Do the Shadow Work: And Find Lasting Self-Love and Acceptance

by Charlie Morley

Overview

Discover what shadow work really is and how to reclaim and integrate your shadow self for healing and transformation.

Your shadow is made up of everything you hide from the world: your fears, your shame and your wounds, but also your untapped brilliance, unexpressed talents and potential. By learning to embrace and integrate these hidden aspects of yourself, you can unlock profound healing, self-awareness and personal power.

With over 20 practices that blend ancient wisdom and modern psychology, this transformative guide will help you:

• Recognize the shadow and how you create and project it
• Find and express the golden or ‘positive’ shadow self
• Transform fear and shame into loving awareness, energy and power
• Integrate the parental, sexual, ancestral and childhood shadows.

This book will take you on a life-changing and healing journey of self-acceptance. It’s time to stop running from your shadow and start befriending it. It’s time to do the shadow work.

Part of this book was previously published as Dreaming Through Darkness (ISBN: 9781781807354).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401979645
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	04/01/2025
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Charlie Morley is a best-selling author and lucid dreaming teacher who has 15 years’ experience in the fields of sleep, dreams, shadow work, and mindfulness. He has been lucid dreaming since his teens and, at the age of 25, became one of the first Westerners officially “authorized to teach” lucid dreaming practice within the Karma Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. This offers him a unique insight into lucid dreaming and a rare ability to synthesize both Western and Eastern perspectives on lucidity. www.charliemorley.com

Editorial Reviews

‘Charlie’s book on shadow work is a profound exploration of the darker aspects of our psyche – the parts we often avoid but that hold the key to our growth. By bringing our shadow into the light, Charlie shows us how to embrace and work with it, unlocking the personal power that lies within.’
—CAGGIE DUNLOP, AUTHOR AND HOST OF THE SATURN RETURNS PODCAST

‘This is a pioneering resource. Its innovative approach combines Jungian psychology with a spiritual richness that facilitates true personal and psychological growth.’
—DR HEATHER SEQUEIRA, CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGIST AND TRAUMA SPECIALIST

‘In the depths of the shadow’s darkness lies a treasure beyond price. Charlie’s book provides both the compass and the map to that treasure.’
—JAMES SCURRY, PSYCHOTHERAPIST AND COFOUNDER OF SAFELY HELD SPACES

‘Do the Shadow Work is a powerful invitation to turn inwards and uncover the treasures hidden in the parts of ourselves we often avoid. Charlie Morley’s bold, transformative guidance is a gift to anyone ready to step into their wholeness and embrace their light and darkness alike.’
—DAVID R. HAMILTON, PHD, AUTHOR OF THE JOY OF ACTUALLY GIVING A F*CK

‘Life-changing. Charlie offers tried-and-tested methods for retrieving your buried treasure and living a more authentic, joyful and connected life.’
—MATTHEW GREEN, AUTHOR OF AFTERSHOCK: THE UNTOLD STORY OF SURVIVING PEACE


‘Charlie Morley is simply one of the best teachers I know. He combines profound wisdom with wit and humour and turns any topic, even shadow work, into something life changing and so much fun!’
—VISHEN LAKHIANI, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE CODE OF THE EXTRAORDINARY MIND


‘Charlie Morley elegantly dismantles a delicate topic for us all, and offers up a beautiful sigh of relief for those of us embarking on our own journey of self-discovery.’
—EDDY ELSEY, AUTHOR OF LET HEALING HAPPEN

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