Are You Afraid of Your Shadow Self?
What the hell is a shadow self?
There’s lots of talk these days about shadow work. It’s coming up with clients in their coaching sessions with me. It’s coming up when I do Angel card readings and it also seems to be a more normal topic of conversation in the circles I’m in. And I say it’s about fucking time.
People are waking up from this insanity that we’ve been living in. You see it’s been normal to survive in a cloud of darkness for a very long time. A mixture of anxiety, depression, worry, fear and self-doubt; the tell-tale cocktail that leads us to self-loathing that we keep hidden behind closed doors.
We isolate. We think we are the only ones who are feeling this way. We turn to addiction to cope. We numb ourselves with drugs, alcohol, food, sex, tv, over-spending, over-exercising, extreme religion, workaholism and the less noticeable one — busy-ness disease. We lie to ourselves and say our busy-ness is really productive-ness. It’s actually not. It’s a form of escapism. I know that was me before I got on a healing journey.
We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know
What does this have to do with the shadow self? The shadow self is the part of us that many have not faced. It’s the dark side of us. It’s our dark aspects. It’s our unhealed trauma…
