For deep feelers · empaths · healers
Honest shadow work for deep feelers.
Calm conversations on healing, intuition and the inner work. Frameworks and real stories from people who have walked through their own dark and brought something back.
Hosted by Danina Dy · @daninasleeps
- Practice
- Shadow work · Jungian alchemy
- Accredited
- Points of You® Level 1
Inside a session
- IName the trigger
- IIMeet the part it protects
- IIIBring it home
Why I do this
I was told I was too sensitive.
As a child I was told I was too sensitive, and that life would be cruel to me because of it. Most empathic kids hear some version of that. No one held the space for me to understand what I was feeling, so I learned the long way, through trial and error and a lot of mistakes.
I didn't start this because it looked glamorous. I went through my own kind of hell inside my head, working through the same shadows I now write about here. Every framework I share began as a journal entry.
I'm sharing what life taught me. I don't have it all figured out. I share it because someone out there is in the same shadows right now and needs to hear that there is strength to be found in them.
“To explore the depths of our psyche, and find the soul’s true purpose for living.” My life's purpose
2014 · Where it started
Her name was ECLINA.
In 2014, I started writing under an alias, ECLINA, to protect my self-expression and my spirituality. Behind her name I could say what I felt and practice what I believed, freely. Many closeted practitioners do this when their path doesn't match the person the world already knows.
Looking back, ECLINA was my shadow. She held everything I wasn't ready to own as myself: my darkness, my trauma, my insecurities and my spirituality. The right conversations with the right people helped me bring her home. That's why The Soulful Alchemist exists.
Danina DyHost · The Soulful Alchemist Podcast
What shadow work is
It isn't about being dark.
Shadow work is the journey of understanding the parts of you that you learned to shame, hide, or believe aren't good enough. It asks you to look at what triggers you and why, instead of floating above it.
Awareness of why you feel what you feel, envy and anger included
Bringing what you find back into your body, relationships and ordinary days
Seeing other people's patterns and staying humble about it
Learning to trust your own inner voice
Feeling calm and accepting all the time
An exit from the hard parts of being human
Proof you're more evolved than anyone else
Finding someone to tell you what your life means
No single path is right, but there is truth in every path. So I bring the work to you through many lenses:
The Great Work
4 stages · lead into goldAlchemy, applied to a life.
Old alchemists described turning lead into gold in four stages. Jung read those stages as the process of individuation: becoming who you are, apart from family and collective expectation. It's the arc I see in every guest, and the one I'm still walking myself. It's the same arc as the hero's journey: a descent, a reckoning, and a return as the author of your own story.
Nigredo
The trigger. Envy, comparison, blame, the urge to play the victim. Healing starts here, and it was never comfortable.
Albedo
Awareness comes first. You stop asking how to make the feeling go away and start asking why it's there.
Citrinitas
You understand the shadow in others, too. “Why are they doing this to me?” becomes “What is this protecting them from?”
Rubedo
The work comes home with you, into your body, your relationships and your ordinary days. That's the gold.
Want to walk the four stages with me? The Great Work, a four-week guided program →
The Soulful Alchemist Podcast
The alchemists, in their own words.
Real people on how they turned their hardest seasons into something that empowers them. No victimizing, no villainizing.
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EP—01 · Oct 7, 2026
Twin Flames, Dream Work & Learning to Trust Your Path
with Maëlle (@oneiraya_), transpersonal relationship coach and dreamworker
Love that transforms you, what your dreams are trying to tell you, and two shadows that run quietly in so many of us: the Savior and the Protector.
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EP—02 · Oct 21, 2026
What Chronic Illness Taught Him About Rewriting His Story
with Vincent Bain (@vrbain), multimedia artist and writer
Diagnosed with a brain tumor ten days after his 35th birthday, Vincent talks about anger as a teacher and becoming the hero of a story he could rewrite.
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EP—03 · Nov 6, 2026
Talking to Spirit & Finding Peace in the Afterlife
with Tami Pitetti Sanders (@divinelensreadings), photo-based medium
A November special, for the season when the veil grows thin: asking departed loved ones for signs, and how to tell when it's really them.
Who this is for
// if you feel everythingIf you feel everything, you're in the right place.
The wounded empaths
The ones who were called too sensitive and are still learning that sensitivity is information, not a flaw.
The quiet practitioners
Anyone keeping their spirituality in a separate box because it doesn't fit the person everyone already knows.
The healers who help
Coaches, readers and space-holders who want to check whether their helping comes from purpose or from a wound.
Anyone in the middle of it
If you can't see the brighter days yet, a hand on your heart and a prayer is a fine place to start.
Work with me · Opening soon
Where to begin.
Start here · 4 weeks · Opening soon
The Great Work.
A four-week guided walk through the four stages of the work, one week for each. Every week you get my prompts, a short audio from me, and a simple practice to carry that stage into ordinary life. It's made for deep feelers, and it's something you can actually finish.
- Week 1NigredoThe trigger. Meeting what stirs envy, comparison and blame, and letting it speak.
- Week 2AlbedoAwareness. Asking why the feeling is there instead of how to make it go away.
- Week 3CitrinitasUnderstanding others. Seeing the shadow in the people around you, and staying humble.
- Week 4RubedoBringing it home, into your body, your relationships and your ordinary days.
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Join the waitlist
Free. Tell me what you're drawn to and what you're working through.
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A personal note from me
When it opens, I reach out to you myself. No mass emails.
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Founding details
First access, a founding price, and a say in how it's built.
The deeper next step · 5 founding spots
Shadow Work, One to One.
For the five people who want to go further after The Great Work. Six private sessions, one a week. Together we explore your inner psyche using Points of You®, a coaching method that uses photographs and words to reach what's hard to get to by thinking alone.
- Six private sessions, one a week, over six weeks
- Your inner psyche, explored with Points of You®
- Trace a trigger back to the part of you it protects
- Journaling prompts, parts work and dream reflection
- Carry what you find into your relationships and daily life
- Written reflections between sessions
Shadow work coaching supports self-awareness and personal growth. It isn't therapy or medical care, and it doesn't replace them. If you're working through trauma or a mental health crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional.
The waitlist
Be first through the door.
Tell me what you're drawn to. I'll reach out personally when it opens, with founding details. No mass emails.
From the journal · A taste of The Letters
Letters from the inner work.
Every letter I send also lives here in the journal. Read a few before you subscribe, and see if they speak to you.
FAQ
Before you join.
Is shadow work the same as therapy?
No. Shadow work coaching supports self-awareness and personal growth. It isn't therapy or medical care, and it doesn't replace them. If you're working through trauma or a mental health crisis, please reach out to a licensed professional.
What is Points of You®?
A coaching method that uses photographs and words to reach what's hard to get to by thinking alone. I'm a Points of You® Level 1 accredited coach, and it sits at the heart of the one-to-one sessions.
Do I need to be spiritual, or have done shadow work before?
No. You only need to be willing to look at what triggers you and why. I bring the work through many lenses, clinical, esoteric, physical, literary, artistic and mythic, so you can meet it where you are. If you want a gentle start, The Great Work is the place to begin.
What happens after I join the waitlist?
Nothing automatic. When the offering you picked opens, I'll reach out to you personally with founding details. No mass emails.
What does being a founding member mean?
First access, a founding price, and a say in how each offering is built.
Does joining the waitlist commit me to anything?
No. Joining is free and only tells me you're interested. You decide once you've seen the details.
Where can I get a feel for your work first?
Start with the podcast on YouTube or Spotify, or follow along on Instagram at @thesoulfulalchemist_.
We all mirror each other
Some of us trigger. Some of us inspire.
Either way, I hope that by seeing ourselves in one another, the healing begins. Come sit with us.
Above & Beyond,Danina Dy · @daninasleeps