Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path
Down With My Demons is a podcast for people who are ready to stop spiritually bypassing, turn toward their pain, and build a more honest relationship with themselves.
Together, we explore shadow work: all the parts of us we’ve hidden, exiled, or learned to be ashamed of. Through storytelling, depth psychology, trauma-informed insight, and intimate conversations with guests, we look at the raw, uncomfortable material of being human: grief, rage, desire, shame, longing, burnout, and everything in between.
This is a space where:
- No parts are bad parts – every emotion and pattern is seen as meaningful and workable.
- We connect dots between your personal story and larger systems (family, culture, capitalism, patriarchy, colonization).
- Nervous system + soul work meet – we talk about the brain, body, and psyche, and how to actually integrate change instead of just talking about it.
- Big topics are named out loud – complex trauma, addiction, pleasure, power, money, sex, spirituality, and the collective grief of living in uncertain times.
I’m Chloe Lionheart – a doctoral candidate in clinical depth psychology, therapist, researcher, and longtime befriender of my own shadows. I don’t come as a guru, but as a fellow human who’s been cracked open and is still learning. Expect real talk, tenderness, and basking in raw humanness.
If you’re:
- tired of self-help that skips over the hard parts,
- craving language for what you feel but can’t quite name,
- longing for companionship on the path of becoming…
…then this show is for you.
Come sit by the fire, bring your demons, and let’s find out what they’ve been trying to tell you about the life you actually deserve to live.
Episodes
Death of a Mother: Grief, Alchemy, and Rising from the Ashes
Seasonality and Tending to Our Becoming
Authority, Integrity, and Rage: An Exploration with Claire Thompson
The Palestinian Perspective: A Conversation We Need
The Grip of Dopamine
PTSD and C-PTSD: Understanding Chronic Trauma
Dark Night of the Soul: A Love Story of Change
Sex Series: A ‘Not So Black and White’ Conversation About Consent with Lisa Chatham Part 2
Sex Series: A ‘Not So Black and White’ Conversation About Consent with Lisa Chatham Part 1
Men's Mental Health with Garrett Hooper
The Shadow of Dating: Ghosting in the 2020's
Forgiveness
The Death of Friendships
The Illumination of Hate
The Shadow of Time
Debunking the Shadow of Saturn, Chiron, and Pluto with Natalia Benson
The Shadow of How We Eat: Coming Back Into Balance and Intention with Callie Cavanaugh
The Tough Truth About Boundaries: Getting Clear, Speaking Up, and Reducing Stress
The Shadow of Femininity in Society: A Conversation about Courage, Feeling, Intuition, and Being with Venus
The Lurking Shadow of Insecurity: Thinking and Feeling with Josh Ruszala
The Shadow of Nourishment: A Conversation about Eating Disorders with Danna Schultz
The Shadow of Self-Care: New Age Narcissism and Leaning In To Connect
The Shadow of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation About Art with Olive Love
Meeting, Dreaming, and Experiencing the Unconscious Shadow with Linda Buzogany
Heal the Patriarchy with Radiant Ransom