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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
Dark Night of the Soul: A Love Story of Change
This episode explains a bit about what I've been experiencing and the wisdom I've been gleaning over the last 10 months away from the pod. Join as we unpack a dark night of the soul and what it means to both be in the darkest depths and to emerge. Some of the themes include the element of water as a metaphor for emotions and being in the shifting landscape of humanness, lesson learned in the deepest parts of drowning, the beauty of the dark and its necessity, and tools to help BE with the process of it all. Please like, subscribe, share, and most of all I hope you enjoy.
https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To connect with Chloe Lionheart:
Email: chloe@downwithmydemons.com
RESOURCES:
"The Red Book" by Carl Jung
https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/red-book-of-carl-jung/the-red-book-and-beyond.html
"The Missing Element: Inspiring Compassion for the Human Condition" by Debra Silverman
https://debrasilvermanastrology.com/the-missing-element-book/
"Motherpeace Tarot Deck and Guidebook" by Karen Vogel and Vicki Noble
https://motherpeace.com/
Mentions:
Manjusri: https://buddhismnow.com/2010/03/25/manjushri-bodhisattva/
Mermaid Archetype: https://shimajournal.org/issues/v12n2/g.-Inkol-Shima-v12n2.pdf
The "Depths": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uCySQOMB-4