Turning Pain into Purpose, Wounding into Art

Harvesting Our Shadows into Gifts & Gold

One of the key ingredients to becoming more self-loving and accepting of your shadows is to begin to understand how your shadows SERVE you, when they are integrated and brought into balance and in connection with the rest of you.

What I'm saying here is NOT that your shadow behaviours are intrinsically healthy, but that there is an energy contained within the shadow that could bring you something amazing, and as long as you resist or run from these parts, these gifts will never materialise in your life.

Often, our deepest purpose and happiness is found only once we do our shadow work.

It's not easy translating our shadows into gifts, so here's a selection of videos of Christian coaching others as they begin to 'unzip' their shadow files.

The first video is a beautiful, fun and profound coaching interaction between Christian and a participant at the 2013 Heart Summit, where he helps a woman named Teresa to see the gift of 'not giving a sh!t' and 'giving up'. Lot's of medicine here...

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Ready to Go Deeper? [Trigger Warning]

This next interaction is with a participant who is deeply in pain around an unthinkable shadow. The content of this video might be upsetting but if you feel ready to explore a more extreme example of shadow ranges and how they can be translated into gifts, watch the video below...

Here are Some More Examples of Other Common Shadows Translated into Gifts...

Taken from the 2012 Heart Summit, here's Christian coaching participants on a variety of different shadow ranges and how they can be gifts when integrated through an open Heart.

Enjoy!

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