Episode 015 - Jungian Shadow Work and Your Recovery: The Iceberg Below the Surface
Mental Mike Recovery Hub by Mental Mike
Episode notes
Week 15 marks the ultimate integration - turning inward to examine your relationship with psyche, body, and spirit. You're moving from learning recovery vocabulary to speaking the language fluently.
Mental Mike reveals addiction's deepest truth through Carl Jung: "Addiction is the equivalent on a low level of the spiritual thirst of our being for wholeness." This isn't a behavioral problem; it's a spiritual crisis, an energetic imbalance manifesting as substance use.
Your psyche is an iceberg. The conscious tip (willpower, to-do lists) is tiny. The massive unconscious below holds the shadow, everything you've judged, rejected, or denied. These disowned parts cluster into complexes that hijack your conscious intentions when triggered. This episode teaches you to turn toward the shadow with radical curiosity rather than push it down. ...