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Heal Anxiety by Facing Your Shadow By Dan Lupacchino, LMT I


’m going to let you in on a little secret. I’m a healer, and I have anxiety. That’s right. I didn’t really understand what


anxiety was, nor did I realize that I have been suffering from it my whole life until a few years ago when I experienced my fi rst panic attack.


My anxiety attacks are very physical. I can be perfectly fi ne one moment and then the next moment my heart pounds, I can’t breathe, and I become dizzy. I have chest pains, my arms and neck go numb and my mind begins to race down a spiraling tun- nel. It feels like I’m going to die, and I feel all alone. That is the worst part of my anxi- ety, feeling alone and trapped in its vicious cycle. Anxiety manifests differently for each person and can be categorized into various anxiety disorders.


Befriending Your Anxiety


Although millions of Americans have experienced anxiety disorders in their lifetimes, those who suffer from it are often ridiculed, met with disbelief and a general lack of understanding. Yet, unless you have experienced it yourself, it’s hard to truly grasp how terrible and debilitating it can be. Like with any mental health issue, one cannot simply be told, “Can’t you get over it?” or “Oh just take a chill pill, you’re fi ne.” These compassionless statements are never helpful and further instill the feeling that something is wrong with the person. This can often lead to more anxiety.


I’m not a doctor or clinician, but my


Know Your Soul Mission & Accomplish It


own healing journey with anxiety and the clients I support in their own process have lead me to a greater understanding. If we can look at it differently, we can begin to see that anxiety is actu- ally one of our greatest friends. It just requires that we face our shadow.


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How to Face Your Shadow


Humans are a not


one size fi ts all when it comes to wellness. My own path to wellness with anxiety has been a mix of holistic practices: talk therapy, plant-spirit medicine including ho- meopathy, herbal supple- ments, essential oils and various forms of body work (massage, Reiki, IET®, acupuncture, etc.) Each of these has been


a tremendous support in my healing with anxiety, by supporting me in facing my shadow.


Modern psychology and various mysti- cal and spiritual traditions all have the con- cept of a shadow, a secret part of us that for many is buried deep within, shunned and never acknowledged. For me the shadow is the part of ourselves that stores our deepest desires, fears, worries, negative thoughts, beliefs and emotions about ourselves, and the world around us. It is not necessarily what we would think of as our dark side, although it can certainly include aspects of that. Our shadow is the reservoir that holds everything in our life that we don’t want to face, keeping it in the dark. But, it lingers and is ever present like our physical shad- ows. It is my belief that when our shadow becomes too big, it starts to take control.


Essentially our nervous system


becomes overloaded and we short circuit, letting the shadow take the wheel. Our nervous systems have been wired to protect us from physical, emotional and mental trauma. It stores these experiences just like the shadow, so we can avoid the same ex- perience in the future. Yet, humans aren’t so good at processing effectively and just store these highly charged experiences away only to have them potentially surface later as anxiety.


Through my exploration in talk therapy


and receiving body work to help me get in touch with my emotions and core deep feelings, I began to understand and realize that my previous traumas and experience were controlling my life, and I was living in a way that kept me stuck. At one point, I thought my anxiety was going to kill me,


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