Star Jones returns to the airwaves this week with a new show on Court TV (“Star Jones” M-F 3pm). You’ve probably gotten a glimpse of this ‘new Star’ – it’s a very different Star than the one we remember from her days on The View. This time around there’s less glam, less hair, less make up.

As an avid ‘Viewer’ since the show first went on the air, I have founed Star’s public battle with her ‘shadow self’ fascinating. And, it’s prompted me to want to find out more about what it is in each of us that works so hard to hide aspects of our personalities, aspects that, to others, may not be a big deal at all.

“The shadow is the part of us that we hide,” said Helaine Z. Harris, a Los Angeles-based marriage and family therapist who uses a blend of traditional and alternative techniques when working with clients. “It doesn’t go along with the image of how we see ourselves. It might be the part that we see as selfish or shallow or callous or controlling or mean. So this is relegated to the back part of us ‘we’re not like that’ we think.”