For Beginning
- What are three main goals you want to achieve with shadow work?
- What are my core values? Am I living by them?
- What do I feel in my body when I am scared or anxious?
- Do the people around me represent my values?
- In what situations am I most hard on myself?
- How would I describe myself? Is my description different from the one others would give?
- What makes me feel self-conscious?
- Do I tend toward self-sabotage?
- What was a time when I didn’t show myself self-compassion? Why?
- Do I truly love myself? What would more self-love feel like?
- What makes me feel guilty? Should I really feel this way, or did someone else impose the idea?
- What’s something I’m embarrassed to share?
- What are my boundaries in different parts of my life? Do others respect them?
- In what situations do I feel “less than”?
- Would I rate my self-perception as primarily positive or negative? Why?
- Do I generally have high self-esteem?
- What would it feel like to have more self-confidence?
- Do you struggle with showing yourself compassion? How does showing yourself compassion make you feel?
- When was the last time you truly gave yourself grace and forgave yourself for a mistake? What was the mistake?