Unblocking Our Shadows with Tabea Zoé — Masculinity, Pretending, and the Parts We Hide (Part 1)

10/12/2025 1h 14min

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In today’s episode of The Deep-Rooted Self-Love Podcast, I sit down with one of my best friends, Tabea Zoé (@tabeazoe), for a deeply honest and totally fun conversation about shadow work. This is Part 1 of our two-part series.Zoé is a coach and spiritual mentor whose work weaves together spirit baby communication, shadow work, inner-child healing, and the delicate dance between feminine and masculine energetics. She brings a rare blend of clarity, depth, and honesty to every conversation.We each bring one of our shadows to the table: mine is the shame of being “masculine”, and Zoé’s is the shame of being “deceitful” or a “pretender”.This episode feels like sitting on the floor with your closest friend at midnight, speaking every truth that needs to be said — like a gentle light shining on the places you usually keep hidden.This episode is for anyone who feels like they need to hide parts of themselves from the world because they believe them not to be lovable; for the person that feels like they need to be anyone but their true imperfect self. Hopefully with the help of this episode you can meet those parts with softness, humor, and compassion.What unfolds is a raw, heartfelt journey into the parts of ourselves we learned were unlovable — and how bringing them into the light can be both healing and strangely liberating. We talk about our relationships with our mothers, where these shadows began, the tricky dynamics of intuition (and how we sometimes use it to control), pretending when relationships feel over, feeling deceived, and the fine line between twin flames and trauma bonds.We also wander through beauty standards, identity, inner safety, and what it really means to love the parts of yourself you learned to hide.Shadow work isn’t about perfection. It’s about integrating the pieces of you that have been pushed into the dark — so they stop running the show. And this episode is a beautiful, imperfect, laughter-filled example of just that.Part 2 continues next week with the rest of our conversation.~ CONNECT WITH ZOÉ ~The Crown CounsilTHE CREATIVE WATERS PODCASTHer website~ LINKS ~My website: ⁠⁠https://www.nora-ring.com/⁠⁠Instagram: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/nora.ring/⁠⁠TikTok: tiktok.com/@nora.ring~ PRODUCTS & FREE OFFERS ~1:1 Coaching Options⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Deep-Rooted Self-Love Hypnosis Library⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Core Needs In Dating Worksheet ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Free Self-Love Quiz I What Area In Your Life Needs More Self-Love? ⁠⁠