In this week’s episode, Kat is joined by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi, author of The Shadow Path, to explore how shadow work can deepen your creative process and bring more honesty and depth into your art. Together, they discuss how the parts of ourselves we often avoid might hold the key to the work we’re truly meant to make.

Discover gentle, practical ways to meet your shadow through tarot, dream journaling, and ritual—and learn how to see this work as a safe retreat rather than a confrontation.

🌒 Highlights

• What shadow work is and what it isn’t

• How to meet and name your shadow with curiosity and compassion

• The creative power of what’s hidden: why your “shadow” often holds your best ideas

• A gentle 10-week structure for working through The Shadow Path

• How shadow work can help you reconnect with authenticity, depth, and creative flow

• One simple daily practice to begin integrating your shadow today

🔮 Resources Mentioned

• The Shadow Path by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi

• Tarot for Creativity and The Tarot Spreads Yearbook by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi

• Tarot for Change by Jessica Dore

• The Artist’s Way and The Listening Path by Julia Cameron

• The Artemisian — an educator and writer guiding inner work through archetypal studies and Jungian psychology, offering structured yet intuitive frameworks and tools for personal growth

• Jungian Online courses on self-portraiture and shadow work

• Upcoming Dark Shadow, Golden Shadow by Shannon of The Tarot Diagnosis

• Chelsey’s website: tarotforcreativity.com

• Substack: The Shuffle

• Instagram: @pipcardstarot

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