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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
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 much conversation about it. The stigma and shame felt by many men around accessing or seeking out mental health continues to be a huge problem. Conversations like these will hopefully illuminate the versatile and beauty of different methods available to men all around the country. We briefly discuss gender, privilege, race, and the revenge on men experienced through social media and the like. If you or someone you know is struggling with their mental health, please share this episode or any of the resources below. It only takes one person to care and get curious to make a huge impact in someone's life. I hope you enjoy and 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 Garrett Hooper:
Website: https://www.garretthoopertherapy.com
RESOURCES
Articles:
"Men's Mental Health - The Silent Crisis"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-about-men/201702/mens-mental-health-silent-crisis
"How Men's Mental Health Impacts Families"
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/sharpening-some-iron/202201/how-men-s-mental-health-impacts-their-families
Books:
"King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine" by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette
https://www.amazon.com/King-Warrior-Magician-Lover-Rediscovering/dp/0062506064
"Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World" by Bill Plotkin
https://www.amazon.com/Nature-Human-Soul-Cultivating-Fragmented/dp/1577315510
"Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche" by Bill Plotkin
https://www.amazon.com/Soulcraft-Crossing-Mysteries-Nature-Psyche/dp/1577314220/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1666246442&sr=1-1-ef9bfdb7-b507-43a0-b887-27e2a8414df0
Therapeutic Resources and Trainings:
https://www.openskywilderness.com/
https://www.sacredsons.com
https://www.manuncivilized.com
https://mantalks.com
https://therapyforblackmen.org
https://gestaltoftherockies.com/