddenly you just want to check out and leave work, or you want to quit your job, or you have an argument, you know something like that when escapism is because you're trying to avoid the situation and not look at it versus taking it head on. Maybe you don't like conflict, right? There's fear of conflict and if you see it as a conflict you're going to run. So escapism is coming back and recognize we cannot always leave our situations. We have to heal through them, we have to work with them, we have to, you know, collaborate with the people that we are interacting with.

Speaker 3:

Extreme emotions this is that, you know, yo-yo effect, that the dips in our personality, of our emotions, where you can go from one extreme of being happy, high and enjoy, and then you can be angry and mad and thrown a fit. You know having like your own emotional tantrum as an adult. And it's because there's no emotional regulation. And when you can emotionally regulate, you can take a moment to breathe, you can do some self-regulation, some, you know, tapping of yourself different techniques that help you to breathe, to relax, to give yourself a moment to respond to the situation in your own authentic way, without blowing up on the other person.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, it's really interesting when we see our shadow and where you are at in your shadow work, because these are going to start to shift once you start doing the work of it, right.

Speaker 2:

So when the shadows first reveal themselves, it can be these extreme emotions and, like, for my example, I've been crying off and on for two days now, right, Like I just feel like I'm constantly on the brink of tears, right. And so I'm like I see you, I see you and we're going to give you space to cry and I'm going to hold the emotion. I'm going to be around other people who can hold the emotion. I'm going to give myself grace, I'm going to ask for help when I need it, you know. And so we learn how to start working with our shadow side. But when we are in suppression mode, it shows up as addiction. When we're in suppression mode, it shows up as escapism, as those blown up emotions, and it also shows up when we start absorbing other people's energy, opinions and projections. So when someone else is triggered and they're projecting on you their stuff, their shadow side is like, and you, you then absorb it, you like, okay, well, I'll take that on, I'll carry it.

Speaker 3:

What else do you have to say to that one, chantel? Um? So I see it as one. We one. We are absorbing others if they're projecting on us, but we can also be absorbing theirs, because we feel like we're not being seen or we're weak in our own self, right. So we're trying to take energy from other people so we can feel stronger, so we can feel in balance.

Speaker 3:

But what ends up happening is it's like this falsity that's occurring within, because if that person leaves, you're not really the one with the ideas and the energy and the opinion. So we as a lot of times, when you're in suppression mode, you are going in to the external world and looking for your validation instead of going within and asking yourself is this the right step for me? Do I need to do this? Right? The answers are all within us. But within suppression mode, we tend to go and seek everyone else's opinions and answers as our truth, as our validation. So then you can become a people pleaser. Right? How many of us are people pleasers where you just want to give everyone what they want so that the situation is handled. But is it really handled? No, it's just a layer upon layer that we are doing. We're masking it right or we're just putting a band-aid on it. So it's really noticing where our boundaries are, setting those up energetically and verbally, for ourself as well as others, so that they'll respect who we are right and as far as so much more.

Speaker 3:

There is so many different aspects that this can show up in whether it's your mood, whether it's your mental thoughts. Mental thoughts is a lot of it, our thoughts, they create our reality. So where we are and what we think about ourselves becomes our truth. So we have to change the way we think of ourselves so that we can change into more of a positive aspect of life. Instead of searching for all the negativity that's happening around us, we can focus on the more positive aspects. And where do we have gratitude in life? Where are we happy? Who's showing up for us? How are we showing up for others? Where are we in service? How are we doing our healing? And these are all aspects that start to show up when you start doing your shadow work.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, well, and I'm noticing too, like when you can recognize your shadow and say this is what they would really love to hear, and then you're like you're in, you're, you're in process, right. Like I'm now aware that I have my shadow and I can see what they need and I'm going to see if I can get other people to say it to them rather than yourself. Then you're still in process, like I'm recognizing that in my, in my own experience right now, like I want my family, my boyfriend, I want them to call me pretty right now, because I don't feel. I don't feel good about myself because of this shadow that's showing up. And when I really tune in and I settle down, I'm like that's not going to, that's not going to fix anything, that's just the bandaid, right. I don't want to look in the mirror. Where do I actually need to go to the mirror? I need to do some mirror work and really dive in deep of learning how to love myself in all of that shadow, right. And so that's where we're coming to next is really understanding.

Speaker 2:

How do we heal the shadow? Self, self-awareness is the first step of healing. I say that time and time again, because when we can be. Whoa, that was a big emotion. Where did that come from? Let's go look back of the last time I experienced that emotion, or the first time I experienced that type of emotion. What was going on there, right, and so feeling ugly about yourself. That was not something that came up for the first time last week. It happened in my childhood, right? And so, having that self-awareness of going, I see where this was born out of. I can see why she is crying out for help right now. I can see why she wants the Band-Aid because it's an easy fix.

