Self-Love Mini Series: How to Love & Integrate Your Shadow

07/08/20 • 29 min

Is there a story or narrative about yourself that keeps coming up despite you knowing it’s not helpful or true? We’ve spent the last few episodes tuning into the invalidation stories that have formed throughout our lives. Today, we’re going to look at how this has informed the way we view and love ourselves and how we can start shifting that.
Hint: It all starts with awareness.
In episode 4 of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, you’ll learn how to explore your shadow and your internal invalidation stories. You’ll learn how to shift your internal invalidation stories so you can peel away untrue narratives, reconnect to your inner wisdom, and cultivate self-love.
Remember, if you can see it, you can heal it.
Topics Discussed:
•What is my “shadow”?
•How do I love my shadow?
•How to release harmful narratives by shifting your internal stories
•A 10-minute guided meditation for connecting to your inner wisdom and giving yourself love, care, and validation
“Awareness and seeing is only the first step, not the end-all.” – Xandra Hawes
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About the Host:
Xandra Hawes, MA, LPC is a Contemplative Psychotherapist & Psychic-Medium in private practice, as well as the creator of Soul Essence Wellness Center. Using her background in Buddhist psychology as the foundation for teaching, Xandra helps sensitive and empathic people discover their spiritual gifts, learn transformative energy healing practices, and live with more confidence, self-trust and joy.

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Previous Episode

Self-Love Mini Series: Healing our Family Trauma

Many of us are afraid to look at our family systems and the different traumas we’ve experienced throughout our lives. When we investigate our family trauma, we may see where we were missed, ignored, rejected, or abused as a child. While that can feel scary, let’s choose love instead of fear.
“If we are unable to give love to ourselves consistently or we struggle often to feel enough, these difficulties are often linked to old invalidation stories that have been told to us or modeled to us by our family members.” – Xandra Hawes
By courageously looking at how your family has shaped you, you can lovingly acknowledge and heal your family trauma. You can find ways to let those stories go so you can create a new path that is built upon joy, peace, and radical self-love.
In episode 3 of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra helps you uncover where your first invalidation stories came from by exploring your family systems. She takes you through a beautiful, guided energy healing practice to release family trauma and return to self-love.
Topics Discussed:
· Ignorance isn’t bliss when it comes to trauma...
· How self-criticism is rooted in childhood and family trauma
· How family trauma shapes your reality and your ability to allow self-love to be your truth
· Preventing and stopping the cycle of intergenerational trauma
· A simple, effective meditation for releasing family trauma and boosting self-love

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Self-Love Mini Series: Your Unique Soul Essence

Oftentimes, what separates us from our soul essence, self-love, are memories of feeling hurt and abandoned. When we’re disconnected from self-love, we begin defining ourselves as unlovable, unworthy, or not enough. Do you resonate?
Over the past 4 episodes of our Self-Love Mini Series, you’ve been given the tools to feel worthy of love, joy, and healing. Today, you’ll be given the tool to connect to your unique soul essence frequency.
In this final episode of the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series, Xandra guides you in connecting even deeper to your core truth of self-love so you can discover your unique soul essence frequency.
Topics Discussed:
· What Xandra learned about herself and her emotions after healing from a breakup
· How radical self-love affects the body and mind
· The powerful role of self-trust in any self-love practice
· A healing guided meditation for connecting with your soul essence frequency
“The hardest part about aligning with self-love is that all the pieces that get in the way of seeing it clearly start to come up when we begin doing this work.” – Xandra Hawes
We sincerely hope you enjoyed the Soul Essence Podcast’s Self-Love Mini Series. If you did, we invite you to share it with a friend who would enjoy it, then share your experience with Xandra on Instagram or Facebook! Stay tuned for more episodes of Soul Essence to explore more topics rooted in psychology, spirituality, and energy healing.

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Read more on our blog: https://www.soulessencewellnesscenter.com/blog

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