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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
Sex Series: A ‘Not So Black and White’ Conversation About Consent with Lisa Chatham Part 1
This episode marks part one of our first ever Sex Series! In honor of Scorpio Season, the holiday season, and the shifting of our environments and selves, we dive into some of the edgier and more taboo parts of life. This first episode features Lisa Chatham, a Naropa University professor and licensed Psychotherapist. We begin to unpack the very difficult to navigate conversation that is consent and discuss the not so black and white nature of it. Lisa brings brilliant psychological, developmental, and social information to the table to aid a well rounded discussion. Consent is a topic that requires much more than an hour long conversation so thank you for baring with us as we do our best to hit some major (and maybe some unpopular/controversial) points. I hope you enjoy, see you next time.
*If you or someone you know is/has experienced sexual abuse/assault/violence, please seek support. You are not alone.
https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
- To get in touch with Lisa Chatham:
Website: www.lisachathampsychotherapy.com
*National Sexual Assault Hotline (24 hour service)
1-800-656-4673
RESOURCES:
“No” (2017) Series by The Heart Radio with Kaitlin Prest
https://www.theheartradio.org/no-episodes
“In The ‘No’ Part 2” by RadioLab
https://radiolab.org/episodes/no-part-2
“In The ‘No’ Part 3” by RadioLab
https://radiolab.org/episodes/no-part-3
CONSENT!
"Consent: 101" A Series by Planned Parenthood
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3xP1jlf1jgJRkChwVOlwQcV0-UqcWiFV
"Consent is as easy as FRIES!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTSDIilyA2I
"Coffee Consent: The other half of the consent argument"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOrGa7vPzvQ
"Consent: For Kids!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AArIv-tvxWE
"Sex Education Should Start with Consent" with Kaz (Tedtalk)
https://www.ted.com/talks/kaz_sex_education_should_start_with_consent?utm_campaign=tedspread&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=tedcomshare
BOOKS:
"It Doesn't Have to be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff" by Dr. Drew Pinsky and Paulina Pinsky
Comprehensive List of Books dealing with Sexual Assault
https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/list/share/186066773/1069795477