Speaker 2:

That's only the self-awareness is only the first step, right? So then we have to stay curious and we have to investigate. We've got to stop ignoring the emotions and pushing them away. Right, like, my shadow self is like the solution is to never look in a mirror again and don't look like, just don't do it, like we just get rid of all the mirrors and it'll be fine, right?

Speaker 2:

That's not a solution. That's my young, 12-year-old shadow self trying to not do the work, right, and I've got to be the adult self going. I see you, I see you. I see that you're going to try to push this away and we're going to go do some journal prompts and we're going to go do some year work and we're going to go talk to a therapist or whatever. It is right, like there's other ways to do it, and really one of my favorite ways is to do a shamanic journey to my shadow and nurture them and heal them and witness them and see them in where they're at, so that they can feel loved and accepted in the way that we weren't when we were children.

Speaker 3:

And then we have self-acceptance and loving accountability. So when we are going through these steps which these are actually some of my, one of my favorite ways of going through shadow work, because you have a step-by-step, you know, you have your self-awareness, you're curious, you're investigating your why and then you have self-acceptance, so knowing if your shadow shows up and you're acting out in some way, this is not self-punishment, this is not for you to go blame yourself and punish yourself and say, oh my gosh, I know acted this way. So now I need to give myself that self-love and recognize where it came from and in that moment you're able to heal the timeline of that energy. So you can take it all the way back to your childhood or your younger years, whenever it occurred. And through that self-awareness and that work that you're doing with self-love, acceptance and your awareness, you are now healing that timeline. So then you're going to alchemize the energy which is allowing and releasing the energetic patterns of limiting beliefs. So once you start to realize what the limiting beliefs are and that is literally going step by step, like I see it I see where it started, why did I feel like that? And when you start taking the layers away, you are really healing that energetic pattern and the limiting beliefs.

Speaker 3:

Then, to get to start to heal, you start changing that I'm not ugly, I am beautiful. I am not sick, I am healed. You know I am worthy not to be bullied. You know I am strong, I am healed. You know I am worthy not to be bullied. You know I am strong, I am not weak. You start speaking to yourself in a way that starts to alchemize you. It starts to pull that energy up. You're raising your consciousness, you're raising your emotional intelligence. So all these things start to occur for you because you're having this self-awareness and you're bringing it back to you versus going out to everyone else asking them their opinions.

Speaker 3:

And then you get to integrate. So once you've done all of this work and it doesn't have to be a long time you can take your time doing it, but you literally can do this in a matter of minutes or hours. If you do, once you start to really learn how to do it, it can be really really fast. You're it, it's like it can be really really fast and you're like, oh my gosh, I can't believe that. That came up and triggered me again.

Speaker 3:

So when you start to integrate, you now have all the awareness, it is now setting new conscious patterns and routines for yourself.

Speaker 3:

So then, if you know you have some routine doctor appointments that are coming up or some investigative doctor appointments that are coming up, or some investigative doctor appointments that are coming up, to follow the example that Christine is using is, then you can say you know what I'm going to set some new routines for myself.

Speaker 3:

Maybe I'm going to do some self-love, some self-care, a couple of days before the appointment is, you know, scheduled. You know meditate a little bit that morning, maybe take yourself out for breakfast or coffee or, if you're fasting, you know there's certain things you can do, but you're taking care of you taking a nice hot bath, maybe lighting some candles, some music, self-love, whatever it is you feel that you need. That your physical body needs your emotions, your thoughts and everything. Right, we are looking at whole body. So when you look at your spirit, your mental body, your emotional body and physical, you are looking at the whole picture of who you are and now you can change these patterns, your conscious awareness to it and your routines, which is going to help you process whatever it is that you're going through.

Speaker 2:

Yeah, and it's really interesting because when we talk about the shadow self, the point is not to cut them out of your life, to love on them so much that they feel held and heard and seen as being part of you, right, and so I think really one of my the biggest trigger was that my daughter started middle school. She's never done that before, so this shadow side of myself came up recently, not because I haven't done shadow work before, it's just this aspect hasn't been brought forward before, right, and so at that point it'd be like it was really like wow, there's a lot of emotions that I'm not used to feeling and experiencing. Where are these coming from? Right, like when we can get in that curiosity phase. And then now, like I'm doing the work, I've got the things on my list to do and I can change the language, I can alchemize, I can integrate, I can do self-care.

