Identity

According to Carl Jung, The shadow self (or the dark side of the Self) is your animal nature that lives behind your social persona. This includes the usual suspects like our fear, anxieties, envy, lust but also positives like instinct, intuition, compassion, and spirituality. The less you know it and own it, the denser, deeper, and more unpredictab... See more

Andy Travis • Your Shadow Is Your Superpower

Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual

1. Inner Life & Identity (Self-in-Context)

What part of me feels most alive or most distant today?
What assumptions about myself did I notice, reinforce, or challenge?
Where am I performing, and where am I simply being?
What part of me wants to be seen—but hasn’t yet found the words?
What feels like “mine,” and what feels inherited or borrowed?
What

A Definitive Guide to Jungian Shadow Work: How to Get to Know and Integrate Your Dark Side

Scott Jeffrey scottjeffrey.com

IFS is grounded in the observation that the mind is naturally multiple, housing a variety of subpersonalities, or parts . We experience this multiplicity when we feel torn between conflicting desires; maybe part of us wants to pursue a challenging opportunity, but another part fears the risk, while a third part feels exhausted by the inner debate.

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Nick Barr • Enhancing Self-Therapy with Internal Family Systems and AI -

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Alex Dobrenko • i'm probably wrong (and that's okay maybe good even???)

Who Am I?

Look deep into the recesses of your being, and identify everything you think makes you, you.

Traverse all your mind’s pathways, and locate every desire and thought. Summon every opinion and belief, every interest and passion, and interrogate each and every one, relentlessly.

Ask them where they came from, and who planted them. Ask them if... See more

The Pursuit

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