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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.
Down With My Demons: The Shadow Work Path
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 focus when she came to realize a psychosomatic phenomenon through one of her students. Linda tells us about what a psychological non-epileptic seizure is and how other unconscious psychological material manifests itself through the body. Through work with dreams, she has been able to facilitate great healing with clients and her community. At the end, Linda gives us amazing tools to work with our dreams and the initial steps which will help with this particular process of discovery. This episode holds meaningful stories, dream scapes, and powerful revelations, and reminiscence from our past together, while honoring our present and future. Please subscribe, following, share, and leave a review! I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did, see you next time.
Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
To get in touch with Linda Buzogany:
For therapy: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/linda-buzogany-therapy-littleton-co/239181
Her Book, "The Superman Years": https://www.amazon.com/Superman-Years-Emotional-Parent-Diabetes/dp/1469986809
Email: Lindabuzogany@gmail.com
- To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
Follow Chloe on IG: https://www.instagram.com/chloelionheart/
Resources:
Dream Tending with Dr. Steven Aizenstat:
https://dreamtending.com/
To find out more about Functional Neurological Disorder:
https://fndhope.org
Books:
"Dreambody: The Body's Role in Healing the Self" by Arnold Mindell
https://www.amazon.com/Dreambody-Bodys-Role-Healing-Self/dp/1619710005/ref=asc_df_1619710005/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312681615521&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2357755986531162341&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028750&hvtargid=pla-571407815465&psc=1
"The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma" by Peter Levine
"Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole" by Robert Moss
"The Dream and the Underworld" by James Hillman
"Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path for Everyday Life" by Robert Moss
Terms:
-psychological non-epileptic seizures
-conversion disorders
-functional neurological disorders (or phenomena).
Tips for Remembering Your Dreams:
1. Tell yourself you are going to remember your dream
2. Before you open your eyes or move when you wake up, try to recall all that you can
3. Write in your journal before doing anyth