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Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path
Down With My Demons is a podcast for people who are ready to stop spiritually bypassing, turn toward their pain, and build a more honest relationship with themselves.
Together, we explore shadow work: all the parts of us we’ve hidden, exiled, or learned to be ashamed of. Through storytelling, depth psychology, trauma-informed insight, and intimate conversations with guests, we look at the raw, uncomfortable material of being human: grief, rage, desire, shame, longing, burnout, and everything in between.
This is a space where:
- No parts are bad parts – every emotion and pattern is seen as meaningful and workable.
- We connect dots between your personal story and larger systems (family, culture, capitalism, patriarchy, colonization).
- Nervous system + soul work meet – we talk about the brain, body, and psyche, and how to actually integrate change instead of just talking about it.
- Big topics are named out loud – complex trauma, addiction, pleasure, power, money, sex, spirituality, and the collective grief of living in uncertain times.
I’m Chloe Lionheart – a doctoral candidate in clinical depth psychology, therapist, researcher, and longtime befriender of my own shadows. I don’t come as a guru, but as a fellow human who’s been cracked open and is still learning. Expect real talk, tenderness, and basking in raw humanness.
If you’re:
- tired of self-help that skips over the hard parts,
- craving language for what you feel but can’t quite name,
- longing for companionship on the path of becoming…
…then this show is for you.
Come sit by the fire, bring your demons, and let’s find out what they’ve been trying to tell you about the life you actually deserve to live.
Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path
Forgiveness
This episode means a lot to me in that it's been a life long journey and exploration of how I interact with the world and with my internal process. Forgiveness can feel confusing.... how do we forgive? Forgiveness can seem impossible, especially when we've been betrayed and hurt. Something deep in us knows that forgiveness is in our best interest and sometimes it can be easier to forgive others than to forgive ourselves. Often we think forgiveness has the vibration of "it's all ok," or "no worries." But forgiveness is not about compliance. It's about freeing ourselves so we can stop dragging painful and transformative moments throughout all aspects of our lives. Please subscribe, follow, share, and if you feel inspired, leave a review! I hope you enjoy and I look forward to see you again soon.
Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
"Forgiveness is letting go of the idea that the past could have been different" -Chloe Lionheart
PRACTICES:
Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta Meditation)
- Happiness
- Health
- Safety
- Peace
May you…
May I…
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Ho’oponopono
I’m sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
I love you
RESOURCES:
To learn more about Yom Kippur:
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yom-kippur-history-and-overview
VIDEOS:
“Why forgiveness is worth it”
https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_montana_why_forgiveness_is_worth_it?language=en
“Healing our hearts and the world through ho’oponopono”
https://xmonks.com/healing-our-hearts-and-the-world-through-hooponopono/
“Loving-Kindness Meditation (Metta)”
https://www.mindful.org/this-loving-kindness-meditation-is-a-radical-act-of-love/
"Listening to Shame"
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame?language=en
"The Power of Vulnerability"
https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_the_power_of_vulnerability?language=en
TUNES:
"Forgive Them Father" by Lauryn Hill
https://youtu.be/RTQL42onK08
"Please Forgive Me" by Bryan Adams
https://youtu.be/7x8wPt8xarE
"Ms. Jackson" by Outkast
https://youtu.be/MYxAiK6VnXw
"Sorry" by Justin Bieber
https://youtu.be/fRh_vgS2dFE
"Sorry" by SOJA
https://youtu.be/rfnuhefGC78