What is Shadow Work?
Shadow work is the process of meeting the parts of you that you have avoided, rejected, or buried.
The parts shaped by shame, conditioning, and past experience. The patterns that sit in the unconscious and quietly run your life in the background.
The fears you cannot explain.
The reactions that feel bigger than the moment.
The blocks you keep hitting no matter how much “work” you do.
This is the shadow.
Until you meet these parts, they lead. They shape your relationships, your decisions, your capacity to hold what you say you want.
Shadow work brings those patterns into awareness.
It gives you clarity. It gives you choice.
You stop reacting from old programming and start responding from who you are now.
This is where alignment begins.
Not as an idea. Not as a concept.
As a lived experience.
MEET YOUR MENTOR
SHANNON VALLANCE
I didn’t arrive here through one path.
I built this through decades of being in the room with people. In business. In leadership. In the quiet, messy, unspoken places most people avoid.
For close to 20 years I worked in senior management, leading teams, working with people at every level. And no matter the role, I always ended up in the same place.
In the shadows.
The real conversations. The breakdowns behind closed doors. The patterns no one wanted to name.
That wasn’t training.
That was instinct.
What came next was training.
WE ARE HERE TO BUILD NEW WAYS
But back then, if you couldn’t mask, you were locked away or heavily medicated. So I learned to mask enough.
Creating confusion and MORE trauma in my young mind.
My high intelligence (in some areas only) and hyperawareness let me spot patterns and blend a little when I had to, but the cost was deep.
That same pattern spotting and environmental adaptation helped me succeed professionally.
I built a 20-year career helping others do exactly that: adapt, shift, survive, and then thrive.
But by the time I hit my third extreme burnout, I knew I couldn’t keep going. I loved my career, but I was operating in someone else's creation, someone else's rules.
you break out.
I am a shadow work therapist and I am here for you.
ENTER SHADOW WORK
For me it began with Reiki, level one became level 2 and that led into my master's...Twice. I had a thirst!! I studied counselling, hypnotherapy, NLP, somatics... Anything that would help me understand the human condition. I read books like they would run away if I didn't finish them in a day. I employed mentors and did apprenticeships with Sangomas...(South African Shaman). I learned plant medicine... It was endless…almost.
And at the end of it all...What stood out to me was the huge gap in spiritual circles. I was here to fill it. I launched my own business. BOOM!!
The patriarchy was alive and well in spiritual circles… We needed to refocus and clean this shit up!
Bring the Mother home to all of us. Through the work of the shadow.
The reclamation of what has been hidden, denied, and shamed.
Everyone hides, splinters, and creates shadows embedded in shame and pain. It's an inclusive human experience.
Every single one of us learns to deny parts of ourselves to fit inside this psychopathic society, one that’s ruled by patriarchy, hierarchy, and disconnection.
But I was never meant to be ruled, and if you are reading this, NEITHER WERE YOU!
I’ve always been a pattern breaker. School couldn’t hold me. Corporate life couldn’t contain me. Even the creative industries, where I had more freedom to be quirky, bold, and expressive, still asked me to work on their terms, on their watch.
So seven years ago, I stopped building other people’s dreams and started building mine. I launched my own business, developed my own systems, and brought everything I loved—mentoring, coaching, spirituality, heartfelt work, and real human development in a container of safety and left behind everything that didn't resonate.
Since then, I’ve been guiding people through the same process: coming home to their truth, stripping back the lies, and stepping fully into power. Holding them whilst they do the big work.
To deny nothing and embrace everything. Darkness and light. It's all part of the tapestry of you. And it's beautiful.
Now, I live a life most people dream of. I travel the world. I lead retreats. I have a wildly loving relationship, deep and held friendships, and a work life that is rich, free, and completely on my terms. I pick and choose who I work with. I move with a frequency that magnetises the incredible.
I'm not pretending my lifestyle for views; it's fucking real!! I created it through shadow work.
And I see it. The conditioning. The suppression. The cages wrapped in gold foil. I see the systems built to keep you small. And I’m not here to whisper sweet affirmations while you stay stuck inside them. I’m here to help you break out.
I am a shadow work therapist and I am here for you.
SHADOW AND FIRE
She is not the villain. She is the life force.
This is the first space where you get structured, reliable, weekly access to me. Not here and there. Not only when I have the bandwidth.
For years people have been asking for more regular support. Shadow and Fire is the answer to all of that
1:1 Mentoring
These aren’t holidays. They’re initiations.
Seven-day sacred containers where shadow work meets cultural reverence. Held in powerful locations across the world, each retreat blends ceremony, deep inner work, and cultural immersion—honoring the land, its ancestors, and your truth. Rest. Rise. Remember who you are.
Therapy Sessions
A Shadow Work Session is an initiation into the hidden self. Across each session we move through layers of talk therapy and energetic work to access the parts of you that have been buried or denied.
Wednesdays 10am-1pm-7pm
Thursdays 8am-11am 5pm, Friday 8am-11am 5pm
RETREATS
Global Locations
You’ll walk alongside the dark goddesses and the Ancient Mother as we move through shadow, ceremony, and celebration of the land.
shadow work
SHADOW AND FIRE
1:1 Mentoring
RETREATS
She is not the villain. She is the life force.
This is the first space where you get structured, reliable, weekly access to me. Not here and there. Not only when I have the bandwidth.
For years people have been asking for more regular support. Shadow and Fire is the answer to all of that
Mentor Sessions
A Shadow Work Session is an invite into the hidden self. Across each session we move through layers of talk therapy and energetic work to access the parts of you that have been buried or denied.
Global Locations
You’ll walk alongside the dark goddesses and the Ancient Mother as we move through shadow, ceremony, and celebration of the land.
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