Shadow Work: A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration

by Michelle Wadleigh

Confront your shadows with Rev. Dr. Michelle Wadleigh’s newest book, Shadow A Spiritual Path to Healing and Integration. Readers will learn to recognize their inner darkness and embrace the lessons that their shadows can teach them, ultimately turning these shadows into superpowers. Journaling spaces and exercises will help readers live Michelle’s lessons, and the book closes with a set of ongoing practices to allow readers to carry the book’s wisdom through the rest of their lives.Based on her own experiences with early childhood trauma, Shadow Work is the culmination of Michelle's hard-earned knowledge of self-love and forgiveness to achieve a life filled with creativity, love, and abundance. For anyone ready to explore and embrace the darkest parts of themselves, Shadow Work offers an easy-to-follow path to transcendence, self-compassion, and healing.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Spirituality

256 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2024

Reviews

[Karin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful, ponderous, weighty. Sometimes felt like scratching the surface and other times brought on major aha moments. The author recommends you take your time reading it...she's right.

[Giuliana Frye · Rating 5 out of 5]

HIGHLY suggest this workbook for all beings ❤️

[Michelle Smith · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s a very short book, with exercises, journal prompts, followed by an example story. I’m sure this will prove helpful to many, but I personally didn’t find overmuch that I was unfamiliar with. I also didn’t require, or find helpful, so many “examples” of people who took a course by the author.


*disclosure: I read the work in this while being in EMDR therapy and after speaking with my therapist.



Thank you to St. Martin’s Essentials and NetGalley for the DRC

[Ron Frampton · Rating 4 out of 5]

A book to help you deal with your inter darkness and learn the lessons your inter darkness can teach you.

[Ali · Rating 4 out of 5]

There was good, useful info in this. I liked that the author used a religion based without being overly religious or criticizing/suggesting any religion. I think regardless of what you practice, to have the unconditional support of your higher power can positively impact success and growth.

Good breakdown of the process, solid starting point, could be useful to someone of any age to get started with shadow work. Not sure it’d be the most helpful for a deep dive, though. Felt a little on the “beginner” side of self-awareness.