Powerful Shadow Work Journaling Prompts You Need To Try

Shadow work journaling prompts are a great way to do shadow work when you don’t know where to start. They can guide you to look at and heal your shadow.

If you feel like right now is the time to do some shadow work, then these shadow work journaling prompts are the perfect way to start.

I find that we go through different stages where sometimes we look at our shadows and other times we work on manifesting our desires. It all depends on where you are.

Shadow work is great if you feel like you are stuck and not moving forward, are in need of healing, feel like something is off, getting easily triggered, don’t know which direction to move in next, or have been in a negative cycle for a while now.

All these indicate that it’s a good time to work on your shadow and once you do, you will find it much easier to move forward.

What Is Shadow Work?

You have both dark and light aspects to you. The ones that are dark are called your shadow. Most people hear this and think it’s something bad or something to be feared. However, it’s not.

Once you get into shadow work, you find it’s not that scary. It’s scarier to avoid doing shadow work than it is to actually do it.

Your shadows are those things that you deem as bad or negative that you want to push down inside of you and not look at. They might be things you feel shame about. They are the parts that you’d rather keep hidden from others and even from yourself. You think they shouldn’t be here and that you shouldn’t have them.

Shadow work is essentially looking at these aspects and healing them. It is bringing them to the light where they can be seen, felt, and healed.

Some Ways that Your Shadow May Show Up in Your Life Include:

• Jealousy
• Guilt
• Shame
• Judgment
• Frustration
• Hatred
• Anger
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Fear
• Insecurity
• Unworthiness
• Rage
• Revenge
• Blame
• Worry
• Doubt
• Overwhelm
• Irritation
• Frustration
• Pessimism
• Manipulation
• Defensiveness

Your shadow shows up as the lower emotions on the Abraham Hicks emotional vibrational scale. These emotions are dense and heavy and don’t feel good.

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Why Is It Important to Do Shadow Work?

Since there are light and dark aspects to you, it is important to integrate all of them. When you ignore or deny your shadow aspects, you are essentially ignoring a part of you.

Your shadow isn’t bad. It’s only the definition you give to it. If you think or say it’s bad, then it will be. But if you think and say that it is here to help you, then it will be that.

Shadow work helps you to clear out trauma from this lifetime or other lifetimes. When you hold onto trauma it can eat away at your soul and your physical body.

Shadow work also helps you with your triggers and how to deal with them. We all have things that bother us or trigger a reaction from us. When you do shadow work, you work on healing them.

They are bothering you for a reason and once you dig into why and heal them, then they will no longer bother you. Just look back at the things that once bothered you maybe even a year ago and now don’t; it’s because you’ve healed those triggers within you.

Someone triggering you has nothing to do with them and everything to do with you and your shadow.

Shadow Work Journaling Prompts

1. What is triggering you right now?
2. Where do you feel stuck?
3. What feels heavy?
4. What are you afraid to look at?
5. What do you feel guilty or ashamed of? How can you let it go and move past it?
6. What negative thoughts do you have in your head right now?
7. What are you afraid of other people finding out about you?
8. What do you regret from the past? Can you forgive yourself for it?
9. Where are you holding yourself back? Why are you holding yourself back?
10. What do you want to let go of, but you just can’t seem to move past it?
11. Are you afraid of losing something or someone? What would that mean about you if you lost it/them?
12. What do you tell yourself that you can’t do?
13. What’s your worst fear? What if it came true, would you still be ok?
14. What makes you feel bad when you go on social media? Why do you feel bad about it?
15. Where are you self-sabotaging yourself? Why are you doing this?
16. Are you doing unhealthy behaviors to stop yourself from feeling? Can you exchange the behavior and instead feel your emotions?
17. Has anyone told you that your behaviors were bad when you were growing up? Are you still holding onto that belief, and can you let it go now?
18. Where did you have to hide or shrink your light so that other people felt more comfortable?
19. Where do you not feel safe as a child? Have you found a way to feel safe now?
20. Are you judging yourself or others? What do you feel about yourself when you judge?
21. What do you feel insecure about? Is this true?
22. How do you act when you feel disappointed? Is there a more empowering way to handle it?
23. Do you feel unloved as an adult? Can you find a way to give this love to yourself?
24. What do you say to yourself when you experience failure?
25. Are you resentful of something that has happened in the past? Is there a way to forgive the people involved as well as forgive yourself?
26. What do you most dislike about yourself? Is this really true and can you find a way to accept this part of you?
27. Do you forgive people who have hurt you or hold onto it?
28. What frustrates you about your parents? Do you have similar traits?
29. What was the last thing you walked away from (job, relationship, etc.)? How did you feel about it then and how do you feel about it now?
30. If everything you’ve ever thought became public, how would you feel about it?
31. What have you not forgiven yourself for that needs to be released?
32. Who are you jealous of and why?
33. What is one of your most painful memories?

Final Thoughts – Shadow Work Journaling Prompts

Doing shadow work journaling prompts helps you to integrate your shadow and heal it. It takes any fear away from looking at your shadow aspects so that you can see it’s really not that scary. It is quite empowering to do shadow work healing.

Once you do shadow work journaling prompts you might temporarily feel the emotional intensity and have negative emotions come up. That is part of the process and it’s completely normal when you are healing anything. Bringing things into the light requires them to be seen and felt one more time before they are released.

However, after that, you feel much lighter. It feels as though you let go of a huge load that you were carrying. After doing shadow work journaling your shadow will begin to be healed and you will be lighter, freer, and happier.

~Meghan

(Pssst…this is totally something I teach more in-depth in my online course My Discovery Journal. If you are ready to transform your life from the inside out, I highly suggest you check it out here.)