Rosa Lewis

sort of like energetic responses to that, which I didn't really have a bucket to put that in.

I was still in a very rational frame, but just these sort of like big, overwhelming, emotional, energetic kind of responses where I would hear something and it would be like a sort of transmission quality where I would kind of suddenly be in a very different experience.

And then, you know, sort of like synchronicities were showing up and things like that.

And then I did a...

group shadow work therapy retreat.

And essentially it's like a very embodied therapeutic modality that is about opening these different archetypes and letting these modes and ways of being flow through you more fully.

And my process was around opening up the lava archetype, so deeper level of feeling.

And when that happened,

It really, really transformed how I experienced the world for one.

I was like, I'm allowed to feel these things I'm normally just repressing with more of letting that repression out.

Yeah, just more archetypal, imaginal, energetic, emotional things started to sort of come into reality.

And then the more shadow work I did and the more I later started meditation, the more meditation I did, the more sort of these altered states and different parts of experience started coming in.

Yeah, shadow work, it's Jungian depth psychology.

And then specifically the type of shadow work I did is a specific type made by a man called Cliff Barry, but it's built on Jung's work.

And it's really that essentially there are parts of you that either from birth or through your childhood or also young adulthood, it's like,

you will have learned that there are certain aspects of you that are not welcome or certain parts of you that are not.

Certain emotional responses or, so the type of shadow work that I've done with berries, it has four archetypes.

So lover, warrior, magician, and sovereign lover is really about emotions and feeling and that sort of realm.

Whereas magician is a lot more about kind of like thinking and seeing options and being rational and

being able to perceive what's going on.