Consider your most undesirable attributes: the feelings, urges or reactions you don’t want to reveal in front of other people. These are traits that you might try to keep hidden, even from yourself. Unless you’re filling out the Shadow Work Journal, a workbook that recently went viral on TikTok and intentionally pushes you to face your dark side.
Joshua Terhune, a licensed mental health counselor from Indiana, encountered the journal on his For You Page. “The first couple of times I just ignored it, but it kept showing up,” Terhune said. There are currently more than 1bn views on Shadow Work Journal videos. In posts with hundreds of thousands of likes, people describe immediately crying while doing the exercises.