Speaker 2:

But if it shows up, let's say, in three months, when my daughter comes home from being bullied herself, my inner child, my shadow side, is going to be much more prepared to handle that situation. Right, and so this is why we do the work. It's not that it's not ever going to show up again, it's so that we can honor and love all of the aspects and give us grace and not have big blow-ups or breakdowns or whatever it may be. However, they like to get your attention, because that's the key. It's like they're trying to get your attention, to draw your energy to someplace within you that needs love.

Speaker 3:

It's knowing that your shadow is. You right, it is, it's us, and so what it is, too, is that, when we went back from the beginning of the presentation, is that our shadow a lot of times is the warrior within us, and it's our shadow that has helped us get through so many past situations. So when it does show up because there's a trigger, there's's something that has occurred. It's time now to look at it, probably maybe for the first time. Right, like she's saying her daughter's never gone to middle school, so now she's being triggered by it. So now is the time to look at it and say, okay, I can heal this and work with this right now. Daughter has an experience. Hopefully not, but if that happens, she'll have the strength to be able to say, okay, we can, we can hit this, we can do this now, we can take care of this. Yeah, absolutely, warrior's going to show up and be like warrior mom. Yeah.

Speaker 2:

Right, totally. Then you're a mama bear and like that's, it's all going to work, right. And so, in the process of your healing, like yeah, I had a massage today, yes, I took some time to do self-care, I, you know, like there's all these things that you're going to be like, how can I bring that shadow aspect into whatever you're doing, right? So you need to match the activity that's going to help you alchemize with. The shadow is part of you, that's being, that's asking for love, that's asking for support, that's asking to be seen, and I think that's I mean really like when we come into it, it's so beautiful when we can come from a grounded place and being curious. So we're not judging, like I think that's so key. We don't want to come into a space of I'm going to judge it, I'm going to try to get rid of it, I'm going to try to push this, this aspect of me, away. That's not going to work. It's going to just keep coming back again and again and again and again. Right, so we need to go. How can I get curious about what this aspect of me needs right now? How can I nourish them? How can I support them in expressing their emotions, so that we can move through it, so it doesn't have to be triggered every time this thing happens in their life, right, and so when we can have that witnessing curiosity while staying grounded and centered, that's when shadow work really starts making a shift.

Speaker 2:

When shadow work really starts making a shift Because then, when things come up in your life, you'd be like, oh well, there's my 25-year-old self again, or there's this happen, and instead of going right into response mode, you're going, I'm going to take a breath, I'm going to sit back, I'm going to recognize, I'm going to feel into it, I'm going to take some time. And that's when you can move through these really quick. Right, you can have the self-awareness, you can get curious, you can have the self-acceptance, you can alchemize and put in new patterns in place. You can witness the limiting beliefs that are showing up and go. No, remember, we're safe now. We're safe now. I love you fully and completely, and we're going to say this instead. Okay, here's the new pattern. I.

Speaker 3:

Yeah. So the goal is for us to be able to have self-awareness before someone else tells us you know how many times are you in a bad mood and someone's like oh, are you okay? You seem really, you know, cranky today, or you look tired or whatever, and that just triggers the situation even more. So, having the self-awareness when we get to that place where we can say you know, I'm feeling kind of grumpy today, I'm going to go do something, I'm going to go sit outside, I'm going to go smudge or whatever, you know, I'm feeling this way. When we have that self-awareness, that's that accountability. So then nobody else has to come to us and recognize us first. We can just go, take care of us and then show up balanced and centered. And all of that because that is our goal is to get to that place where we feel regulated within our emotions and our experiences.

Speaker 2:

Yeah. So in the chat, I would love to know how regulated do you feel when an activation, a trigger, an activation occurs Like let me know in the chat, like from zero, no response at all. I'm totally chill. 10, I'm blowing up like where are you at in your self-awareness process, because then you can really kind of gauge of like okay, how, how much, um, how much am I on my journey with the shadow self? Because it is a journey and it is part of you and it's part of all of you and we have many shadows.

Speaker 2:

It's not like there's this one image of this is my shadow. There's all these different aspects. It's like looking at a prism of going oh well, there's this hurt in me and there's this hurt me and there's this hurt me, and some of them are intertwined and some of them are singular and you can see what. Wow, it feels really heavy right now. I just want to have that drink, I just want to have that cigarette, I just want to go to that, I want to go to the bar or whatever it is. What are we masking? So we're not witnessing and holding space for the hurt to allow it to move and process forward?

Speaker 3:

And a second question to look at is not only where are you on your emotional regulation, but how long does it take you to process and get to the part where you feel like you are being regulated, that you are regulating yourself? Does it take a few hours, take a few days, weeks? How long does it take you to process your emotions and your thoughts? Days, weeks, how?

