Your greatest fears are where you’ll find

Your Greatest Freedom

The areas of your life where you feel stuck, frustrated, frozen, guilty or shamed, unsatisfied, blocked, anxious, angry, broken, or not good enough...

These are the places calling for the light of your awareness.

Instead of bracing against life, hoping the pain will disappear, we can face the darkness and transform.

We can reclaim our power. Dissolve the old structures. Embody our whole selves. And create the life that we desire.

There is an ancient truth woven through every tradition of transformation, every myth of descent and return, every story of someone who had to enter the dark forest before they could find their way home:

The treasure you seek is hidden in the cave you most fear to enter.

If you've found your way here, you stand at the edge of a threshold right now, and some part of you knows that the way forward is through.

There's Gold in Your Darkness

What if your deepest wounds held your greatest medicine?

What if the parts of yourself you've exiled – the rage, the grief, the wild hunger – were actually the keys to your liberation?

This is shadow work: the facing of the depths of the unknown within us, the kind of transformation that changes everything, like the metamorphosis that turns a caterpillar into a butterfly.

This is the magic that can make us formidable if only we learn how to wield it.

You have carried this power all along, in fragments. This is where we gather it back together.

You are being invited into your own sacred descent...

Not to be swallowed by the darkness, but to retrieve what has been waiting there for you all along: the lost fragments of your power, the exiled parts of your wholeness, the wild magic you abandoned in order to be acceptable, lovable, safe.

Your shadow isn't your enemy. It's your buried treasure and it holds the key to unlocking your abundance, satisfaction and joy.

Is This Journey for You?

This work calls to those who:

• Are going through significant life changes
• Want to heal patterns, not just understand them
• Are tired of quick fixes for soul-deep longings
• Know there's more depth to uncover within

Perhaps you feel stuck and hope for change, but are going through the motions, increasingly disconnected from your own life.

Or perhaps overwhelming change has already crashed in on you. A relationship has ended. Work no longer makes sense. Who you thought you were is dissolving, and you're not sure what comes next.

Either way, you know something has to shift. The strategies that got you this far have reached their expiry date.

What opens up...

When you stop abandoning the difficult parts of yourself, something remarkable happens. You develop a kind of inner stability that external circumstances can't shake. You begin to trust yourself again. You trust life again.

The sensitivity you've been told is "too much" becomes profound intuition. The intensity others couldn't handle becomes your creative fuel. The depths that scared people away become the source of your most meaningful connections.

You don't become someone new. You become who you've always been, underneath all the burdens: present, whole and satisfied.

You set yourself free to thrive in all the key areas of life...

Your Relationships Transform

• You create new harmonious and satisfyinf patterns in all your relationships and stop feeding into the old painful patterns
• You stop over-giving, disappearing, abandoning yourself and tolerating treatment that doesn't honour you
• You attract people into your life who honour you and meet your wholeness
• Your presence invites others to drop their masks, because you're no longer afraid of your own power.

Abundance Flows More Freely

• Scarcity beliefs and struggle dissolve as you face and release them and open up to abundance
• Shame and guilt around wanting loses its power as you learn to alchemise it
• Receiving becomes easeful and joyful as you open up to more abundance
• Opportunities you once deflected become visible, you feel empowered to take action and money comes more easily.
• You'll illuminate the shadow material that has been blocking the flow of good things toward you, and allow yourself to thrive.

You Finally Put Down The Weight

• The grief you never fully grieved finally moves through you
• The anger you were never allowed to express finds release
• The shame that has quietly run your life loosens its grip
• The heaviness lifts, the fog clears

Your Body Becomes Your Home

• The chronic tension softens
• The knot in your stomach loosens
• Your breath deepens
• You stop overriding your body and start inhabiting it
• Pleasure and aliveness become your new normal.

Peace Becomes Your Resting Place

• The low hum of anxiety quietens
• The bracing and vigilance ease
• You develop an inner ground that external circumstances cannot shake
• The world stops feeling so threatening
• Peace becomes something you carry with you, not something you chase.

Your Creative Power Returns

• The blocks dissolve
• The procrastination loses its grip
• Imposter feelings reveal themselves as lost parts to welcome home, not truths to believe
• The intensity that was "too much" becomes creative fire
• You finally move forward on what matters most

You Remember Who You Actually Are

• The conditioning falls away
• The masks you learned to wear become unnecessary
• You discover your authentic self, underneath, your gifts and deepest magic

You open up to being present, whole, and satisfied.

A Guide Who Knows the Territory

I'm Iris, author of over 20 magical books of both fiction and non-fiction that all delve into the transformative power of the psyche. I have a PhD in Anthropology and have trained in over 10 different spiritual and healing modalities, but shadow work has been my most sacred intuitive path.

I was introduced to shadow work when I was fifteen years old by my counsellor Fiona, a Celtic shamanist. Since then, over the past twenty-five years, I've been doing the deep work of transformation that has led me into a life of magic, awe and wonder.

I created this course because I've walked this path myself. I know what it's like when life cracks you open. When the comfortable stories fall apart. When you're caught between who you've been and who you're becoming.

I also know what's possible when you stop running from your depths. When you discover that your shadows aren't enemies to defeat, but parts of yourself waiting to come home.

Through gentle and powerful practices, you'll learn to:

• Navigate major life transitions with grace and grounding
• Transform stuck patterns that have held you back for years
• Access the wisdom your body has been trying to tell you
• Harness the power of your emotions
• Make peace with uncertainty and change
• Emerge more authentic and alive than ever

Plus four potent guided meditations for the journey

This course draws on ancient wisdom, modern understandings, and years of personal shadow work experience to create a unique journey that honours both the sacred and the practical.

If your soul says yes but your finances say no, you’re welcome to apply for a scholarship.

"Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift." - Mary Oliver