Shadow Work & Darkness
The unhealed parts of you aren't wrong. They are ancestral patterns you adopted as a child in order to cope.
This time of year, the sacred darkness of winter can bring up so much for us.
Our shadows.
Our old patterns.
Old, pent-up emotions and energy.
You may be feeling energies rise to the surface so that you can reflect on what you want to change, heal, and shift as you enter into the new year.
This is the time to shed old skins as we step through the threshold of transformation into a new year.
It’s a time of death and rebirth.
A time for us to reflect and sit with more uncomfortable parts of ourselves and learn to CELEBRATE what they have taught us.
We might feel childhood wounds surface - for the first time or recurring.
Often, what you feel is unhealed within you began as a survival mechanism when you were a child.
Some of these survival mechanisms may include:
Playing nice and appeasing others in order to avoid conflict
Developing perfectionism in order to feel worthy of love, or not receive punishment (as an adult this can turn into a nasty inner voice of self-criticism.)
Bottling up your emotions and opinions, not feeling safe or welcome to express them fully.
Needing to grow up too soon and become the caretaker for a parent, emotionally or otherwise, resulting in always putting others before yourself (martyrdom + codependency)
...and many, MANY more.
We MUST remember on this journey to give ourselves compassion, and nurture the inner child within.
The unhealed parts of you aren’t wrong.
They are ancestral patterns you adopted as a child in order to cope.
Remembering this also brings a deeper sense of compassion to our ancestors.
This includes our parents who are also our ancestors. #truthbomb
Your parents were a result of THEIR ancestors, replaying a pattern that has been repeating for hundreds or thousands of years.
Yet today, because you are here reading this, you have a choice.
So what will you decide?
What will be your mark entering into the new year?
What emotions, energies, or patterns were YOUR biggest teachers this past year?
Your rage is SACRED.
Your grief is a HOLY GIFT.
Here are some to get your gears turning:
Grief is suuuuuch a sacred teacher when you allow it in and gift yourself the experience of it. (This is my greatest teacher, currently. Been moving with her deeeeep.)
Sacred rage is a POWERFUL ally — assisting you in seeing where boundaries have been crossed and where you can ferociously take a stand for your own self-love or your Sacred No.
Your shadow — the parts of you that you fear, hide from yourself, or feel shame around so you’ve buried them deep within — is truthfully a portal that holds powerful healings, codes, lessons, and breakthroughs for you.
These parts of you don’t make you “unspiritual” or “less evolved.”
In fact, being deeply in touch with your darkness is a sign that you are doing your inner work.
For me, it’s a sign I can TRUST a person when I know they are facing their shadows and learning how to dance with them, love them, embrace them, transform them, and accept them… and usually want to make that person my friend.
Your rage is SACRED.
Your grief is a HOLY GIFT.
Your full-spectrum depths hold your greatest power.
The parts of you which you fear hold the keys to your liberation.
What emotions, energies, or patterns were YOUR biggest teachers this past year?
Your rage is sacred. Your grief is a holy gift. Your full- spectrum depths hold in your greatest power.
The parts of which you fear hold the keys to your liberation.
Will you break the cycle?
Are you ready to heal it?
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