Speaker 2:

long does it take you to process your emotions and your thoughts? So in mine's interesting like I can be really self-aware and I'm in the emotion of it, witnessing it from the background for days, and then I'm like, oh, I'm really tender right now. I can witness myself in my tenderness. I want to be. I want people to create like safe, nurturing spaces for me. I want cozy blankets, right, like that's inner child Right. And so it's kind of like, okay, I am aware of this, I can see where it's coming from. Now I need to take the time to actually sit and do the work. I need a journal, I need to do the mirror work. I need to do whatever it is that's going to help me witness it fully Like cause.

Speaker 2:

Oftentimes for me it's like it's just in the background, it's an undercurrent that I can go oh, I see that coming up. Oh, I see that coming up again. Oh, it's here now I can't. I can't just be this undercurrent anymore. I can't just be this undercurrent anymore. I need to really sit with it, witness it, hold it, and it's really fantastic if you have someone to do that with, and it's even better if you're not seeking the validation or permission or all of those other behaviors from someone else. If you can do it for yourself, right, yeah. And so it's normal to end the beginning, beginning especially in the beginning to have a variety of emotions and going like I feel shame when I'm in uncomfortable situations, right, when I take responsibility for failure, even when I was learning, right. Then we can go. When was the first time I felt that way? Where did was this, this emotion birth? Where was it born out of? Right? And so we get to get curious about it, right, and we get to witness how long it takes, we get to witness what your process is, we give her, can give herself grace of.

Speaker 2:

I know that when something comes up in me, I need a day to process and settle into my energy again and be calm and really recognize what's happening for me before I discuss it with someone else, like that's a valid awareness, it's all, but it's self-awareness, right.

Speaker 2:

And so this is, this is why I love this kind of stuff, because it's all about personal growth and I'm I'm kind of a personal growth addict. Like I love finding those growth edges, I love finding those places and spaces that I'm like, oh, and look at this. This is another area that I now have the opportunity to love me even deeper. Because when I love myself fully and completely and I'm on such a deep level, then I can move through life as, like, kind of ecstatically. I get to witness the joy, I get to witness the pleasure, I get to witness the great things that are about human life, because I know how to alchemize all of the heaviness and why I feel that way when I'm. When I take someone else's energy on, I can witness like, oh wow, I noticed how I did that there. How do I want to do it differently?

Speaker 3:

Very important and it's really important because what it does is it helps heal all of our relationships right. When people start seeing us shift, they get curious about why we are shifting and they go start doing the work for themselves. Not everyone, but eventually, if you change enough and do enough of your own self-care and work, people are going to start doing that with you Because they can't regulate with you, they can't match your frequency. If they're hanging out way down here and you're raising yourself up and they're still in shame and blame and guilt and you know emotions and you're up here and happiness and joy, they can't reach you Right.

Speaker 2:

So they've got to rise up to you.

Speaker 2:

That's it Like when people start projecting their energy on you and you're like, yeah, I'm not available for that, I'm not available for that. That's like one of my favorite phrases. When people start projecting, like, wow, you're projecting your energy, your past experience, your hurt on me and I'm not available for that, and it just. It's just, you just cut through and so then those relationships fade out because they're still trying to use other people as mirrors instead of an actual mirror and looking at themselves. So we have three programs at Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. We have our Soul Rising Shamanic Reiki Training and then we have the Intermediate Practitioner and then we have the Advanced. So know that like, the deeper we go, the deeper we go. So now that you guys know what shadow work is and we've been able to really distinguish, how do we recognize our shadow? What does it show up like? How do we heal from our shadow sides? How do we really love on all of those aspects? And I really want to know who's ready to take some action on this. This is really important life transformative work when we start to get in the shadow and really start to accepting and loving all of who we are Right. And so part of this work is it like it matches with shamanic work, it matches with energy work, and so if you want more, I want to hear yeses, I would love to see that. So today we were able to really learn that process of how do we, how do we get to the alchemization point, how do we witness and recognize that in ourselves? And so I would love to to take you deeper on this journey, and that's within our soul rising online shamanic Reiki course. That's our you know the step one of what we offer at moon rising shamanic Institute. We have that's our you know the step one of what we offer at Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. We have a few people who have already joined and a few people who have already graduated from this program. So if that's you, I'd love to hear your, hear what you have to say about your experiences in the program in the chat box.

