The Resiliency Center, LLC

08/29/2025

“What you deny subdues you. What you accept transforms you.” — Carl Jung

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08/27/2025

Check out this podcast about IFS and Shadow Work!

I’m so excited to share about my favorite tool for inner work! Both the people I work with and my own inner work has grown by leaps and bounds using Internal Family Systems (IFS) for shadow work...

08/25/2025

“Sometimes we stand in our brightness, sometimes we sit in our darkness, but at all times we must balance both sides of ourselves.”
― Megan Mary, The Dream Haunters

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08/23/2025

Sign up for Nature Therapy Intensives with Therese! Designed for adults, Nature Therapy Intensives provide an individualized 6-week journey to learn grounding and mindful techniques intended to rewire the anxious mind using nature as a guide.

Each week’s session is two hours long, consisting of a nature walk, talk therapy, and invitations from nature-based therapy. As we walk together in nature, you will have an opportunity to connect with nature and listen more deeply to your true inner self.

Please contact Therese at therese.danielslcpc@gmail.com and check www.rootstobranchestherapy.com for more information.

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08/21/2025

5 places to look for your shadow:

- Think about people who provoke an exaggerated emotional response in you, either positive or negative. The things you dislike or admire about them could be undeveloped potentials in yourself.

- Think about your fictional heroes and villains – who’s your favourite character in the drama/sitcom you’re following? Which character do you most despise?

- Slips of the tongue. When you say something you didn’t mean – or someone takes something you’ve said in a way you didn’t mean – what would it say about you if you meant it?

- Notice what people say about you – both criticisms and compliments – anything you balk at could flag up qualities in you that you haven’t fully recognised.

- Consider anything which blocks your ego-desires, anything you normally fight against in life, as possibly carrying shadow aspects. Physical symptoms which stop you doing what you want, for example.

Jung called the Shadow ‘the seat of creativity’ because it contains every potential in us, not just the qualities we identify with. Instead of being limited and narrow, like our ideas about who we …

08/19/2025

“The Shadow is not evil. It is everything You were told to hide in order to belong, anger, desire, grief, neediness, brilliance, queerness, eroticism, boundaries, pleasure, pride. In short: the parts of You that threatened the story someone else needed You to play.”

― Diana Von Rigg, Dom(me) the Darkness Within: Ritual Shadow Work for the Neurodivergent & Kink-Aligned

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08/17/2025

The shadow is referred to often as the disowned self.

“A man who is unconscious of himself acts in a blind, instinctive way and is in addition fooled by all the illusions that arise when he sees everything that he is not conscious of in himself coming to meet him from outside as projections upon his neighbor.” – Carl Jung.

So why have we cut ourselves off?
Why have we disowned aspects of ourselves,
Only to be haunted by them and their terrorizing voices which thwart our dreams,
And become externalized in what we think are annoying qualities in others,
Keeping us unconscious and in many ways neutered?

But your defense mechanisms and your fears are outsized for the reality that we want to create here, so let me tell you straight , I see you.

08/15/2025

“There is a huge new frontier awaiting our exploration, and it is not the macrocosm of the universe but the microcosm of the mind.”
― Dennis William Hauck, The Emerald Tablet: Alchemy for Personal Transformation

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08/13/2025

The shadow, according to Jung, is the unknown "dark side" of our personality—dark both because it tends to consist predominantly of the primitive, negative, socially, or religiously depreciated human emotions and impulses, like sexual lust, power strivings, selfishness, greed, envy, anger or rage. Due to its unenlightened nature, it is completely obscured from consciousness. Whatever we deem evil, inferior, or unacceptable and deny in ourselves becomes part of the shadow, the counterpoint to what Jung called the persona or conscious ego personality.

The shadow is the unknown ‘‘dark side’’ of our personality. Here's why we both fear it and need it.

08/11/2025

“Shadow work is the way to illumination. When we become aware of all that is buried within us, that which is lurking beneath the surface no longer has power over us.”

― Aletheia Luna, Mindful Shadow Work: Exercises For Befriending Your Dark Side, Healing Trauma, and Finding Joy

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08/09/2025

Shadow work is a modern take on an idea by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung. Jung said we all have a ‘shadow’ self – the part of ourselves made up of traits that we fear and dislike. He used the term ‘shadow’ to reflect the fact that this side of ourselves is always there, we can’t escape it, and to capture the way we see it as dark and unwanted.

Jung believed your shadow self can manifest when you make an unguarded remark or act impulsively, and he believed it showed up in dreams too.

Essentially, the goal of shadow work is to get to know your shadow self better, learn from it and integrate it into who you are. The rationale for doing this is that your shadow is a genuine part of you, so by acknowledging it and processing that side of yourself you’ll feel more authentic and whole.

The goal of shadow work is to get to know your shadow self better, learn from it and integrate it into who you are.

08/07/2025

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
— Carl Jung

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