Aaron Auld
Jungian shadow work, written by one person — a six-week descent for the one who's ready to stop performing.
It started in a notebook
The Shadow Workshop began the way most honest things do — privately, and out of necessity. Years of journaling. A slow dismantling of the self I'd built to survive. Long stretches of meeting the parts of myself I'd spent a lifetime exiling: the rage, the grief, the wanting, the shame. I kept looking for the maps that would make the descent legible, and kept finding that the ones I needed didn't exist. So I wrote them.
Jungian roots, practical structure
Every workbook is written by hand — page by page, prompt by prompt. The frameworks borrow from depth psychology — Jung, the shadow, the ego, the persona — and from the alchemical tradition that gave that work its first language: nigredo, the blackening, the descent; rubedo, the reddening, the integration. I'm not interested in performing psychology at you. I'm interested in giving you a structure to walk through yourself.
Six weeks, two parts
Weeks 1–3 are the fall — dismantling the ego you mistook for yourself, building real boundaries, sitting with what you've exiled. Weeks 4–6 are the integration — the anatomy of triggers, dialogue with the shadow, embodied sovereignty. You can walk the descent alone, or take the full arc back up with the gold.
One voice, no filler
No team. No ghostwriter. No recycled framework dressed up as something new. Every prompt in these workbooks is one I've sat with myself. If a page made it in, it's because it earned its keep — because it does the work it claims to do. That's the whole standard.