Keila Shaheen

Shaheen holds a bachelor's degree in psychology and marketing and describes herself as a sound healer and a behavioural therapy practitioner; she is not a licensed therapist. She self-published The Shadow Work Journal through her company Zenfulnote in 2021, it spread on TikTok, and sales ran into the millions before Simon and Schuster picked it up. The prompts ask readers to identify and write about the parts of themselves they suppress. Clinicians have warned that unguided journaling into trauma can go badly for exactly the readers most drawn to it, and that is the objection the book does not answer.