Speaker 2:

But it's designed for every spiritual seeker looking to create deep relationships with their spirit team. So I'm sure you notice like, oh, and if you did a shamanic journey on this, it's going to be powerful, right? So we can then have this witnessing, this recognition of, oh, my shadow is showing up, that part of me is showing up and now I'm developing a spirit team to go on the journey with me to heal all of those aspects of myself. We're taking it to such a deeper level and so in soul rising we're learning how to shamanic journey. We're learning how to activate our spiritual gifts while developing our intuition, connect more deeply with nature through ceremony and ritual and learn transformative techniques like cord cutting and soul retrieval and so much more like it's profound because all of these shadow work is so intertwined with inner child work, which we cover with cord cutting, with soul retrieval. It all supports one another in the healing work. So soul rising really help you go from that overwhelmed stress, triggered empath that we've been talking about, to an empowered, confident, healed and fully embodied person.

Speaker 2:

So this is a four-month program and that's, if we take out the holidays, like we're gonna take a break for Thanksgiving, we're gonna take breaks for winter, break, for Christmas, and so it really is like almost a five-month container and the training takes you step-by-step, easy-to-follow methodology to awaken those spiritual gifts, trust your intuition, heal your past traumas, heal your limiting beliefs and step into your highest self in a tangible way. So what we're going to cover in soul rising are things like how to develop your unique spiritual gifts, the power of the subconscious healing for transformational, total healing. We're going to go over the anatomy and physiology of your energetic system and how it all connects to those energetic cords, to your soul fragments that you lost long ago and how to gather them all back. We're going to talk about the shamanic roots of Reiki and how to embrace them, how to identify, process, release and heal those limiting beliefs it's such an important piece how to connect with your spirit, team and intuition through shamanic journeys, and so much more. So now I'm not going to pretend that we're the only experts in shamanic training, nor am I going to say that this is right for everybody. There are shamanic training programs out there that's going to help develop the clairvoyance and connect with your guides, but what makes this program really different is that we stand apart by empowering you to do the self-source with wisdom, rather than following guru-based teachings.

Speaker 2:

I don't want cookie cutters of me. I don't want cookie cutters of Chantel. I don't want cookie cutters of Isabel. I want you to be all of exactly who you are. So by the end of the program, you know how to journey to your questions. So if you have a question in life of how do I need a support on this? You can go to your spirit team and you can be have that self-sourced wisdom from within you. So our approach acknowledges that there's no single right way or wrong way to personal growth. We offer you an array of tools and techniques and then you follow through with your own personal support. We follow through with all that personal supports that you can find the best step forward for you.

Speaker 2:

We've all done our own healing work. We've been in the depths of trauma, limiting beliefs and self-sabotaging behaviors, and done the work to find a better way of living. We figured out how to teach these skills and still the confidence and find a path forward that creates lasting transformation. We break it down with a clear methodology to support you, moving from a people pleaser who can't put themselves first and feel stuck on the hamster wheel of anxiety, to a confident and empowered person who knows their worth and is connected to their purpose. So in soul rising, you'll get the prerecorded videos covering the lower four chakras, the seat of most limiting beliefs and the most healing. Why? Because that's where we've developed our subconscious mind. You know, that's where it is all absorbed. So you'll receive the training videos on shamanic and spiritual coaching techniques to make healing tangible. Activating actions we have like over 35 activating actions to balance and heal your energy. Do the guided meditations and workbooks you'll receive.

Speaker 2:

There's two or three calls a week and we base the call schedule on your availability. I Tetris this all together you give me your availability and I put the call schedule together so you don't have to worry that the schedule is not gonna work for you. I'm gonna make sure it works for you. We also have a private student community and chat so you guys are available to support one another. So if you've ever felt like an outcast and can't connect with anyone, you can come into this group place and everyone is right where you are.

Speaker 2:

You all are sharing your own intuitive visions and things that you see and how a spirit shows up for you and all of the weird, wacky and wonderful ways, and you're accepted and supported in that process and know that. If you want to jump on a on a call with me, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out on Facebook messenger. You can also talk to Chantel or Isabel with that. Thank you all so much for joining us this evening. If you have questions, please reach out to me and we will see you soon. Thanks everyone. Thank you everyone. Thank you, bye everyone.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for tuning in to today's show. The Wisdom Rising podcast is sponsored by Moon Rising Shamanic Institute. If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe to the show on your favorite podcasting app and be the first to know when we release a new episode. You can find us on Instagram, facebook, youtube and TikTok at Moon Rising Institute, or visit our website, moonrisinginstitutecom to learn more about our mission and find future opportunities to connect with our community of shamanic mystics. Once again, thank you for sharing space with us today and until next time, may you awaken to the whispers of wisdom rising from within.