Are you in the void — that confusing, restless space where the old you has dissolved but the new version hasn’t fully formed yet? 🌑✨
In this video, I share my personal experience with the liminal space of shadow work, also known in Jungian psychology and alchemy as the negredo — the stage of psychological death and rebirth. We’ll talk about what it feels like to be in the void, why it shows up during spiritual growth, and how to navigate it without forcing premature action.
You’ll learn:
What the void/liminal space actually is in shadow work
How dreams (like death imagery, jail, or grief themes) signal ego death and identity shifts
Why trying to “manifest your way out” can keep you stuck longer
Practical ways to navigate uncertainty, integrate change, and honor this sacred pause
How to reframe the void as fertile ground for your next evolution
If you’ve been feeling flat, uninspired, or questioning your direction, you might be in the void right now. This isn’t a breakdown — it’s a sacred integration phase that can transform you when you surrender instead of resist.
💡 Whether you’re on a shadow work journey, exploring Jungian psychology, or just trying to make sense of an identity shift, this video will give you clarity and tools to sit with the unknown.

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

This is the story I haven’t fully told until now. In this episode, I share the truth about my spiritual awakening — how it looked like psychosis, triggered a deep identity crisis, and led me into a full-blown shadow descent. From kundalini surges and dark feminine archetypes to trauma flashbacks, psychic downloads, and a trip to the psych ward… this was my initiation.

We talk spiritual emergency, mental health, shame, martyr complexes, plant consciousness, feminine mysticism, and reclaiming your sexual and intuitive gifts after a complete ego death. If you’ve ever felt “crazy” during your awakening — this one's for you. You’re not alone, and you’re not broken.

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About Jaclyn Proper:

Jaclyn is a Jungian Depth Coach dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

Thank you for listening!

So… what actually happens when you commit to shadow work for real?

In this episode, I reflect on the last 5 years of doing deep unconscious work — the kind that changes your entire life, nervous system, sexuality, body, intuition, relationships… all of it. This isn’t some fluffy “just journal and light a candle” version of healing. This is what it actually looks like to unravel your trauma, identity, addictions, and ego defenses and rebuild from the soul up.

I talk about how becoming a dominatrix unexpectedly saved my life, what a Kundalini awakening did to my brain, and why shadow work gave me better orgasms. I also share how I finally stopped self-abandoning, started trusting myself, and built a life I couldn’t even imagine five years ago.

If you’re in the thick of it, this episode is for you. There is another side — and it’s better than your ego can dream up.

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tags: shadow work, Jungian coaching, spiritual awakening, sexual shadow work, trauma healing, nervous system healing, parts work, somatic healing, inner child healing, authentic self, transformation journey, spiritual psychosis, kink and shadow, third eye awakening

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

In this episode, we explore the father archetype and father complex—and how your relationship to this energy impacts your confidence, ambition, leadership, and sense of inner authority.

Whether you had an absent father, a tyrannical father, or a passive one, these early dynamics shape how you relate to power, responsibility, and success as an adult. We dive into the psychological and somatic roots of the father wound, what it means to build an inner father, and how shadow work can help you heal and reclaim your personal sovereignty.

I also share how conscious BDSM dynamics can become a powerful, reparative space to rewire your relationship to structure, protection, and empowered masculine energy.

✅ You’ll learn:
– What the father archetype actually represents (it’s not about gender)
– How a wounded or absent father impacts your adult identity
– The difference between tyrannical, absent, and collapsed father energy
– How to rebuild your inner father through shadow work & nervous system healing
– Why queer and nontraditional parenting still operate within these archetypes
– How BDSM and D/s dynamics can be used to consciously reparent and rewire your psyche

🌀 Whether you're exploring masculine energy, reparenting yourself, or deepening your shadow work practice—this episode gives you a powerful map.

#fatherwound #shadowwork #innerchildhealing #jungianpsychology #archetypes #fathercomplex #masculinearchetypes #somatichealing #reparenting #bdsmhealing #subconsciousmind #traumarecovery

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

Why does growing up feel like punishment? Why do creatives, rebels, and free spirits often sabotage stability or crave constant freedom? In this episode, we explore the eternal child archetype (also known as the puer/puella complex in Jungian psychology) and how it shows up in modern life, sexuality, and your relationship with power.

Whether you're queer, kinky, neurodivergent, or just deeply allergic to conformity, this one's for you.

🔍 We’ll cover:

• The shadow side of freedom & magical thinking
• Why adulting feels triggering to the nervous system
• Reparenting the inner child with discipline + devotion
• How the eternal child archetype can sabotage intimacy, goals, and growth
• Kink & BDSM as tools to heal the inner child (and avoid unconscious chaos)

👄 If you’ve ever identified with being the fun one, the rebel, the muse, the lost boy/girl/enby—or if you’ve been stuck manifesting but not moving—this episode is your mirror.

🔔 Like, subscribe, and share if this hit home. It helps this channel reach more unconventional souls doing the deep work.

#eternalchild #jungianpsychology #shadowwork #spiritualshadowwork #adultingishard #innerchildhealing #puercomplex #kinkandhealing #queershadowwork #disciplinevsfreedom #neurodivergenthealing

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

Ever feel terrified of being wrong, looking stupid, or not knowing enough? You’re not alone. This shadow is sneaky AF and can show up as perfectionism, overachievement, avoidance, shutdown, or even aggression—especially in sex, relationships, and creative expression. 

In this episode, I unpack:

What the incompetence shadow really is and where it comes from (especially if you were a gifted kid, overparented, or had trauma)
How this fear secretly runs the show in your adult life, career, and bedroom
How this shadow shows up in kink, shutdowns during intimacy, fawning, and know-it-all energy
The impact of trauma and loss of autonomy on self-trust and shame
Why vulnerability is the key to integration
⚡ Stay till the end for a guided active imagination visualization to help you integrate this shadow and reclaim your creativity, curiosity, and power.

