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Identifying Projection, Releasing Toxic Shame & Integrating The Shadow

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Identifying Projection, Releasing Toxic Shame & Integrating The Shadow

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Those scary, embarrassed, scared and painful parts of yourself that you're trying so hard to suppress, rationalise, talk yourself out of, push down or "correct" - those parts are your shadow.
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Early Bird Tickets are $9.50 .Tickets Near to the Event $ 20 .
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After Your ticket purchase , Then Please send email at Soniapeterson1986@gmail.com , Then Zoom Invitation link to the workshop will be sent to your email address before the event starts.
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To be able to fully accept ourselves we need to accept our shadow, integrate our shame bound feelings, needs and wants. Growing up in dysfunctional families can cause splitting and make us feel ashamed when:

  • We need help
  • Feel angry
  • Assertive
  • Sad
  • Fearful,
  • Sexual
  • Happy
  • Embarrassed
  • Weak

Shadow represents any part of us that we’ve been shamed out of, deemed unworthy or rejected. These parts of us carry huge amounts of energy that we will either act in or project out onto others.

We all think that our shadow is the worst, that other peoples' shadows don't even compare to what we’re trying to suppress, we develop the belief that we're the only weirdos and we’re broken. Damaged goods.

We can’t run away or hide from our shadow. Repetition compulsion says, what we don’t heal we will either reenact on others or find people reenact on us. Such experiences create unknown knowns and cognitive dissonance. Freud observed that patients did not remember anything that they had repressed, instead they acted it out.

If we don’t become conscious of and reintegrate our shadow we will project it onto others or find new people to reenact past traumas on us.
At some point in our childhood, something related to these rejected or projected traits severed the connection with the primary object (parent). It could be punishment, rejection, withdrawal of love, shaming, etc. Being disconnected from our parents is dangerous for a child so in order to remain connected (to receive love, milk, food, warmth, protection) children disconnect from the "dangerous traits".
To stop the inner child experiencing the feelings of fear and abandonment we will try to suppress these feelings through emotional eating or substances, many often project these traits onto others even their own kids.

Mark Stubbles, a hypnotherapist, CBT practitioner, life coach, Master NLP & Mindfulness practitioner who specialises in helping anxiety and inner child healing will discuss the shadow, splitting and projection in detail. After growing up in a dysfunctional family Mark struggled with CPTSD, anxiety, dissociation, emotional flashbacks and emotional regulation.
He will take attendees through exercises to reintegrate these projected parts of themselves and hold a hypnosis session to end.

This workshop is for you if you:

  1. Trust Issues.
  2. Suffer with uneasy feelings
  3. Suffer with negative self talk.
  4. Suffer with poor self esteem.
  5. Suffer with a poor self image.
  6. You would like to be a better parent.
  7. Your partner has accused you of being abusive.
  8. You suffer with anxiety.
  9. You use sex, drugs or food to numb your emotions.
  10. You have anger issues.
  11. You try to avoid your feelings.
  12. You have no confidence.
  13. You feel ashamed of your sexuality.
  14. You struggle to form relationships.
  15. You feel inadequate/inferior.
  16. You worry how other people perceive you.

Early Bird Tickets are $9.50 .Tickets Near to the Event $ 20 .
Book your space Here RSVPing on Meetup does NOT secure your place.

After Your ticket purchase , Then Please send email at Soniapeterson1986@gmail.com , Then Zoom Invitation link to the workshop will be sent to your email address before the event starts.

Best wishes
Sonia , Mark

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