Nikki Silvestri is a new Mama and speaker with equal parts vulnerability and razor-sharp analysis. She is the Founder of Soil and Shadow and working to create system change while improving relationships between communities. In this conversation we get into:

Why our good ideas don’t flourish because we don’t know how to work well together

How your change-making work can reflect abundance and not scarcity

How the process of shadow work makes you face your own worst nightmares

How once your life has changed you realize there isn’t that much to be afraid of

What it takes to ask yourself new questions

How the seed of shadow work is allowing opposites to exist simultaneously that seem irreconcilable

Why we are obsessed with reconciliation as a society

Why suffering is a part of life and how you have to accept it as such

Why connection is the seed of everything, and how it creates possibilities that didn’t exist before

How boundaries enable you to do your own work

How to welcome the shadow parts of yourself back home

How shadow work makes you a better leader by allowing you to see all of yourself

Why we need to speak to people in a language they understand when approaching shadow work

How anything you are attracted to or repulsed by is your shadow at play

How you can find yourself in the projection of your shadow

Why learning to properly integrate shadow work is so important

Discernment is how to stay on the good side of shadow work

Why it’s necessary to uncover limiting beliefs

How being a mother shows you where you are managing your experiencing vs just experiencing

Why you are not the extreme versions of yourself

How practising whole traditions leads to wholeness

Links

Go deep on a 3-month journey into shadow work with Nikki Silvestri at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/shadowlab // Applications close July 2, 2018

Connect with Nikki and her Soil and Shadow offerings through her website at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/

Follow Nikki on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri/