Day 1
Notice
Morning, afternoon, evening. You map a trigger, name the age it carries, and thank the protector that installed it.
by Martina Sachs
Two-Day Introduction to Shadow Work
A practical two-day guide with reflection exercises. Written from lived experience — not as a prescription, as an invitation.
If this resonates with you, the 12-page PDF is $13 on Ko-fi. PayPal is there. They email you the file.
The question
What is the shadow, and how do we begin?
Not with a personality overhaul. With a journal, two quiet days, and the courage to look at what you have been managing instead of meeting.
The work
What you hide does not disappear. It waits.
The shadow is not a moral failure. It is the warehouse of what you disowned in order to belong — anger stored because it was unsafe, tenderness stored because it was inconvenient, desire stored because it was too much.
It leaks as the reaction larger than the moment. As the person you cannot stand. As the pattern you swore you had outgrown.
These twelve pages will not empty the warehouse. They will show you the door, and walk with you through the first two days.
Original charcoal · Martina Sachs
Inside the pages
Two days. Six sittings. A beginning you can actually finish.
Day 2
Relate
You retrieve a projection, sit down with one part for an honest conversation, and choose a slightly different fork.
20–40 minutes
Twice a day. No marathon. No performance of insight.
Write by hand
Lined pages in the guide. Your words stay on your device.
12 pages
Short enough to finish. Honest enough to matter.
This is for you if
- You keep meeting the same pattern in a new room.
- You are tired of becoming a “better” person.
- You want a beginning, not a 30-day performance.
- You can sit with discomfort without needing a slogan.
This is not
- Therapy, diagnosis, or a substitute for either.
- A promise of overnight change.
- A hall pass to act out what you find.
- Work to do if you are in acute crisis — get a human first.
The author
Written the way it was lived.
Martina Sachs is an author and visual artist. Awakening from Shadows grew out of her own hardship — the kind that forces a person to look inward or keep repeating the same painful patterns. She chose to look inward. The book, the charcoal, and this two-day beginning are the fruit of that choice.
Art and writing are both ways of making the invisible visible.About Martina
Awakening from Shadows
Martina Sachs
The longer companion
Awakening from Shadows
The book explores the terrain between who we present to the world and who we are beneath it — how patterns form, how they go invisible, and how they can be understood, challenged, and released. This two-day guide is the doorway. The book is the house.
The offering
Twelve pages. Thirteen dollars.
A gentle two-day introduction to shadow work — simple guidance, reflection questions, and exercises. You pay on Ko-fi (PayPal is there). They send the PDF to your email as soon as you pay.
Digital download · yours to keep · PayPal via Ko-fi
Five films, ready to post
Films for Instagram and TikTok.
Vertical, ten seconds, captions written. Watch them, copy the words, and post.
Watch the filmsQuestions, answered quietly.
Two days. Six sittings of twenty to forty minutes. You can stretch it if a sitting needs more air — this is not a race.
No. The two-day guide is a complete beginning. Awakening from Shadows is the longer companion if you want to go further.
No. It is personal inquiry. If old material feels unmanageable, please work with a qualified therapist. If you are in crisis, contact local emergency services or 988.
On Ko-fi, for $13. PayPal is one of the ways Ko-fi takes the money. This site does not charge your card.
Ko-fi emails the 12-page file as soon as the payment goes through. You can also find it later under your Ko-fi purchases.
Letters, when there is news.
Occasional notes on the work, the art, and the book. No noise.