About the Book
Our Shadow comes from what we've learned throughout our lives--our drives, habits, values, preferences, and needs--and comes flooding up from our nonconscious selves to our conscious selves, even before our conscious selves are aware, often resulting in responses that we otherwise might rather carefully consider. Personal development is largely growth of our Shadow selves--our adaptive unconscious where our deepest senses of self, morality, intimacy, vulnerability, and spirituality live. Shadow Light: Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness offers a wealth of research, ideas, and practices to help us grow our Shadow selves and accelerate our personal evolution. This is the companion write-in workbook to Shadow Light. In it, lessons from each chapter are organized into exercises with write-on lines for responses and reflections.
About the Author :
Dr. Keith Witt is a Licensed Psychologist, teacher, and author who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara, California, since 1973. Dr. Witt is the founder of The School of Love, at www.drkeithwitt.com, where he offers his School of Love Lecture Series, blogs, Therapist in the Wild webseries, and Integral Conversations audios and videos on health, love, relationship, sexuality, spirituality, development, and psychotherapy related topics. Keith's work has explored Integrally Informed Psychotherapy, intimacy, human development, spirituality, and sexuality yielding seven books (Integral Mindfulness, Waking Up, Sessions, The Attuned Family, The Gift of Shame, Shadow Light, and Shadow Light Workbook), three TEDx talks, and lectures and classes which he has taught across the U.S. Waking Up and its companion volume, Sessions, are two of the first texts on Integrally Informed Psychotherapy. His popular audio class, Loving Completely, is offered through Integral Life. Keith has conducted over sixty thousand therapy sessions, led many groups, and has been a contributor to Integral Life and the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. In presentations around the country-including Integral Life's What's Next, Integral Theories Conferences, and his ongoing series, The Shrink and the Pundit with Jeff Salzman-Keith speaks on love, intra and interpersonal relationships, and development from multiple perspectives, weaving neuroscience, Integral theory, wisdom traditions, and numerous forms of psychotherapy into a coherent cosmology of love and development. Dr. Witt contact info: website: drkeithwitt.com email: keith@drkeithwitt.com Office phone: 805-569-1102 Mailing address: P.O. Box 3097, Santa Barbara, CA. 93130
Review :
Shadow Light Workbook is a companion write-in journal to Shadow Light: Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness. The quotes below pertain to Shadow Light, Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness:
"Much has been written on the topic of Shadow and the unconscious, but no one has yet taken an Integral view of it. Here Keith Witt offers this comprehensive perspective and does so with his usual blend of joy, practicality, and wide-ranging experience as a psychotherapist. Read this book with care, and it will serve to propel your conscious self-awareness in all areas of your life." --Mark Forman, PhD, author, A Guide to Integral Psychotherapy: Complexity, Integration, and Spirituality in Practice
"Shadow Light: Illuminations at the Edge of Darkness is a marvelous book, thoroughly covering this fascinating topic of the human Shadow, and, unlike many approaches to our unconscious potential, pointing out--and explaining--both its constructive capacities as well as its destructive ones. And further, it offers straightforward exercises and practices for converting those destructive aspects into constructive talents--and does so across a broad range of human activities, from work to relationships to parenting. Highly recommended for professional and lay persons alike--absolutely superb offering!" --Ken Wilber, author, Integral Meditation: Mindfulness as a Way to Grow Up, Wake Up, and Show Up in Your Life