Let’s make peace with the parts of ourselves we were taught to exile. Because when you reclaim the shadow of incompetence, you reclaim your ability to be seen, loved, and fully alive.

#jungianpsychology #shadowwork #sexualshadow #innerchild #incompetence #traumarecovery #neurodivergent #spiritualgrowth #jungiancoach #innerwork #depthpsychology #fawning #intimacyissues #reclaimyourpower #activeimagination

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

Unlock the truth about your relationship with your mother—and how it’s still shaping your nervous system, attachment style, and romantic life. In this episode, we explore the Mother Archetype through a Jungian lens, including the wounded forms like the Devouring Mother and Possessive Mother, and how these patterns affect intimacy, emotional safety, and your inner world.

I break down:

How your nervous system is wired in utero by your mother’s regulation (or dysregulation)
Why epigenetic trauma from your maternal lineage may still be running the show
How a mother wound can lead to avoidance, people-pleasing, or relationship sabotage
The difference between the Earth Mother and the Divine Mother archetype
A powerful guided active imagination to meet and transform your inner mother
This episode ends with an active imagination visualization to help you connect to the Divine Mother within, rewire your relationship to feminine presence, and reclaim self-nurturance, sovereignty, and emotional resilience.

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review and sharing it with someone who might benefit. 

About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

In this raw and revealing episode, I sit down with Bella Kitsune — a professional dominatrix, somatic therapist, conscious kink practitioner, and neurodivergent healer — to unpack the deep intersections of sex work, trauma healing, archetypes, somatics, and BDSM. 

💋 Topics we explore:

The healing potential of the mommy dom and soft dom archetypes
ADHD, autism, and dopamine-driven sexuality
How trauma shapes desire and kink
Sexual shame, body disconnect, and the somatic path back to pleasure
Archetypal embodiment and channeling energies like Aphrodite or Lilith in domination work
The dark side of forced feminization and unintegrated misogyny in clients
👀 Whether you're a curious kinkster, a fellow dom(me), or doing your own shadow work — this convo is 🔥, funny, and full of truth.

👉 Connect with Bella [https://linktr.ee/bellakitsune]

#SexWork #DommeLife #BDSM #NeurodivergentSexuality #ConsciousKink #SexualShadowWork #FeminineArchetypes #OnlyFansDomme #SomaticHealing #KinkAsHealing

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About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

Let’s talk about the part of your psyche that freaks out right before everything changes. In this episode, I’m breaking down ego resistance—what it is, why it shows up during shadow work (especially sexual shadow work), and how to tell the difference between genuine unreadiness vs your ego just being loud AF.

I share client stories (including one who almost missed his alignment session and went on to have life-changing results), personal examples from my own shadow work journey, and a real look at how resistance shows up: flakiness, confusion, life chaos, even physical symptoms. We cover:

💥 Why your ego clings to the familiar (even if it sucks)
💥 The top excuses people make when change is close
💥 The psychological defenses behind resistance
💥 How to actually push through sabotage with compassion and strategy
💥 How shadow work can trigger identity death—and rebirth

This is your sign that resistance doesn’t mean stop—it means you’re on the brink of something powerful.

Subscribe for more on shadow work, sexuality, and spiritual psychology.

#ShadowWork #SexualHealing #EgoResistance #JungianPsychology #REBORN #SexualShadow #SpiritualGrowth #SelfSabotage

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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review and sharing it with someone who might benefit. 

About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.

If you want to see the accompanying slides (not necessary but may be helpful) 

[you can watch the Youtube version here]

Welcome to this free shadow work workshop on sexuality, embodiment, and the unconscious mind. This is a deep-dive into sexual shadow work from a Jungian lens—so grab a notebook and get cozy. We’re going way beyond the sacral chakra and into the 8 layers of sexual shadow that influence your desires, identity, confidence, shame, and relationships.

Whether you’re kinky, queer, neurodivergent, or just tired of playing small—this is for you.

💥 In this episode:

What the sexual shadow actually is
Why your triggers and fantasies are sacred messages
How the chakras hold different aspects of sexual repression or expression
How patriarchal conditioning, purity culture, and early trauma shape desire
The connection between erotic energy and individuation (becoming your true self)
A guided sexual shadow visualization practice
And the truth about how to reclaim your erotic sovereignty


✨ Timestamps: 
0:00 → Intro & Tech Chaos (Thanks, Trickster) 
1:48 → About me / My Journey
4:32 →  How shadow is formed & integration process
15:56 → The 8 Layers of Sexual Shadow
20:14 → Self Assessment Exercises
36:00 →  Active Imagination Visualization Exercise
41:00 →  What is REBORN? + Promo code 


📌 Keywords:
sexual shadow work, Jungian shadow work, healing sexual shame, somatic shadow work, queer shadow integration, erotic alchemy, chakra healing, sexuality and trauma, kink and spirituality, healing through desire, feminine shadow, individuation

READY TO GO DEEPER? 🖤

[📖 FREE Workbook: Erotic Shadow Workbook]

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[🌹Be REBORN: An Erotic Shadow Journey]  

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Connect with Me:

• 📱 TikTok: @jaclynproper
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If you enjoyed this episode, please consider leaving a review and sharing it with someone who might benefit. 

About Jaclyn Proper: Jaclyn is a Jungian Coach & Underworld Priestess dedicated to helping you explore the depths of your psyche, embrace your true desires, and transform your life through conscious exploration and self-awareness. Join her as she breaks down barriers and opens up conversations about sexuality, creativity, and the journey towards wholeness.