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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
Fear of Success and Playing Small
Fear of success is often disguised as procrastination, excuses, "rational" thinking, and dragging our feet. It's so much easier to talk ourselves out of living a life we love and going after our dreams than it is to take the necessary steps to making it happen. Even if we KNOW it will completely revolutionize and change our lives. Fear of jealous people and judgement, fear of economic insecurity, fear of looking like a fool and being humiliated, fear of total failure, all of these are things we put our energy into to keep ourselves small. In this episode, I break down all of the variables of many of the fears of success and speak to the realities of those fears. Later on, we go over journal prompts to help ourselves begin to move in the direction of courage and compassionate understanding. Please like, subscribe, share and leave a review! I hope you all enjoy the episode and see you next time!
Website: https://www.downwithmydemons.com/
To get in touch with Chloe, please email:
Chloe@downwithmydemons.com
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than risk it took to bloom."
Anais Nin
Journal Prompts:
1. What am I truly afraid of?
2. What would I do if I knew I was supported?
3. What will success bring into my life?
4. What small step/s can I take today toward my goals?
5. Where can I be courageous today? Even if only for a moment.
6. When have I failed and what did I learn?
7. Am I wiser now than I was then?
8. Who can I ask for support from in this process?
“Most of us are forgetting that from the beginning of our life, we are approaching death. Life is absurd but you can fill it with ideas and enthusiasm. You can fill your life with joy.” -Reinhold Messner