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Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path
How to embrace our shadow and unconscious material to help move toward wholeness and greatness. Through the use of storytelling, tips, psychology, and featured guests, this podcast explores uncomfortable aspects of our inner landscape, life in general, growing up, and all things in between. No BS, no games: just real, honest, and raw solidarity. This shows brings the understanding that life is indeed challenging. No parts are bad parts and all aspects of ourselves deserve attention and care. Join me, Chloe Lionheart, a doctoral student in clinical psychology and avid befriender of shadows, on the adventure of a lifetime. If you're ready to get out of your own way and to live the life you deserve, this show is for you.
Episodes
37 episodes
Authority, Integrity, and Rage: An Exploration with Claire Thompson
Join my guest, Claire Thompson and me, as we explore the shadow of authority, how that plays into our integrity, small bits about what it means to move with integrity, and over course RAGE! The episode begins with a dive into working for others...
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Episode 37
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The Palestinian Perspective: A Conversation We Need
This special edition episode is a conversation, much needed on the global main stage. For too long, we here in America, have only ever heard one perspective on the Palestinian and Israeli conflict. We are very fortunate to hear from Ramzy, a Pa...
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Episode 36
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1:44:42
The Grip of Dopamine
This week we are unpacking Dopamine! This is a term that gets thrown around a lot these days and this episode is devoted to the continued exploration of understanding how our brains and bodies work in conscious and unconscious ways. Inside, we ...
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Episode 35
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1:00:03
PTSD and C-PTSD: Understanding Chronic Trauma
Today we're talking about PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and C-PTSD (complex post-traumatic stress disorder). With so much to unpack, we discuss what these two things are, the differences, neurological factors, somatic sensations, how th...
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Episode 34
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1:28:31
Dark Night of the Soul: A Love Story of Change
This episode explains a bit about what I've been experiencing and the wisdom I've been gleaning over the last 10 months away from the pod. Join as we unpack a dark night of the soul and what it means to both be in the darkest depths and to emer...
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Episode 33
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50:48
Sex Series: A ‘Not So Black and White’ Conversation About Consent with Lisa Chatham Part 2
WE'RE BACK!! Thank you for your patience, understanding, and support. On this weeks episode we've got the second part to our interview with the legendary Lisa Chatham. We cover a lot of ground from consent with partners and owning our wanting, ...
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Episode 32
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1:13:26
Sex Series: A ‘Not So Black and White’ Conversation About Consent with Lisa Chatham Part 1
This episode marks part one of our first ever Sex Series! In honor of Scorpio Season, the holiday season, and the shifting of our environments and selves, we dive into some of the edgier and more taboo parts of life. This first episode features...
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Episode 31
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1:31:18
Men's Mental Health with Garrett Hooper
In this week's episode we talked to Garrett Hooper LMFT about men's mental health and why he think's it's taken so long illicit a societal response. Men make up the majority of death by suicide cases in the United States and yet there is not mu...
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Episode 30
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59:05
The Shadow of Dating: Ghosting in the 2020's
Dating seems to be one of the most accessible things in the digital age and also one of it's biggest pain points. Not only in the superficiality of design but also in the lack of real connection through apps and platforms. We've grown accustome...
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Episode 29
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49:15
Forgiveness
This episode means a lot to me in that it's been a life long journey and exploration of how I interact with the world and with my internal process. Forgiveness can feel confusing.... how do we forgive? Forgiveness can seem impossible, especiall...
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Episode 28
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45:06
The Death of Friendships
This episode is one I've been grappling with for many years. It's hard to see friendships go, especially the ones we were in for the long haul. The truth is, death is a natural process to the flow of life and that goes for anything that ends......
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Episode 27
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41:20
The Illumination of Hate
None of us are above the capacity to hate. It's sometimes easier to point a finger and judge people or groups who are different than us and hate them and blame them for how they live and move in the world. With all the love that we are capable ...
