Honoring the Medicine of Wounds
Goldmining the Shadows is book five and the healing companion to Boundaries & Protection.
This book is written for readers who want to hold themselves accountable for harm their wounds are causing themselves and others. It is a call for transformation through self-learning and self-knowing.
We all experience hurts, especially early in development. Our pain causes us to adapt for emotional survival. Our behavioral responses to pain and suffering creates unconscious “shadows” that follow us to work and into relationships, creating sets of circumstances from the trajectory of our wounds.
Available from Now Row House Publishing
The tendency in western, colonial culture is to suppress or ignore pain, which only fuels our shadows’ needs for domination and/or victimization. This book encourages the reader to shift the perspective, and to see shadows as frightened inner children, desperate to even out the imbalances caused by our developmental adaptations.
Shadow work is an act of liberation—one with the potential to transform our lives and our culture for the better. Pain— individual and collective—contains valuable wisdom. With loving compassion and lived experience, Lighthorse guides readers to recognize, call out, and learn from our pain.
Composed of 52 short, digestible one-page chapters, Goldmining the Shadows is designed for picking up when compassionate truth is needed. It is meant to be carried as a companion and reread at different seasons of life, its many facets revealed over time.
What people are saying:
“Pixie cracks the door open to the shadowy places that exist within our hearts, and then allows us to walk through it with her steady hand as our guide. A beautiful, thoughtful read for the world today.” –Missy Rhysing, Ritualcravt
“Part road map, part manual, I stood up from my seat a completely different person after reading, much to my fiercely protective shadow’s chagrin. Pixie writes that “soul work flourishes in safe company” and auspiciously provides an unquestionably safe place to begin so that we can stop harming ourselves and others with our woundedness.” –Anne Carmack, Writer & Artist
“This book is for the tired ones, the serious ones, the desperate ones, the hopeful ones—tired of running from our own shadows and the monstrous shadows of history and society, serious about doing the gutsy work of personal and collective healing, desperate enough to not flinch at Pixie’s hard-hitting and life-giving words, and hopeful enough to follow the pathway out of the shadows and into true freedom, no matter the cost. Practical, imaginative and deeply personal — this book will help you examine the shadows in every crack and crevice of your gorgeous and painful life. What an illuminating gift to us all!” – Christena Cleveland, Ph.D., author, activist, and director of the Center for Justice + Renewal
“I was immediately drawn in, I could feel my soul nodding, saying, “yes, here it is.” I have done shadow work in group settings. It was powerful, but it was also overwhelming for me. I am very private and I felt too over-exposed. I’ve seen others shut-down in those sorts of settings as well. I believe we need to feel safe in order to go as deep as possible into our shadow. I love that Pixie is providing guidance and practices for us to use to go at our own pace in our own space. This work can’t all be done in private. We have too much collective work to get done, but I do think offering people the opportunity to begin their journey into shadow work in this accessible way is going to make the collective work all the more possible.” –Amanda Stuermer, World Muse Founder
“Pixie Lighthorse provides a tangible roadmap to diving deep into shadow work with her latest book, Goldmining the Shadows. This book is an invaluable resource for transformational self-healing. Pixie has created an access point and framework for helping unearth and tend to the parts of ourselves that prevent us from experiencing a greater sense of belonging, connection and liberation. Goldmining the Shadows is a must read!” –Dr. Kate Smith
Social Media: Share your journey! Tag @pixielighthorse and use #goldminingtheshadows to add your image to the gallery at Instagram.
Interviews, Podcasts, Speaking Engagements & Book Events: Please send an email to info@pixielighthorse.com with inquiries for scheduling.