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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
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 feminine in society, consent, and about the importance of sharing our abortion stories. Venus gives with her full heart to this episode and we both unpack wounds from the past and what we've learned along the way. There is so much medicine and food for thought in this episode and I hope this encourages many more of us to speak up and out about our stories. Thank you for your patience with the release of this episode and please subscribe, follow, share, and leave a review! Enjoy and see you next time.
*important note* DO NOT utilize the use of herbs, wild crafting, foraging, online pills, or other forms of at home abortions without consulting a professional herbalist, healer, or medical professional first! These particular avenues can be incredibly dangerous, even if they are from the earth. Please use caution and always make sure you have a support system near by.
Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
To get in touch with Venus:
Find her on instagram.com/venus_codes or atwww.themoonmagic.com.
“Bless the thing that broke you down and cracked you open because the world needs you open.” -Rebecca Campbell
“1984” by George Orwell
"Eastern Body - Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self" by Anodea Judith
"The Body Keeps the Score" by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
"Spiritual Fertility: Integrative Practices for the Journey of Motherhood" by Dr. Julie Von
"Living With Feeling" by Lucia Capacchione
https://mobilitymastery.com/ - Fascia Information and Practice
https://www.divinefemagency.com/ - Somatic Coaching
“In Vain Pursuit: How Courtship Culture Trained Us to Disregard Consent”