Working Skillfully with Pain: How Shadow Work Facilitates Deep Healing

Mark Pirtle

December 3, 2025

Explore how shadow work can transform your understanding and experience of pain, turning it into a powerful catalyst for emotional and physical healing. Pain that is met with awareness rather than avoidance has an extraordinary capacity to reveal what needs to change.

The Rescuer's Reckoning

A coaching client who's spent her life giving to others has never learned how to prioritize herself. Shadow work is helping her uncover why saying no feels like abandonment.

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Stress Resilience

Events That Change Us

After the collapse of his business and a divorce, Dr. Mark Pirtle found healing through extended retreats—first at a Tibetan Buddhist monastery, then through plant medicine.

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Stress Resilience

Name It to Tame It: Using Third‑Person Self‑Talk to Build Self‑Compassion

Talking to yourself in the third person creates instant distance from swirling emotions. Mark shares how "Name It to Tame It" carried him through a rough divorce.

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Working Skillfully with Pain: How Shadow Work Facilitates Deep Healing

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