Are You Doing Shadow Work to Get Away from Your Pain?

Relationships shape every part of our lives, yet most people are still stuck using outdated ideas of what makes them succeed or fail. In this episode, Teal Swan breaks down why mastery of relationships is essential—not just for personal happiness, but for humanity’s future. She also shares why her own experiences, challenges, and “failures” make me uniquely qualified to guide others on this path.

Relationship security is something that can and should be customized to the specific people in that relationship. Being conscious and intentional enough to customize relationship security in this way, makes all the difference in your relationships and at the same time, it has the potential to break society free from its tendency towards rigidity. Let’s unpack the concept of customizing relationship security so that you can start customizing it in your relationships.

When it comes to emotions, we do things like ignore, suppress, deny, blunt, reject, fix, turn against, try to control, minimize, distract ourselves from, disguise, dissociate from, numb out and violently act out emotions. For so many reasons, it is critical to re-connect with your emotions and start to feel them again. In this video, Teal is going to give you an exercise to do plus a few more tips, which will help you to do exactly this. 

So much of our effort in our social life is spent trying to get people to change. Despite all of our effort, we often find ourselves powerless to getting them to change. Why is this? Because a person will not change unless they want to. And this, is one of the hardest things to accept. In today’s video, this is what we will be unpacking.

Never underestimate the power of self-questioning. In this video, Teal Swan is going to give you one of the best questions you can ever ask yourself, as well as explain to you why it is such an important question. 

What people are calling “Disorganized Attachment” is one of the most tormenting and painful things that a human being can experience. And very few experts actually understand it. So, let’s look at disorganized attachment from a different perspective and also explain what you can do about it.

In this episode, Teal dives into one of the most common pitfalls of shadow work, so that you don’t find yourself falling into it and so that you can get yourself out of it.

Welcome to the age of technology. Here is a stark reminder from Teal Swan - never forget that today, what you are seeing online is not a reflection of reality, it is a reflection of your algorithm. 

Because uncertainty is such a tormenting experience for us as people, Teal is going to reveal to you a question that you can ask yourself in times of extreme uncertainty, which has the power to turn things around for you, as well as some other tips for facing times of extreme uncertainty.

Feeling chronically unsafe implies that your body is being constantly flooded with stress chemicals and that you are living in chronic psychological distress. This takes a toll on your wellbeing big time. For this reason, Teal Swan is going to give you some tricks for how to feel safer.