Glossary of Terms

Psychobiological Integration
This is a healing process that helps bring the body, mind, and emotions back into balance. It supports people in working through trauma, reconnecting with their inner wisdom, and shifting patterns they may have inherited from family or culture.

Sometimes, parts of ourselves or our ancestors have been hurt, and those unresolved experiences live deep inside us—affecting how we think, feel, and act. By gently bringing this material into awareness, offering it care, and releasing it through the body, we create more space for clarity, contentment, capacity, love, and true freedom.

Shadow Work
Shadow work is the practice of turning toward the parts of ourselves—and our cultures—that we’ve pushed away, denied, or hidden. These may be personal wounds, emotions, desires, or fears—and they also include unconscious behaviors rooted in power, privilege, and survival.

Shadow is not just individual. It lives in systems, in whiteness, in ableism, in cultural appropriation, and in the ways people exploit or dominate others while pretending to be good, enlightened, or harmless. Much of what passes as “normal” in dominant culture is built on unacknowledged shadow.

Doing shadow work means choosing to see what has been made invisible: the pain we’ve inherited, the harm we’ve caused, the emptiness we try to fill. It means being honest about what we carry—without shame, and also without bypassing.

Shadow work never truly ends, but it does become more easeful. Over time, what was buried becomes witnessed, felt, and integrated. As we do this, we grow in capacity, accountability, humility, self-expression, and love.