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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 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 of, we hold that same capacity to tear down those in our same species, in the futile effort to make ourselves feel better. In this weeks episode, I explore the concept of hate. Where it originates in our development, how it can show up, and what we can begin to do about it in our lives. At the end, I share a practice that we know and love that helps when coming to consciousness about our ability to hate and next steps to take on our shadow path. Please subscribe, follow, share, and leave a review! I hope you enjoy and I'll see you next time.
Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
VIDEOS:
“What we can do about the culture of Hate” Sally Kohn
“Who is the Ni$$%#” James Baldwin *Content Warning*
“Empathy is not Endorsement”
“I grew up in the Westboro Baptist Church: Here’s Why I left”
RESOURCES:
Melanie Klein https://melanie-klein-trust.org.uk/theory/paranoid-schizoid-position/
TUNES:
“New Speedway Boogie” Grateful Dead
https://youtu.be/ucfnMES9u3c
"Black Rage" Lauryn Hill
https://youtu.be/mKZAYa8W448
“Let it Be” The Beatles
https://youtu.be/CTcb_33-DiI
"Strange Fruit" Billie Holiday
https://youtu.be/-DGY9HvChXk
“Killing in the Name” Rage Against the Machine
https://youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ
“AEnema” Tool
https://youtu.be/rHcmnowjfrQ
"You Outta Know" Alanis Morrisette
https://youtu.be/NPcyTyilmYY
"Creep" Radiohead (Cover)
https://youtu.be/hXlzci1rKNM
"Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd (Cover)
https://youtu.be/rirDOIttODM