{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Terrible Creative","title":"In the Shadows- A creative deep dive into photography, shadow work, Carl Jung, and the emotional weight of what we avoid.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2908,"description":"A podcaster recently told me this show was \"really dark.\" So today, we're leaning into that darkness—because that seemed way more fun.\nThis episode is about shadow work. Not the Instagram version. The real version. The kind that happens when you realize the thing limiting your creative work isn't technical skill—it's the parts of yourself you've been hiding from.\nThrough David Bowie's near-destruction during his Thin White Duke era and his eventual disappearance to Berlin, we explore what it actually looks like to confront the buried parts of creative identity. Plus the story of a wedding photographer who missed the most important moment of the day—not because she wasn't skilled enough, but because she wasn't emotionally ready.\nThis isn't comfortable. It's not content-ready. But it might be exactly what your creative work needs to become whole.\n\nIn This Episode\nThe Australian Podcaster's Question - What happens when someone calls your work \"really dark\"\nBowie's Shadow Period - Los Angeles, 1975. Red peppers, milk, mountains of cocaine, and the creation of an \"emotionless Aryan superman\"\nThe Berlin Disappearance - How the world's biggest rock star chose to vanish and why that wasn't the failure—it was the beginning\nJung's Shadow Theory - The psychological framework that explains why we hide parts of ourselves (and how it shows up in creative work)\nThe Wedding Photographer's Dilemma - When professional distance becomes emotional cowardice\nThe Five Creative Shadow Territories - Where every creative person hides parts of themselves:\nThe Fear Shadow\nThe Identity Shadow\nThe Creative Shadow\nThe Power Shadow\nThe Authenticity Shadow\nPersonal Excavation - Why I hate shooting events (and what teenage depression has to do with adult creative limitations)\nThe Integration Process - Shadow dialogue, creative audits, and the difference between working around wounds versus working with them\n\nKey Takeaways\nThe shadow isn't your enemy—it's your undeveloped creative self\nWhat you...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/qsOnUwMbUF-PHJZ7RwOm0Uh1mXJoqDwCz1nHN0z7r7Q/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMTIy/MjM3Yzk2YTUzZDE5/ZjNiODE0Y2MxOTgz/MGRiNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}