A Two-Day Intensive Shadow Work Experience
Understanding
Why You Do
What You Do
Love is Louder Than Fear
Learn what is secretly controlling your life — or keep repeating patterns you cannot understand.
What you do not uncover may continue to control you.
01Recognize the Pattern
You Know Something
Needs to Change
Maybe you put everyone else first. You give more than you receive. You feel guilty when you say no. You keep choosing the same kind of relationship.
- You overwork, overthink, and overdo everything.
- You feel responsible for everyone else’s happiness.
- You react in ways you do not understand.
- You know better — but still repeat the same behavior.
- You feel lost even when your life looks successful.
Knowing better is not enough. The behavior is not the real problem. The hidden pattern underneath it is.
I never realized what was holding me back. Now I can finally see what’s been standing in my way.
The Solution Is
Not Trying Harder
You do not need another motivational speech. You need to understand where the pattern began, what it once protected you from, why your mind keeps repeating it, and who you could become without it.
That is the work we will do together.
02Understand Yourself
What Is the Shadow?
The shadow contains the parts of yourself you learned to hide so you could feel safe, loved, or accepted. It may include anger, jealousy, shame, fear, control, and resentment.
But it may also hold your confidence, ambition, tenderness, creativity, intuition, sensuality, and voice.
These parts did not disappear. They went underground — and may now influence your emotions, choices, and relationships without your awareness.
Shadow work brings those hidden parts into the light. Not to judge them. Not to shame them. To understand them.
The Formula
Hidden Pain Creates Protective Patterns
Something happens to you. You learn what you must do to feel safe, needed, loved, or accepted. That response becomes a pattern. The pattern becomes so familiar that it begins to feel like your personality.
Awareness + Understanding + Implementation = Change
- Awareness See the pattern.
- Understanding Discover why it began.
- Implementation Practice a new response.
You are not your pattern. But until you understand it, it may continue making choices for you.
03The Workshop
The Two-Day
Experience
Both days combine education with immediate implementation.
Day One
Education and Implementation
Learn about shadow work, identify hidden patterns, and apply what you learn through guided reflection and personal work.
Day Two
Deeper Education and Implementation
Build on what you discovered and continue exploring the hidden motivations behind your thoughts, emotions, relationships, and choices.
Learn it. See it. Apply it.
04Begin the Change
What You Can
Begin Changing
- Understand emotional triggers and unconscious motivations
- Break generational cycles
- Set boundaries without guilt
- Reconnect with hidden strengths
- Stop repeating destructive patterns
- Improve relationships and reduce emotional reactivity
- Stop overgiving and over-caretaking
- Build self-acceptance and a life that feels like your own
This is not about becoming someone new. It is about understanding the person underneath the patterns.
05A Meaningful Investment
Invest in Yourself
People spend money every day on things they do not truly need. Clothes, electronics, gifts, and vacations may make us feel good temporarily. But the feeling fades — and the same patterns remain.
This holiday season, give something meaningful to yourself.
What you learn can serve you every time you recognize an old pattern, choose a healthier response, set a boundary, stop abandoning yourself, build a healthier relationship, or refuse to pass a generational cycle forward.
This Experience Is for You If
- You want to feel happier, more fulfilled, and more authentic.
- You feel lost, disconnected, or unsure of your purpose.
- You are grieving, divorcing, or moving through a major transition.
- You repeat the same relationship patterns.
- You struggle with boundaries or put everyone else first.
- You are ready to understand why you do what you do.
06What Comes With You
What You
Will Receive
- Two days of live shadow-work education and implementation
- Eight hours of interactive learning and personal application
- Tanya’s complete shadow-work workbook
- Breakfast on both workshop days
- Tools for recognizing patterns, triggers, and generational cycles
- A framework you can continue using after the workshop
The Workbook
Your registration includes a shadow-work workbook with exercises you can return to after the workshop.
This is not a workbook you use once. Return to it whenever you feel stuck, need to refresh what you learned, or recognize a new pattern in your life.
Optional
Six-Month
Integration
After the workshop, you may choose to join Tanya for a one-hour online group meeting once a month for six months. Continue applying what you learned, recognize new patterns, ask questions, work through challenges, stay accountable, and maintain momentum.
Two days begin the work. Six months help you continue it.
Optional and available for an additional fee. Details are provided to workshop participants.
07Your Guide
Why Tanya?
She does not simply tell you what you are doing. She helps you understand why you are doing it.
You May Have Already Seen Tanya on TikTok
Tanya Martinez-Cardenas is an award-winning psychotherapist, addiction specialist, couples therapist, and executive coach with a strong and growing TikTok following.
People are drawn to her keen ability to spot patterns others miss, explain the deeper reasons behind them, and help people understand how those patterns affect their lives and relationships.
She has made the study of the human mind her life’s work.
For more than a decade, Tanya has helped people navigate addiction, trauma, relationships, grief, neurodivergence, self-sabotage, identity, and generational patterns. She makes complex psychological ideas clear, relatable, and practical.
Tanya understands the mind like someone who has studied it her entire life, because she has. I call her a psychotherapist sensei.
I thought I knew myself pretty well. Then Tanya’s exercises revealed what I couldn’t see on my own.
This workshop didn’t just help me understand my patterns. It showed me why I created them, why I kept repeating them, and what I could finally do differently.
08Plan Your Visit
The Details
November 7–8, 2026
Austin, Texas
- Dates
- November 7–8, 2026
- Time
- 9:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. both days
- Location
- Unitive Counseling Wellness Center
3536 Bee Caves Road, Suite 310
Austin, Texas 78746 - Capacity
- 20 participants
- Included
- Breakfast both days and Tanya’s shadow-work workbook
- Optional
- One-hour online group monthly for six months — additional fee
The Investment
Investment
$2,250
The complete two-day experience, breakfast both days, all materials, and Tanya’s shadow-work workbook.
Only 20 People Will Be Accepted
An intimate, interactive experience. Registration closes when all 20 places are filled.
Reserve Your Spot
The Complete Workshop
$2,250
Pay the Full $2,250Klarna, Affirm, Afterpay, Pay Later, and major credit cards are available at checkout.
Can’t make November? Join the interest list for our December 12–13 morning workshop.
For cash, PayPal, PayPal Pay Later, or PayPal Credit, contact Tanya for a secure payment link.
tanya@unitivecounseling.com 512-888-7743
Your place is not reserved until your deposit or full payment is received.
The $250 reservation deposit is nonrefundable. If you pay in full and cancel in writing within three business days of booking, we will refund $2,000; the $250 deposit will be retained. After three business days, all payments are nonrefundable if you cancel or cannot attend. If we cancel the workshop, all payments will be refunded.