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Episode 26
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44:29
The Shadow of Time
Time is something we can't escape though sometimes it seems to evade us. The pace at which we want things to happen is not always the timing that brings them about and it can feel so defeating when they don't arrive on our time. We often say we...
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Episode 25
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44:06
Debunking the Shadow of Saturn, Chiron, and Pluto with Natalia Benson
This episode is jam packed with wisdom about these specific astrological placements that give many of us the heebie jeebies. I'm a believer that fear in something is truly a misunderstanding of the thing itself, and this episode serves as a gui...
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Episode 24
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1:11:51
The Shadow of How We Eat: Coming Back Into Balance and Intention with Callie Cavanaugh
Callie Cavanaugh is a dear friend and a food inspiration in my life. Her "Eat In Method" has coalesced from years of experience and we touch on the path she took to come into balance with HOW and WHY intention with food matters. Through the lau...
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Episode 23
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1:05:40
The Tough Truth About Boundaries: Getting Clear, Speaking Up, and Reducing Stress
This episode is about a topic that's brutally tough for many of us... boundaries! Saying the word, thinking about it, or getting ready to set a boundary has the power to make us hide under a blanket. But what we think is so scary about boundari...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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52:24
The Shadow of Femininity in Society: A Conversation about Courage, Feeling, Intuition, and Being with Venus
There is so much ground covered in this episode with the incredible Venus! What a blessing it was to have Venus join us, especially the day after Roe v. Wade was overturned. We discuss rage and somatic experiencing, dreams, the shadow of the fe...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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1:25:03
The Lurking Shadow of Insecurity: Thinking and Feeling with Josh Ruszala
This episode is PACKED with wisdom from my brother and fellow doctoral cohort member, Josh Ruszala. In this episode, Josh and I discuss how insecurities present themselves in social dynamics and how our thinking and feeling selves play a role. ...
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Episode 20
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1:00:16
The Shadow of Nourishment: A Conversation about Eating Disorders with Danna Schultz
It was a pleasure to host Danna Schultz on this weeks episode about Eating Disorders. Danna is a nutritionist, kitchen witch, and coach who helps her clients navigate a life of joy and pleasure post disordered eating. We discuss the many circum...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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1:11:55
The Shadow of Self-Care: New Age Narcissism and Leaning In To Connect
This week's material was surprisingly edgy as I expose an element of shadow being cast by the self-care industry. This episode I discuss the ego-feeding problems with publicizing self-care and it's use in avoiding other's needs or any of our fe...
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Episode 18
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44:15
The Shadow of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation About Art with Olive Love
This week we heard from my long time friend and professional artist, Olive Love! In this episode she shares her wisdom on the shadow of being an entrepreneur in the art space as well as in the navigation of life. She gives us tips and tricks as...
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Episode 17
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1:08:08
Meeting, Dreaming, and Experiencing the Unconscious Shadow with Linda Buzogany
This episode is a full circle moment for me being that I had the honor of hosting my former professor, Linda Buzogany. Linda is a psychotherapist who works with dreams and unconscious material. She discusses an unexpected turn in her career foc...
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Episode 16
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1:20:44
Heal the Patriarchy with Radiant Ransom
This episode is a sweet and beautiful unpacking of the patriarchy's impact on the life of Ransom and Chloe Lionheart. Ransom took us on the journey of his lived experience navigating "masculinity" and how his perspectives have shifted and evolv...
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Episode 15
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1:04:06
Let Go or Be Dragged - Bringing Awareness to What No Longer Serves Us with Greg Kondor
This was such a sweet episode with my dear brother, Kondor where we unpacked the Zen Buddhist proverb, "Let Go or Be Dragged." In this episode we loosely discuss the energies being felt at this time, how we are experiencing, and what it means t...
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Episode 14
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1:13:07
Fear of Success and Playing Small
Fear of success is often disguised as procrastination, excuses, "rational" thinking, and dragging our feet. It's so much easier to talk ourselves out of living a life we love and going after our dreams than it is to take the necessary steps to ...
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Episode 13
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48:28