Befriending Your Shadow - Creating Your Inner Cosplay Monster

Publication information:

Axinto, Jemarc. 2025. “Befriending Your Shadow - Creating Your Inner Cosplay Monster.” in Spirituality and the Arts. Harvard Divinity School: Program for the Evolution of Spirituality.

Abstract

Workshop: Jungian Psychology describes a Shadow that manifests as our unconscious ideas, desires, and weaknesses. It is the parts of the self that have been hidden away - only to arise in our most reactive states. Jemarc Axinto has developed a path to befriend the Shadow through Parts Work and Drama Therapy, empowering the individual to recognize, and disidentify with their wounded parts enough to create a dialogue, reduce shame, and deeply heal.


Presenter Biography

Jemarc Axinto is a Filipinx, Nonbinary, Trauma Recovery Coach and Wellness Consultant with a deep practice rooted in Buddhism and a profoundly theosophic view of spirituality and wellness. They have a decade of experience in trauma healing, and dedicate themselves to supporting others in healing and rewiring trauma at the intersection of science and spirituality.