Becoming Stewards of Shadow: Beyond Great Men and Myths of Invention

Becoming Stewards of Shadow: Beyond Great Men and Myths of Invention

We have been taught to see shadow work as a modern innovation—an invention of psychology, popularized by Carl Jung and carried forward by therapeutic modalities like Internal Family Systems. But before the psyche was carved into parts with elegant diagrams and marketed methods, cultures around the world were already walking with shadow.  Various African healing traditions have long-standing practices of engaging with hidden parts of the self—thr…