Somewhere early on, you learned which parts of you were welcome in the room. Maybe the quiet, easy version of you got the praise while the angry one got sent upstairs, or rest was called lazy and needing something was called selfish. Nobody sat you down and explained the rules, but you watched closely and adjusted, and the parts that didn't fit went somewhere. Carl Jung had a name for where they went. He called it the shadow. What Jung meant by the shadow Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who wor...

The Parts You Were Taught to Hide: Carl Jung, the Shadow, and Why Writing It Down Helps

Jung called it the shadow, the parts of you that learned to stay out of sight. Here's what research says about naming them on paper, plus a 20-minute practice.

The Parts You Were Taught to Hide: Carl Jung, the Shadow, and Why Writing It Down Helps

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