Shadow Self: Demystifying Shadow Work as Self Work.
The shadow self is the side of us the ego subconsciously chooses to ignore in order to survive. This usually looks like ignoring working through trauma.
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This Is How We Heal Our Inner Child Wounds.
What would happen to these inner child wounds if we came together as a community with a ritualized reclamation ceremony for survivors?
Kayla, Karma and My Nights in Group Room 2.
I paused before I left the room. Kayla was sleeping peacefully, cocooned in multiple blankets in the den of the two armchairs.
Because It Mattered: A Celebration of Loss and Grief.
Instead of fighting back the debilitating sense of loss, celebrate your grief, because it shows you that you experienced something meaningful.
Toxic Nostalgia: Moving Past Expired Relationships
It may be saddening, but a relationship ending does not mean you have done anything wrong. Do not let toxic nostalgia tell you any different.
Like Actaeon, Seeing the Savagery of My Own Mind.
I had suppressed something seething beneath the surface, awaiting the tooth or claw of another’s edges, because I couldn’t see my own.
Morning After Thanksgiving: I Want to Stop Feeling Sorry.
And as I lay in bed on my back... the most miraculous thing happened. I wanted to stop feeling sorry. Forever. Once and for all.
I Am Here, and I Choose to See Myself as I Am.
My eyes long to see the unexpected and the unseen, like the lower half of the face of the beautiful masked woman I passed on my walk.
The Labyrinth: A Series of Art. {Part Twenty Two: Silent Prophecy}
Your Silent Prophecy which was once overlorded by the calamitous fiction of your very own head... can now breathe life into your being.
A Dance With Destiny: There Isn’t One Right Door.
She's back in the golden gallery. She dances in the reflections of light. She stops and breathes in. This time, she opens the door and waits.