Mar 1, 2019
In this Best of DFB, we revisit Nikki Silvestri. Nikki is a new Mama and speaker with equal parts vulnerability and razor-sharp analysis. She is the Founder of Soil and Shadow and working to create system change while improving relationships between communities. In this conversation we get into:
- Why our good ideas don’t flourish because we don’t know how to work well together
- How your change-making work can reflect abundance and not scarcity
- How the process of shadow work makes you face your own worst nightmares
- How once your life has changed you realize there isn’t that much to be afraid of
- What it takes to ask yourself new questions
- How the seed of shadow work is allowing opposites to exist simultaneously that seem irreconcilable
- Why we are obsessed with reconciliation as a society
- Why suffering is a part of life and how you have to accept it as such
- Why connection is the seed of everything, and how it creates possibilities that didn’t exist before
- How boundaries enable you to do your own work
- How to welcome the shadow parts of yourself back home
- How shadow work makes you a better leader by allowing you to see all of yourself
- Why we need to speak to people in a language they understand when approaching shadow work
- How anything you are attracted to or repulsed by is your shadow at play
- How you can find yourself in the projection of your shadow
- Why learning to properly integrate shadow work is so important
- Discernment is how to stay on the good side of shadow work
- Why it’s necessary to uncover limiting beliefs
- How being a mother shows you where you are managing your experiencing vs just experiencing
- Why you are not the extreme versions of yourself
- How practicing whole traditions leads to wholeness
Links
- CLOSED // Go deep on a 3-month journey into shadow work with Nikki Silvestri at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/shadowlab // Applications close July 2, 2018
- Connect with Nikki and her Soil and Shadow offerings through her website at http://www.nikkisilvestri.com/
- Follow Nikki on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nikki_silvestri/