"Shadow work" is a term coined by psychologist Carl Jung to refer to the unseen parts of ourselves. To work with the shadow is to work with your subconscious. As 95% of your life is being driven by your subconscious, you can do specific work on this unknown or unseen part of yourself to shift anything in your life. Doing shadow work means digging down into your subconscious beliefs and thought patterns.  It means addressing stored emotions and trauma.  It means healing and integrating parts of yourself and your lives that you've ignored, stuffed down, or never even acknowledged are there. By doing this, you will begin to shift how you're thinking and feeling about, and reacting to, everything in your life, without consciously trying.  This is not mindset work, it's changing the way your brain and body react, and the frequency in your energy field. Your energetic field has a resting frequency where you naturally vibrate when you're not conscious of it.  This is the frequency that has the most affect on how you are manifesting.  Doing shadow work alters and raises this resting frequency and therefore shifts how and what you're creating in your life. So is "shadow work" just mindset work?  No, it's not.  To me, mindset work is bypassing the real work.  Mindset generally refers to conscious thought.  But as we only control 5% of our thoughts, just trying to think better doesn't work long term - you can't remember to do it most of the time! We need to shift in the subconscious to make real change.