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Inner Shadow Work was created to help people perform inner work to improve their outer lives.

This website is not for everyone.

It requires openness and a natural curiosity for the hidden secrets of the unconscious mind.

My goal is to help you uncover these secrets with years of research along with some personal experiences.

When the ego and shadow are in agreement, they meet. You become fully present and Whole. Although you can’t become God, you can bear witness to Him as Him. Without attachment to past, future, or stories. Because everything is Perfect as it is, as You wanted it to be.

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My Story

My name is Rich and I’ve been enamored by the mysteries of Consciousness, Psychology, Spirituality, and why people think the way they do ever since I was a child.

In middle school I remember my AVID tutor asking me what I wanted to study in college and what I was interested in. My response—

“I want to know why people think the way that they do.”

“Oh, so you want to study psychology?”

No, not exactly. I wanted to understand what lies underneath and on top of our psychology. But I didn’t know how to tell her that at the time.

It wasn’t until my early to mid-twenties, when I confronted my own psychology, that I realized how much I yearned to learn “psycho-spirituality”.

My passion took off when I looked deeply into Carl Jung and Analytical Psychology. This is the approach to psychology that I fell in love with and helped me understand who I really am.

To give you some context of how well I didn’t know myself, I hadn’t ever taken a Psychology course until after receiving my BA.

Currently I am working towards my MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling so I can open up my own practice in the future.

Some of my credentials include, or will include:

  • Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Applied Economics, Minor in Finance
  • Associate of Arts (A.A.), Psychology
  • Associate of Arts (A.A.), Child to Adolescent Development
  • Associate of Arts (A.A.), Social & Behavioral Studies

It’s thanks to all of your purchases that I am able to get my AA degrees, relevant certifications, and continue to work towards my MA.

Thank you all for your support.

Research Material & Explanations

We all love our content creators out there who teach their pop psychology and insights on life. I want you to know that the material on Inner Shadow Work isn’t like that.

The content you find here on this website comes from academic research and accredited work done by professionals who I’ve had the pleasure to study.

The Inner Shadow Work website contains material that derives from professional fields, such as:

  • Analytical Psychology, Jungian Analysis
  • Logotherapy, Gestalt Therapy
  • Marriage & Family Therapy
  • Mental Health Counseling
  • Evolutionary Developmental Psychology
  • and so on

This material is what I’ve explored in my studies and experiences towards becoming a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC).

That said, to succeed on Google you need to make very marketable content that people are also looking for.

This means that I do include my own personality and anecdotal experiences to supplement with my research. It also means that I need to market education by leveraging popular culture.

What does this mean?

Analytical Psychology is marketed as “Shadow Work”, “Inner Child Work”, etc.

Attachment Theory is marketed as “Shadow Work for Relationships”, despite being most developed by later psychotherapists.

You will also see topics of religion, paganism, shamanism, animism, and other beliefs that are fundamental parts of our human psychological and spiritual history. I am not a very religious person, but each of these hold significance in the development and understanding of psychology, spirituality, and Consciousness.

You will also see me relating pseudo-spiritual topics to psychology, such as “Twin Flame”, “Lightworkers”, “Ancestral Trauma”. Each of these tie into psychological concepts, such as—Insecure Attachment, High Compassion/Politeness (The Big Five), Psychological Inheritance, etc.

I truly do my best to stay academically accurate while also satisfying the marketing factors within Google’s algorithm. Anything you find offensive or too “woo-woo”, I apologize and it’s largely due to marketability reasons.

This website is here to line all the pieces up and help people who are on a journey of self-discovery and who want to make more sense of the World.

My end goal with Inner Shadow Work is to (1) help me pay through school and to ultimately (2) create a program to help people beat addiction and (3) make a training system to teach “healthy optimism”.

Disclaimer: No Therapy or Diagnosis. The content provided is for educational, informational, and entertainment purposes only. Nothing in this content should be construed or assumed to constitute personal or professional consultation, supervision, advice, clinical instruction, clinical assessment, guidance, treatment, therapy, diagnosis, or to replace medical or mental health treatment. Nothing in this content creates a therapist-client relationship

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